Some random thoughts of enlightenment and entertainment
“No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop’s Fables: The Lion and the Mouse, ~580BC
“For myself I am an optimist.
It does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
Winston Churchill: Lord Mayor’s Banquet, 1954
“‘Didn’t Frankenstein get married?’
‘Did he?’ said Eggy. ‘I don’t know. Never met him.’
‘Harrow man, I expect.’ “
PG Wodehouse: Laughing Gas, 1936
“Don’t underestimate Gilbert & Sullivan. Or Jilly Cooper.”
Adrian Burford, 2016
“My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.”
Boris Johnson: TIME, 2007
“Non quia difficilia sunt non audemus,
sed quia non audemus difficilia sunt.”
Seneca: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, CIV, ~50AD
“I can’t stand Paris. I hate the place. Full of people talking French, which is a thing I bar. It always seems to me so affected.”
PG Wodehouse: Big Money, 1931
“I seldom go to the opera, it is to music what a
bawdy house is to a cathedral.”
HL Mencken: Letter to Isaac Goldberg, 1925
“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting ‘Heil, Spode!’ and you imagine it “the Voice of the People.” That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: ‘Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?”
PG Wodehouse: The Code of the Woosters, 1938
“All men are cremated equal.”
Spike Milligan