Flodden Quotes

#1. Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield!

Walter Scott

#2. Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

Chris Chocola

#3. A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful-then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

William Allingham

#4. I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.

Marianne Faithfull

#5. You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them

D.H. Lawrence

#6. He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides

Gustave Flaubert

#7. All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

Alfred Marshall