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There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.
– Saki (aka H. Munro).
If you have not read any Saki, well you should repair that omission immediately. Many people, including PG Wodehouse, Noel Coward, Evelyn Waugh and others were inspired by the brilliant, cruel wit of Saki. I have my old friend and intellectual mentor, the late Chris R. Tame, to thank for encouraging me to read Saki. If you are ever in need of cheering up, read any one of Saki’s short stories. Absolute magic.
That [Sarkozy] appears clueless as to the functional benefits of speculation is not surprising – politicians are generally clueless. It’s his idea that a bunch of politicians could ‘reinforce the morality’ of anything I find truly gobsmacking! A mob of used car salesmen would do a better job…
– Commenter Sean
Kissing the jackboot gets you kicked, not loved
– Triinu Saar
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
– Mark Twain
Is using perfectly legal methods of minimising tax right? The answer is no.
– Andrew Pendleton, a senior campaigner at Christian Aid
Really, if The Economist is going to opine on this sort of thing, its writers need to know something on the subject.
– Glenn Reynolds
The threat posed by humans to the natural environment is nothing compared to the threat to humans posed by global environmental policy
– Fred L. Smith
When you hear the word ‘inspectorate’, expectorate.
It felt like a lion being savaged by Christians
– Madsen Pirie, when asked how it felt to be the only one in a room offering strongly dissenting opinions from the usual statist consensus.
Depending on the deals, could we see personnel queuing up to be arrested by the Iranians so that they could subsequently sell their story?
– ‘Lilotes’
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
– Voltaire, without a doubt one of the greatest Frenchmen who have lived. His novel, Candide, with its great character Dr Pangloss, reads as fresh today as when it was written two centuries and a half ago.
Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
P.J. O’Rourke
I was reminded of this remark while watching the final stages of the The Masters. Britain’s Justin Rose is currently just behind the leader. One of these days, I tell myself, I am going to pay a visit to Augusta and soak up the atmosphere.
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