Quotations

"Walking is man's best medicine." Hippocrates

"Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man." The Reverend Dr Gaster in Thomas Love Peacock's Headlong Hall

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."  A.A. Milne

“The biggest misfortune in human history is the invention of the combustion engine. Cars and aeroplanes diminish the world, rob it of all its diversity. Young men who meet me want to know how they could do what I've done. But all they can be is tourists now.” Explorer and writer Sir Wilfred Thesiger in1999 speaking to the Washington Post, quoted by Ned Donovan

"The supposed 'far right' charge at the police with wheelie bins and then fall over. The actual far left take over the Labour and Tory Parties, the schools, the police, the churches, the law, the media and the civil service." Peter Hitchens

"Gerald Grosvenor, the 6th Duke of Westminster, when asked by a journalist what advice he’d give to a young entrepreneur hoping to become rich, gave the helpful suggestion: ‘make sure they have an ancestor who was a very good friend of William the Conqueror’." Ed West