Showing posts with label Thomas Carlyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Carlyle. Show all posts

Saturday, 1 October 2011

Quote of the Day

 

'Certainly, the art of writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised.'

Thomas Carlyle.

 

He also said: 'Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist', which is very naughty, and sounds as if it could have been said yesterday.

 

 

Watts George Frederick Portrait of Thomas Carlyle