Wit & Wisdom

"The only thing worse than being wrong in politics is
being dull." Richard Nixon, quoted in The Sunday Telegraph
"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet." Edward Thomas, quoted in The Times
"A woman only worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man
never worries about the future until he gets a wife." Adage quoted in The Daily Telegraph
"When an old man dies a library burns down." can proverb, quoted in The Times


"Intellectuals are like the Mafia: they only kill their own." Woody Allen, quoted in The Sunday Telegraph
"She smells the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight." Raymond Chandler, quoted in The Observer
"For most men, an ignorant enjoyment is better than an informed one; it is better to conceive the sky as a blue dome than a dark cavity; and the cloud as a golden throne than a
sleety mist.n John Ruskin, quoted in The Times