Another selection of recently encountered quotes.
His head was an hourglass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time.
[Mark Twain]
I never forget a face – but in your case I’ll make an exception.
[Groucho Marx]
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
[Oscar Wilde]
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
[Mae West]
The concept that the people running the Brexit campaign would care for the NHS is a rather odd one. I seem to remember Michael Gove wanting to privatise it. Boris wanted to charge people for using it. And Iain Duncan Smith wanted a social insurance system. The NHS is about as safe with them as a pet hamster would be with a hungry python.
[Sir John Major]
The United Kingdom is a friendly nation, regardless of its leaders, sometimes in spite of its leaders.
[Emmanuel Macron]
Never worry about criticism from somebody you wouldn’t take advice from.
[Prof. Chris Whittv]
This objective will be accomplished via provision of effective scientific and administrative leadership; development of efficient, innovative core facilities; recruitment of funded, committed investigators; promotion of interdisciplinary approaches and interactive projects; and promulgation of communication, education and training …
[Quoted by Derek Lowe at https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/novel-approach-new-types-novel-novelty]
On rare occasions I express an opinion here. These are for entertainment only. I do not suggest you adopt my opinions. In fact I caution against it.
[Brad Warner]
An Incomplete List of Things More Capable
of Running the Country than the new Prime Minister
A bollard. A thimble. A beef gravy granule.
A bilge pump. A plectrum. A Pokémon annual.
A doorknob. A chaffinch. A half-eaten carrot.
A footbath. A clothes peg. A Wine stain. John Parrot.
A ceramic spoon holder. A fruit polo mint.
A discarded tissue. A puddle. Some lint.
A used toner cartridge. Some musical socks.
A build up of silt. A stuffed startled fox.
A plimsoll. A wingnut. A set of false teeth.
A novelty wall clock with the face of Prue Leith.
A beetle. A drumlin. A short piece of string.
A packet of Wotsits. A plant pot. Most things.
[Brian Bilston]
Everyone is wrong about everything all the time. Even me. Even you.
[Brad Warner]