Quote of the Day

[Bob]

My granddad smoked and drank daily, but not to excess. He died in his sixties. My other granddad drank evey day and died in his sixties. Nobody directly related to me has lived to seventy. Most drank and smoked. I may as well enjoy this pint....

My grandmother died last year. She smoked like a chimney and watched football all day long. But she lived to be 98!
She was still living in her own house, and she died because of a silly accident: going to the bathroom in the middle of the night, and while she walked down the stairs she did not turn on the light and tripped, which caused her to fall down and break her neck. If it hadn´t been for this, we were sure she would have made 100 ... easily!

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 16th March:

"The object of government in peace and in war
is not the glory of rulers or of races,
but the happiness of the common man."


William Henry Beveridge
(03/05/1879 – 03/16/1963)
India-born English economist

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Something the UK coalition government have forgotten...

[Colin B]

My grandmother died last year.
She smoked like a chimney and watched football all day long.
But she lived to be 98!
She was still living in her own house, and she died because of a silly accident: going to the bathroom in the middle of the night, and while she walked down the stairs she did not turn on the light and tripped, which caused her to fall down and break her neck.
If it hadn´t been for this, we were sure she would have made 100 ... easily!

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[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 17th March:

"You need the willingness to fail all the time.
You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work
very hard only to discover that they don’t work.
And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work."



John W. Backus
(12/03/1924 – 03/17/2007)
US computing pioneer

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I'm still looking...

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 18th March:

"There once was an old man of Lyme
who married three wives at a time
when asked, 'Why a third?'
he replied 'One's absurd!
and bigamy, sir, is a crime!'"


William Cosmo Monkhouse
(03/18/1840 – 07/02/1901)
English writer

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The punishment for bigamy ?

Two mothers-in-law !

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 19th March:

"Remorse is for little children."



Adolph Eichmann
(03/19/1906 – 05/31/1962)
German war criminal

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Evil personified...

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 20th March:

"I was court-martialled in my absence,
and sentenced to death in my absence,
so I said they could shoot me in my absence."


Brendan Behan
(02/09/1923 – 03/20/1964)
Irish writer

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Way to go, Brendan !

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 21st March:

"Give me a room whose every nook
is dedicated to a book."


Robert Southey
(08/12/1774 – 03/21/1843)
English writer

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Does a Kindle count ?

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 22nd March:

"How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome?
It's simple.
I drink the blood of young runaways."



William Shatner
(03/22/1931 – )
Canadian actor

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Well, then there's the hairpiece...

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And, as he's 84 today:

Happy Birthday, William !

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 23rd March:

"If a man works like a horse for his money,
there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path."



Marty Allen
(03/23/1922 – )
US comic

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That's punny, Marty !

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 24th March:

"Education has failed in a very serious way to convey
the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism."



David Suzuki
(03/24/1936 – )
Canadian scientist

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In the UK, David, we spell that 'scepticism'............. but your point is taken...........

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 25th March:

"We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming."



Novalis
(05/02/1772 – 03/25/1801)
German writer

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If you dream that you are dreaming, you might wake up & find you're still asleep...

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 26th March:

"A lie can be halfway round the world
before the truth has got its boots on."


James Callaghan
(03/27/1912 – 03/26/2005)
British PM (47)

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That's the internet for you...

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 27th March:

"It is better to be good than to be original."



Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
(03/27/1886 – 08/17/1969)
German architect

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Trouble is, some Elvis impersonators are neither...

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 28th March:

"I have lost friends, some by death,
others through sheer inability to cross the street."



Virginia Woolf
(01/25/1882 – 03/28/1941)
English writer

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Their inability, Virginia, or yours ?