"The whole religious complexion ot the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."
Henry Ellis
If you don't fall off from time to time, you're not going hard enough..
13yr old son - as I sit in radiology waiting for a scan
Select to expand quotecisco said..
"The whole religious complexion ot the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."
Henry Ellis
Still do not understand the meaning of the quote.
Select to expand quotePcdefender said..cisco said..
"The whole religious complexion ot the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."
Henry Ellis
Still do not understand the meaning of the quote.
My interpretation... If there was a mad house in Jerusalem during it's formative years, the foundation of Judeo-Christian religions that we witness today would have been nipped in the bud long ago to pass into oblivion with the minds that created them. But there wasn't & here we are.
well the quote is obviously wrong, "The whole modern world" has a lot more than Judeo-Christian religions. some probably pre-dating it even
Select to expand quotedecrepit said..
well the quote is obviously wrong, "The whole modern world" has a lot more than Judeo-Christian religions. some probably pre-dating it even
The info within the quote might be bias or incorrect but the quote itself is correct. Although I believe it's by Havelock, not Henry, Ellis. Cheers
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. Henry Ellis. (I am getting these from my Concise Dictionary of Quotations.)
Put another way, the perfection of perfection is imperfection.
Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?? Mae West
Also, Goodness, what beautiful diamonds. reply Goodness had nothing to do with it.
An intelligent Russian once remarked "Every country has it's own constitution; ours is absolutism moderated by assassination." Anon.
