the oldest UK pub

... here.

why wear socks?

"... when they'd eventually get holes in them."
- Albert Einstein

quaked in the presence of god

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
- John Greenleaf Whittier

simplicity

"If a theory can't be explained to a child, then it's probably useless."
- Albert Einstein 

in vino veritas

"A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts."

- Adage

organized chaos

Cirque du Soleil makes that same amount annually [~ $1 billion] as all of Broadway combined.

implosion

"Never Interfere With an Enemy While He’s in the Process of Destroying Himself."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

food

Brooklyn bar menu generator:

http://www.brooklynbarmenus.com/

departure from the old world

- Lawren Harris, Montreal River [c. 1920]

on sunblock

"Rays today, raisins tomorrow."

iconoclast

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”

- David Foster Wallace

law and legend

"The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power."
- Simon Schama