Gibbets Quotes

#1. ... The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader.

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

Edward Young

#3. Not for the first time, Peter thought about how much of our lives we spend sequestered inside small patches of electric brightness, blind to everything beyond the reach of those fragile bulbs.

Michel Faber

#4. If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

Henry Rollins

#5. Ones own soul, and the passions of one's friends - those were the fascinating things in life.

Oscar Wilde

#6. Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast.

Patience Gray

#7. Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

Joseph Addison

#8. What is that thing? It looks like a model of the human digestive tract made from broken beer bottles and sadness.

Robert Kroese

#9. Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations General Assembly, travel in your own plane, plenty of cash, even job security - whether kings, sheiks or presidents, with or without elections, most serve for life.

Elliott Abrams

#10. a silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read.

Sanober Khan

#11. It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

Michael Chabon

#12. There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure.

Peter Jackson

#13. Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ...

Carl Sagan

#14. People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.

Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn