Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (July 7, 2012)
Quality of Life Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long. […]
Quality of Life Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long. […]
A Clear Observation You always hide just in the middle of the limelight. … G.B. Shaw to T.E. Lawrence, who had complained of press attention Inscription on a Tombstone Erected to the memory of […]
Time the Almighty Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. … Horace From the Trivia File The southernmost bridge in New […]
The Great Qualifier “The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ‘but.’” … Henry Ward Beecher Greek Mythology Deianira, the […]
Inadvertent Flattery A good listener is usually thinking about something else. … Kin Hubbard From the Word Lab The word barbarian evolved from the Greek word “barbarous.” It came from the fact that Greeks […]
In Search of Intelligence You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come: Knock as you please, there’s nobody at home. …Alexander Pope Entry in an Autograph Album God made candy God made cake […]
American Proverb Alcohol will preserve anything but a secret. Upon My Word! The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. … Jean Cocteau In Praise of Ribaldry The limerick […]
Trial by Judge It is obvious that “obscenity” is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the courts, it means “anything that shocks the magistrate.” … Bertrand Russell Chinese […]
Achievement Isn’t Everything He has, indeed, done it very well; but it is a foolish thing well done. … Samuel Johnson Russian Proverb A sleeping fox counts hens in his dreams. From the […]
Insider Tips When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen some years ago, I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow […]
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