#cup

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#cup #glass #less #scotland #tea

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#man #noblest #occupation #publication #search

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#another #another man #captures #capturing #continues

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#i #i wish #miser #must #occupying

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#central #europe #find #food #good

People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors. ↗

— John Sweeney

#based #cup #get #merits #people

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#dante #england #france #glory #his

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them. ↗

— August Strindberg

#expect #fellow #fellow men #men #occupation

There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#lands #limited #more #new #soon

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous. ↗

— David Suzuki

#children #connecting #dangerous #dirty #facebook