Famous quotes containing the words central, district, football, club, honour and/or board:
“Its easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
—Rebecca West (18921983)
“Idont enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other peoples amusement. I enjoy it if Im being paid a lot for it.”
—David Storey (b. 1933)
“Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.”
—Jennie June Croly 18291901, U.S. founder of the womans club movement, journalist, author, editor. F, Demorests Illustrated Monthly Mirror of Fashions, pp. 363-4 (December 1870)
“I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thinga sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.”
—Thomas Carlyle (17951881)
“Dont tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or what he submits to from his wife. Simply tell me how he makes his living. It is the safest and surest of all known tests. A man who gets his board and lodging on this ball in an ignominious way is inevitably an ignominious man.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)