her hair was so long she could sit on it

- On Anne Boleyn 

asylum

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
- Carl Jung

The motto of Paris

"She is tossed by waves, but does not sink."

resistance to modernity

"History is about change - those who like it and those who resist it."
- Drew Faust, President of Harvard University

on holding a grudge ...

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”

- Nelson Mandela

principle

"Accuse the opposition of exactly what you're doing yourself."
- KGB

how to move to Canada

... here.

it goes both ways

"I'm not voting for her. I'm voting against him."
- Frank Luntz focus group participants

exploration

"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."
- Captain James Cook

Bullshitshevik

"Useful idiot."
- Joseph Stalin

Routine

"I wake up at 4:30am and begin drawing by 5am."
- David Adjaye

on Tower Records store clerks

"Everyone was a bit of your friend for 20 minutes or so."
- Bruce Springsteen

unwarranted self-esteem

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
- Bertrand Russell

on misfortune

Baroness Spencer-Churchill:

Perhaps it's a blessing in disguise? 

Sir. Winston Churchill:

It's a damn good disguise!

xièxie

"What you don't wish for yourself, don't do to others."
- Confucius [551-479 BC]

anxiety

Learn more about anxiety here.

shush

"That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. "
- Thomas Hardy

twelve feet for safety

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
- Mark Twain

the oldest UK pub

... here.

why wear socks?

"... when they'd eventually get holes in them."
- Albert Einstein

quaked in the presence of god

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
- John Greenleaf Whittier

simplicity

"If a theory can't be explained to a child, then it's probably useless."
- Albert Einstein 

in vino veritas

"A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts."

- Adage

organized chaos

Cirque du Soleil makes that same amount annually [~ $1 billion] as all of Broadway combined.

implosion

"Never Interfere With an Enemy While He’s in the Process of Destroying Himself."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

food

Brooklyn bar menu generator:

http://www.brooklynbarmenus.com/

departure from the old world

- Lawren Harris, Montreal River [c. 1920]

on sunblock

"Rays today, raisins tomorrow."

iconoclast

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”

- David Foster Wallace

law and legend

"The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power."
- Simon Schama