Quotations

“Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up". Oscar Wilde

"Like the old Austro-Hungarian empire, the EU continues because it cannot be either reformed or replaced." Robert Tombs

"The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age.... And so, lastly, does the name itself of Catholic, which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house." St Augustine

“It’s all been rather lovely.” John Le Mesurier's last words. Two of his wives betrayed him, the first was an alcoholic but so I suspect was he.

"Drugs are instead of people." Eric Berne