Category Archives: Quotes

Quote of the day

Another one from Dr Seuss:

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”

Quote of the day

“Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”


Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as ‘Dr Seuss’

Quote of the day

If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

– anon

Quote of the day

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

– Jack Handey

Oscar nomination

Today’s quotation comes from Oscar Wilde…

To be really mediaeval one should have no body.
To be really modern one should have no soul.
To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

Quote of the day

This one is from W.H. Auden:

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don’t know.

Quote of the day

George Bernard Shaw’s epitaph:

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

“We read to know that we’re not alone”

Sorry things have been fairly quiet here of late. I’ve reached a sort of email event horizon where messages that require action or response are arriving faster than I can act or respond to them. After that you go into a kind of tailspin…

The quotation, by the way, is from C.S.Lewis. For your contemplation.

Quote of the day

The origin of this is unknown but I came across it in the documentation for some project-management software:

One cannot bring a baby into the world in one month by getting nine women pregnant at the same time.

Quote of the day

This one is of unknown origin, though I found it in one of Daniel C. Dennett’s books.

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.

Keeping romance at bay, the Chinese way

“Four students will be grouped together to perform the waltz and they will change partners regularly as soon as one song finishes. This way, the risk of young love will be lowered.”

BBC story here.

Set in our ways

Why do you do what you do?

I like this story, which I’ve seen attributed to David Byrne:

A woman is asked why she cuts the ends off a ham before baking it.

She explains that her mom always did so.

Her mom explains that she learned it from grandma.

And grandma says, “Silly, my pan was too short for the entire ham.”

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