Quotation of the day

[Brian Ellis]

Brings us down to earth!

A million million spermatozoa,
All of them alive:
Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah
Dare hope to survive.

And among that billion minus one
Might have chanced to be
Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne
But the One was Me.
Aldous Huxley Fifth Philosopher’s Song (1920)

[TransformX]

Loved Brave new world.

[Brian Ellis]

The greater the wealth, the thicker will be the dirt.
J.K. Galbraith The Affluent Society (1958) ch. 18, sect. 2

Thank God, I'm poor!

[Brian Ellis]

The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.
Ken Livingstone, The Times 19 Feb. 1987