“I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!” MenShouldWarPoorLordSeeingMankindKingsDiseaseShould HaveDoctorsWingsSorryPhilosopherWitInventionPostsGreat MenDivinityPerpetualRhetoricMetaphysicalFeverBumpsBruisedI Am SorryAm SorryHigh RoadPoxSohoPerpetual WarShuttlecock Author:Erasmus Darwin
“But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion of his Lordship: "I can only say that I am amazed that a man of my intelligence should have been guilty of giving such an opinion". If there are other ways of gracefully and good-naturedly surrendering former views to a better considered position, I invoke them all.” IfsMenWayGivingShouldHas BeensSaidI CanSelfViewsLordOpinionTakenPositionShould HaveGuiltyFormerAmazedRelianceShould Have BeenInvokeLordshipBarristers Author:Robert H. Jackson
“Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big.” PeopleShouldLooksHas BeensFactsBigsBitsLordEatingShould HaveWeightHotScreensButtonsShockedShould Have BeenRadar Book:Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee Source: Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee
“O God of our fathers, and Lord of mercy, who has made all things with your word, and ordained man through your wisdom, that he should have dominion over the creatures which you have made, give me wisdom that sits by your throne so that I might understand what is your will and be saved. For I am your servant. Amen.” MenGivingShouldMadeMightFatherChristianityLordCreaturesAll ThingsShould HaveMercyGive MeSavedServantThronesOur FatherDominionAmen Author:Cyril of Jerusalem
“Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.” ShouldYearsWellsMadeSaidHouseLordOughtStonesShould HaveRoundsLegsNobleNosesNonsensePigsCastlesProvincesPorkSpectaclesBest House Book:The Portable Voltaire Source: The Portable Voltaire
“A friend ... said, "You were healed by faith." "Oh, no," I said, "I was healed by Christ." What is the difference? There is a great difference. There came a time when even faith seemed to come between me and Jesus. I thought I should have to work up the faith, so I laboured to get the faith. At last I thought I had it; that if I put my whole weight upon it, it would hold. I said, when I thought I had got the faith, "Heal me." I was trusting in myself, in my own heart, in my own faith. I was asking the Lord to do something for me because of something in me, not because of something in Him.” IfsShouldHeartSaidWholeLastsJesusChristDifferencesMy OwnLordShould HaveWeightAskingHealHealed Author:A. B. Simpson