“Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]”
Chamfort
“Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.”
Joseph Stalin
“Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?”
Lewis Carroll
“There are still parts of Wales where the only concession to gaiety is a striped shroud.”
Gwyn Thomas
“We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone - its value is incontestable”
Joyce Carol Oates
“China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.”
Charles de Gaulle
“Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.”
Edwin Way Teale
