Hand Axe Handle Quotes

#1. In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.

Howard Jacobson

#2. Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

Walter Bagehot

#3. Consider these current rough estimates: Each day, we compose 154 billion e-mails, more than 500 million tweets on Twitter, and over 1 million blog posts and 1.3 million blog comments on WordPress alone. On Facebook, we write about 16 billion words per day. That's just in the United States:

Clive Thompson

#4. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.

David Starkey

#6. Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this."
"Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish."
"God, you're the best," I told him.
"I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered.

John Green

#7. You have to put your body on the line from time to time in order to make a statement or change a law.

Paul Stookey

#8. I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

Dan Wakefield

#9. Exxon Mobil and JPMorgan Chase each made more in profits in the first quarter of 2012 alone than the entire state budget of Montana. Without a doubt, multinational corporations like these have the resources to overwhelm the voices of the people.

Eric Schneiderman