Swaby Tote Quotes

#1. In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole topped by the revolutionary red bonnet.

Victor Hugo

#2. Civic life, though, was not optional, and Aristotle tells me the Athenians had a word for those who refused to participate in public affairs: idiotes. It is where we get our word idiot.

Eric Weiner

#3. They (Medievalists) are soft, dreamy people who find life too hard for them here and get lost in an ideal world of the past that never really existed.

Isaac Asimov

#4. Flatterers should be mistrusted, especially when they praise the dead. To seek a place in society is self-serving, but to seek one in history affects everyone.

Bauvard

#5. The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

Alexander Pope

#6. I hope that people can't see into my soul, it would hurt them too much

D.M. Sharp

#7. I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

John Dyer

#8. I think my first love is film. There's something about the span of it and the completion of the experience. You sit down for two hours, in the dark, and you go somewhere else, and then you come back, having completed a journey.

Jon Spaihts