"Hungry men are not known for their patience or their kindness."
- Karen Essex
"The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the application of machinery, the ..."
- Thomas Henry Huxley
"The locust has no kingJust noise and hard languageThey talk me over"
- David Eugene Edwards
"Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young - and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, the Arrow that strikes, the Sea that drowns, the Gr..."
- Wilkie Collins
"This is the body's nurse; but since man's witFound the art of cookery, to delight his sense,More bodies are consumed and kill'd with itThan with the sword, famine, or pestilence."
- John Davies of Hereford