
“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”
Lyrics, A Crow Left of the Murder... (2004)
“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”
“Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 66
Source: Pendragon Before The War: Book Two Of The Travelers (Pendragon
Remarks to a friend on his death bed, quoted in J. A. Spender, The Life of The Right Hon. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, G.C.B. Vol. II (1923), p. 407
Prime Minister
“He can't even shoot straight.”
On his son Yakov’s suicide attempt, as quoted in Encyclopedia of Useless Information (2007) by William Harston
Contemporary witnesses