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A few Wodehouse gems:

Good God, Clarence! You look like a bereaved tapeworm.

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.


“The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government.”

– Ruth Bader Ginsburg


Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

-James Baldwin

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It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

~ Unknown


As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

~ Dick Cavett


“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”
― Roy T. Bennett

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What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

~ Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, #1615, March 2010

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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

~ Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)


“Anger is a seed for war. Forgiveness is a seed for peace.” Eva Kor

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it's only after we correctly pigeonhole everyone based on our perceptions of them will the earth return to its former flat greatness

~ rookie54

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"For you, Hogan, the war is over!" - Klink


Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

(And hopefully we learned something 😉 )

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"Not on my watch." (a favourite expression)


“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
― Herman Hesse

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@how-ntl removed their quoted post
I believe you may want to follow your own advice! 😉

-VR

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