Henry Mayhew Quotes

#1. Learn the changes, then forget them.

Charlie Parker

#2. We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

Henry Mayhew

#3. Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

David Mamet

#4. In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.

Henry Mayhew

#5. But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.

Henry Mayhew

#6. The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

Henry Mayhew

#7. Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.

Henry Mayhew

#8. Mint-street and Kent-street--those old plague-spots that disgrace and disfigure the fair face of the Borough of Southwark--teem with blackguardism and vice; but here, too, you find that the birds who here flock are strictly of a feather. Cow-cross,

Henry Mayhew

#9. Advice to persons about to marry - don't.

Henry Mayhew

#10. The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.

Henry Mayhew

#11. It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.

Henry Mayhew

#12. We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person ... the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.

Oswald Chambers

#13. Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.

Henry Mayhew

#14. Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

Zach Galifianakis

#15. True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

Michel De Montaigne

#16. I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling.

Henry Mayhew

#17. A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

Henry Mayhew

#18. Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.

Henry Mayhew

#19. To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity.

Alan W. Watts

#20. The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it.

Henry Mayhew

#21. Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

Horace

#22. The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief.

Colm Toibin

#23. So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

Gray Davis

#24. A man who needs the unusual to make him "wonder" shows that he has lost the capacity to find the true answer to the wonder of being. The itch for sensation, even though disguised in the mask of Boheme, is a sure indication of a bourgeois mind and a deadened sense of wonder.

Josef Pieper

#25. I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

Chuck Palahniuk

#26. The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

Henry Mayhew

#27. There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.

Henry Mayhew

#28. We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.

Henry Mayhew