Tag: general knowledge

"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow." "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable." "The more one works, the more willing one is to work.”

"Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in." "If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. "

Thank you for your e-mail. This Internet of yours is a wonderful invention. "In my sentences I go where no man has gone before...I am a boon to the English language."