"Aesop's Fly, sitting on the axle of the chariot, has been much laughed at for exclaiming: What a dust I do raise!"
About Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. Known as the "sage of Chelsea", his writings strongly influenced the intellectual and artistic culture of the Victorian era.
View full profileGet a daily quote
A new thought from history's greatest minds, every morning.
More on #humor
"I wouldn’t wear a tie-dyed tee-shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia."
— Kurt Cobain
"How to get along with relatives and all those persons with whom I come in contact."
— Frank Crane
"I hate and despise a shrewish suspicion of foreigners and foreign ways; a man who can look me in the face, laugh with me, speak truth and de…"
— H. G. Wells
"The American system of management, in my opinion, also relies too much on outsiders to help make business decisions., and this is because of…"
— Akio Morita
"There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscop…"
— Kevin Kelly (editor)