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Are you one of these emancipated women we’re having so much trouble with at home?

-Kenneth More’s character to Lauren Bacall’s in North West Frontier

After a hundred years in a vault, Mark Twain’s autobiography is soon to be published. Memo to self: remember to achieve something significant enough in your life that anyone will be interested in reading about you a century later…

It sounds, though, as if the renewed interest in him may be a mixed blessing, which reminds me of a little poem I learned as a child:

Lives of Great Men all remind us
As we o’er their pages turn
That we too may leave behind us
Letters that we ought to burn.

…is a snippet from Frank Zappa:

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth.

In the beginning there was nothing. God said “Let there be light.” Now there was nothing, but you could see it better.

Seen on Twitter – thanks to @weirdralph

“Wealth”, said H.L.Mencken a long time ago, “is any income which is at least $100 more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.”

Another one from Dr Seuss:

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

“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’

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

- anon

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

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.

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.

George Bernard Shaw’s epitaph:

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