#gall

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#broken #drink #eat #galling #government

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#estate #fourth #gallery #realm #reporters

We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing. ↗

— William H. Macy

#emotionally #even #free #huge #huge thing

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#back #between #bit #characters #counted

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#art #baseness #beauty #best #best part

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#better #gall #seventy #than

An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid. ↗

— Gary Miller

#american worker #because #comes #country #cut

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion. ↗

— Moliere

#every #frenchmen #gallantry #indulge #occasion

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#beauty #cities #gallant #grim #mad

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#any #gallery #go #having #just