“The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.” Continue reading
Category Archives: History
Sir William Preece on the Telephone
Helen Keller on Knowledge
“Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge – broad, deep knowledge – is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man’s progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.” Continue reading
Aristotle on Politics
“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.” Continue reading
William Shakespeare on Honesty
“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.” Continue reading
King Farouk of Egypt on Politics
“The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left–the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.” Continue reading
Anonymous Quote
“Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.” Continue reading
Thomas Sowell on History and Society
“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” Continue reading
King Solomon on Value
“Good people are remembered long after they are gone, but the wicked are soon forgotten.” Continue reading
Robertson Davies on Future
“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.” Continue reading
Winston Churchill on Democracy
“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” Continue reading