Mark Churchill and his friend Jessica blew through with the wind this weekend, and a good time was had by all. Which of course made me check his blog Flyover Country, where I discovered photos, hawking, links and the following absolutely true quote, from Jessica: “God made Australia so that most of the world’s most …
Tag: Quote of the Day
Quote for the (dismal late sleeting) day:
From Annie Davidson, quoting from Ron Swanson on fishing: “It’s like yoga, except I still get to kill something.” Neither of us know who Swanson is. But I particularly like that “still”…
(Early) Quote of the day
“I like reading; I am especially fond of reading old books in poor condition by odd people.” (English gun writer Diggory Hadoke, courtesy of reader Tom Condon)
A quote
From Johnny UK: “When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading” — Henny Youngman
Q o’ D
(On racing and boxing, grumpy): “Riding horses to exhaustion and punching each other in the face under agreed rules are worthwhile and manly pastimes, far better pedigreed and infinitely more exciting than hitting balls with sticks, tossing leather bags across a field, or chasing a puck around on ice.” John Derbyshire
Q o’ D: Barbarians
We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond: …
Q o’ D
“The plural of anecdote is not data.” (Patrick Sweeney in G & A, attributing it to an engineering prof, though it is everywhere applicable…)
Quote of the Day
(From Jonathan Hanson): The countryside is a soggy sort of place where animals and birds wander about uncooked – Gladys Mitchell
One More Quote
Tired but can’t resist. From Churchill: “Never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing great or small, large or petty — never give in.”