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61 " Lord of lords! "
62 " Wintry it ain't- no complaints! Snowier: Storefronts are showier, light displays glowier. Shoppers are prowling, blizzard howling! Drifts a-heaping, lords a-leaping, Yule logs burning, gifts returning. Winds are keen for 2015! "
― The Old Farmer's Alamanac
63 " Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary. "
64 " The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly. "
65 " The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for 5 days. "
66 " The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels. "
67 " The British House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians. "
68 " I'll fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay Princes and Lords may flourish or may fade - A breath can make them as a breath has made - But a bold peasantry their country's pride When once destroy'd can never be supplied. "
69 " Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the great policies of world history, " the wheels of the world" , are often turned not by the Lords and Governors, even gods, but by the seemingly unknown and weak'. Such a worldview is inherent in the fairy-tale (and Christian) idea of the happy ending in which the dispossessed are restored to joy; but perhaps Tolkien was also struck by the way it had been borne out in the Great War, when ordinary people stepped out of ordinary lives to carry the fate of nations. "
70 " Gregor flushed as he went on: " The entire content of the Confesions could be put into one single sentence in the book: when Augustine addresses God, saying: 'Thou hast made us for Thyself and our heart is unquiet until it rests in Thee.' This sentence, my lords and friends, is immortal. It contains the very heart of religion. "
71 " I do strongly believe myself that members of the government who sit in the House of Lords should be accountable to the elected House because otherwise there is a democratic deficit, and that is wrong. "
