Witticisms & Aphorisms

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

"Ninety percent of this game is half mental."

"No one heals himself by wounding another" --attributed to St.

What is the best form of government, sir?

"They're [Haitian immigrants] eating the dogs, they're eating the cats."

"I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.'"

"Capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital." -- Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, 1891.

"Easter is the only time of the year it's safe to put all your eggs in one basket."

"I consider and deem as unprofitable instruments those such as the rebecs [a bowed instrument developed from an Arab instrument] and trumpet marines [tromba marina, the subject of this post; a bowed string instrument that sounds like brass]."

💟💟💟 "Love is a many-splendored thing." 💟💟💟 (Songwriter Paul Francis Weber, 1955.) 💟💟💟💟💟 Love is so much more than romantic love.

[An Instagram acquaintance graciously allowed me to put this on the blog] This new year I will strive to be A slightly less than perfect me.

Personally, I hope AI starts feeding on itself and gets caught in it own version of a Möbius loop (strip).

This blog has featured various spoof royal bio-offerings.

"It's clearly a budget, it's got lots of numbers in it."

"Merci, America."

The "courting season" for Regency England began roughly this time of year, so let's hear it for Jane Austen!

"The peace sign is with two fingers not one."

"Not bloody likely!"

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..."

September 2024 marked Prince Harry's 40th birthday.

HAPPY EASTER!

PILATE [to Joseph of Arimathea]: You are a very rich, important man.

"May ya live as long as ya want, and not want as long as ya live" is an Irish toast.

"I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother."

"A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future.