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Thomas Carlyle22 quotes
The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle · 1840"A fair day's-wages for a fair day's work:" it is as just a demand as Governed men ever made of Governing. It is the everlasting right of man. — Thomas Carlyle · 1843It is not what a man outwardly has or wants that constitutes the happiness or misery of him. Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men. — Thomas Carlyle · 1840Burke said there were three estates in parliament; but, in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all. — Thomas Carlyle · 1840Not a "gay science," I should say, like some we have heard of; no, a dreary, desolate, and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one: what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science. — Thomas Carlyle · 1849Cash Payment has become the sole nexus of man to men! — Thomas Carlyle · 1840All 22 quotes →Allan Cunningham1 quote
A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
A wind that follows fast
And fills the white and rustling sail
And bends the gallant mast. — Allan Cunningham · 1850Hugh MacDiarmid1 quote
The inward gates of a bird are always open.
It does not know how to shut them.
That is the secret of its song,
But whether any man's are ajar is doubtful. — Hugh MacDiarmid · 1934John Paul Jones1 quote
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. — John Paul Jones · 1778