I don't want to express an opinion. You see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Gerald Kersh (1911-1968)
British author, journalist
H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
English author, social thinker
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
American journalist
John Milton (1608-1674)
English poet
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
British novelist
anonymous
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Anglo-Irish satirist
Joyce Cary (1888-1957)
British novelist
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
English statesman, author
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
German philosopher
Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
English poet
John Milton (1608-1674)
English poet
Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729)
English essayist, dramatist, editor
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
German philosopher
G. D. Leonard (b. 1921)
Bishop of London
1983
Christopher Morley (1890-1957)
American novelist, journalist
Moliere (1622-1673)
French playwright
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
English poet
Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946)
Hamlet, Hamlet
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Woody Allen (b. 1935)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
American philosopher, author, naturalist
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Martin Luther King (1929-1968)
W. R. Inge (1860-1954)
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
English cleric
from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
trans. Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883)
J. A. Primo de Rivera (1903-1936)
Spanish Falangist politician
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
English poet
George Eliot (1819-1880)
English novelist
Gautama the Buddha (c. 560-c. 480 BC)
Joseph Heller (b. 1923)
American novelist
Anatole France (1844-1924)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Ralph G. Ingersoll (1833-1899)
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Woody Allen (b. 1935)
Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
English author
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
Susan Ertz (1894-1985)
Andre Maurois (1885-1967)
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
Swedish statesman, Secretary-General of UN
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Anglo-Irish satirist
Socrates (469-399 BC)
Greek philosopher
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi (b. 1938)
Libyan leader
Jean Rostand (1894-1977)
Stendhal (1783-1842)
French author
Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
French writer
John Chrysostom (345-407)
Greek ecclesiast, hermit
Thomas Reid (1710-1796)
David Jenkins (b. 1925)
A. H. Clough (1819-1861)
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
English novelist
Lily Tomlin (b. 1939)
Father John Lafarge (b. 1880)
of the cures of Lourdes
Erich Fromm (1900-1980)
H. E. Fosdick (1878-1969)
American Baptist minister
Bishop Desmond Tutu (b. 1932)
Subhadra Bhikshu (b. d. 1917)
author of The Buddhist Way
Alan Watts (1915-1973)
George Gallup (1901-1984)
Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936)
Spanish philosopher, poet, novelist
William Blake (1757-1827)
English poet, artist
Saint Augustine (354-430)
theologian
Martin Luther King (1929-1968)
Joseph Ernest Renan (1823-1892)
J. B. S. Haldane (1892-1964)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
English author
Jean, The Entertainer
John Osborne (b. 1929)
British playwright
Eden Philpotts (1862-1960)
British author
Christopher Morley (1890-1957)
American novelist, journalist
Saint Paul (3-67)
Apostle to the Gentiles
Edward Young (1683-1765)
English poet, playwright
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
French poet, dramatist, novelist
H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
English author, social thinker
epitaph on a gravestone
Woody Allen (b. 1935)
American filmmaker
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
British statesman, writer
on the eve of his 75th birthday
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
Welsh poet
Cornelius Nepos (b. 1st century BC)
Roman historian, biographer
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
American novelist
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
German philosopher
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Russian novelist, philosopher
on his deathbed, answering pleas that he
should return to the Church
Helen Hayes
Guideposts, January 1960