Economic Consequences of the Peace
They [parliament] are a lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.
Beecher Henry Ward 1813-1887
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ‘but'.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
Journal, 1813
The more I see of men, the less I like them. If I could but say so of women too, all would be well.
Chesterton G.K. 1874-1936
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of
fame and money, but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.
Dudek Louis
There are two kinds of people: those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievements from the second.
George IV King 1762-1830
(on first meeting his wife to be)
Harris, I am not well; pray get me a glass of brandy.
Gilbert W.S. 1836-1911
Iolanthe
The House of Peers, throughout the war,
Did nothing in particular,
And did it very well.
Julian of Norwich 1343-after 1416
Revelations of Divine Love
Sin is behovely, but all shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
Martial AD c.40-c.104
Epigrammata
Life's not just being alive, but being well.
Michelangelo 1474-1564
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Milne A.A. 1882-1956
When We Where Very Young ‘Rice Pudding'
What is the matter with Mary Jane?
She's perfectly well and she hasn't a pain,
And it's lovely rice pudding for dinner again!
What is the matter with Mary Jane.
Philip Prince, Duke of Edinburgh 1921-
I think our children have all done rather well under very demanding circumstances.
Punch 1841-1992
Nearly all our best men are dead! Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning,
George Eliot! - I'm not feeling very well myself.
Rockefeller 3rd John D. 1906-1978
Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life, so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out; it takes much more courage to listen.
Sontag Susan 1933-
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone
who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in
the kingdom of the sick.