Fire It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port. - Henry Mayhew
The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it. - Henry Mayhew
The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them. - Henry Mayhew
The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis. - Henry Mayhew
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings. - Henry Mayhew
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. - H. G. Wells
I remember when I did the pilot, and I though no network is going to want to do this. How could that happen? A half Chinese guy walking the old west that doesn't fire one gun and never gets on a horse? - David Carradine
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? - Erma Bombeck
You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - Franklin P. Jones
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port. - Henry Mayhew