“If you’re afraid of being spoiled by success, get a job in weather forecasting”
In a BC Transit publication called The Buzzer Jan. 14, 1994
“Ambrose Bierce wrote of an inventor who built a moon rocket. When he fired it up, it bored straight down into the earth. A while later he crawled up out of the hole, and triumphantly announced, ‘My invention has proved correct in all its details; the defects are merely basic and fundamental!’ … whereupon the investors rushed forward to press money on him for the next attempt.”
Spider Robinson in Globe & Mail April 27, 1999
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde in Lady Windemere's Fan [https://idiomorigins.org/origin/knows-the-price-of-everything-the-value-of-nothing and widely quoted online though often as “A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”]
I was a French Werewolf by Lou Garew.
Another of my supposedly funny invented “Who Wrote What” book titles, January 2024
I Was a Chinese Werewolf by Ah Wu.
One of my invented “Who Wrote What” book titles, January 2024
“It left me speechful.”
Me Jan. 1 2024 when someone on an Antiques Road Show clip on YouTube said a valuation of a painting left him speechless which I almost never am.
“Colin O’Scopie, proctologist”
Me Feb. 13, 2024 [invented not a real person].
She’s deploring the reflex (when someone fails to say “Thank You” when you hold a door) of feeling “exasperated – but, crucially, not surprised…. ‘Typical!’ you say. As Kate Fox points out, ‘Typical!’ is one of our default modes… The ‘Typical!’ response is actually quite self-flattering, of course. It suggests that fate can never wrong-foot us because we are always prepared for the worst or most unlikely event. ‘So then my sister-in-law had a sex change and went off to live in Krakatoa. Typical!’ we exclaim. ‘So then they started bombing Baghdad. Typical!’ ‘The cat turned out to be a reincarnation of a seventh-century Chinese prophet. Typical!’”
Lynne Truss Talk to the Hand