Quotes Archive

The human race is divided into beings animate and beings inanimate. Up to this very day, the inanimate ruled the world. The roaming, rational, resourceful, bipedal, vertebrate, mammalian, inanimate beings. They shared all the characteristics of humans, with the sole exception of a soul. We are at a turning point so critical:

La destinée des nations dépend de la manière dont elles se nourrissent (The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat) ― Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Favorite1

God first made England, Ireland and Scotland. Then, when he corrected his mistakes, he made Wales. — Katharine Hepburn 2.47 Favorite1

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise. — Kurt Vonnegut Favorite0

In a list of ‘moves designed to piss lots of people off’, banning coffee in Turkey probably ranks somewhere alongside banning cheese in France, banning guns in America and … well, banning national stereotyping in Britain. ― Tom Phillips, Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up Favorite0

The best thing about the English – you’re so domesticated. All standing around, apologising, keeping your little heads down. You can do what you like here ! No-one’s ever going to stop you. You’re a nation of herbivores. — Sherlock III, Episode 3 FINAL Favorite0

The English in Greece—a sorry lot, by the way—seem to have a poor opinion of the Greek character. The English are torpid, unimaginative, lacking in resiliency. They seem to think that the Greeks should be eternally grateful to them because they have a powerful fleet. The Englishman in Greece is a farce

The Condum being the best, if not only Preservative our Libertines have found out at present; and yet by reason of its blunting the Sensation, I have heard some of them acknowledge, that they had often chose to risk a Clap, rather than engage cum Hastis sic clypeatis [with spears thus sheathed].

A number of porcupines huddled together for warmth on a cold day in winter; but, as they began to prick one another with their quills, they were obliged to disperse. However the cold drove them together again, when just the same thing happened. At last, after many turns of huddling and dispersing,

Ethnobotanist and hallucinogenic scion Terrence McKenna said in one of his lectures that, “Culture is your operating system.” Through hallucinogenic drugs, McKenna posited, one could shed that operating system for a time and gain union with nature, other humans, and even an ancient mode of thinking which could give us insight into