This week’s collection seems to be a slightly skew-ways look at people …

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
[Robert Benchley]

I grew convinc’d that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life.
[Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin]

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
[George Carlin]

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
[Lucretius]

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
[HL Mencken]

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but can not remember her age.
[Robert Frost]

… isolated cabins on chilly mountains, whose only mark on history is to be the incredibly ordinary place where something extraordinary started to happen. Often there is no more than a little plaque to reveal that, against all gynaecological probability, someone very famous was born halfway up a wall.
[Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites]

You’re not 40, you have 06:00 with 22 years of experience.
[Anonymous]