I’ll spare everyone another picture of Rye or the Romney Marsh today and instead I offer this week’s crop of amusing and/or thought-provoking quotes.
Plan B and Arcade Fire get Q nods
[BBC News website headline]We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
[Lily Tomlin]Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
[Antoine de Saint-Exupery]Balnea, vina, Venus corrumpunt corpora nostra; sed vitam faciunt balnea, vina, Venus.
Baths, wine and sex spoil our bodies; but baths, wine and sex make up life.
[Epitaph of Tiberius Claudius Secundus]Inside every old person is a younger person wondering what the fuck happened.
[unknown]Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.
[Aristophanes, The Knights]Leadership is a form of mental illness.
[Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert]
Oh and I thought I’d spare you more from the Dalai Lama on Compassion – that’s all he seems to talk about at the moment, although I do see why as that is largely, at rock bottom, what Buddhism is all about.
I love your quotes.Here is another Lily Tomlin"Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them."
Like it; thanks Basil!