The Gulf States and Saudi Arabia are modernizing but at a glacial speed in a world moving at digital speed.

Do you think, do you really think, if Betty Finn's fairy godmother made her cool, she'd still act nice and hang with her dweebette friends? No way! Uh-uh!

What shall I say of these immense Necropoleis, or Cities of the Dead, where the same care and labour were employed to embellish death, as other nations have bestowed on the adornment of life? Such an architecture could have sprung up only among a people filled with the idea of immortality, and in whose eyes earthly existence was but a fleeting passage to a future life.

[…] our army all should wear a new uniform; all our horse infantry should wear air jackets, and all our foot cavalry should wear cork waistcoats; and then ye know why they’d be all over the sea before you could say Jack Robinson.