“One wondering thought pollutes the day”

“This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“London used to be reasonably priced, clean, and a decent place to live. These days it's polluted and utterly unbearable”

Munir Butt (1940–2015) British diplomat

“It is not a very interesting night market, anyway. No wonderful things are sold there, though often one wonders, next day, how one could have bought them…”

Avram Davidson (1923–1993) novelist

“This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.”

John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs

“Yet should there hover in their restless heads
One thought, one grace, one wonder at the least,
Which into words no virtue can digest.”

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator

“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.”

Saul Bellow book Herzog

“Oh, for heaven's sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It's no wonder I haven't been able to keep my hands off the blasted man since the day I met him. He's an artifact! A Celtic one at that!”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

“It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air!”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States