Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful.... →
Jill Lepore
Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.
Edward M. Lerner
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows... →
Michael Leunig
Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as we lose all the... →
The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine... →
Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
Oscar Levant
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
I had to dance in a Tweety Bird costume once.
Margarita Levieva
Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will... →
Bernard Levin