Showing posts with label Vices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vices. Show all posts

Friday, April 1, 2011

Remember this

... if you feel guilty when you eat cake. Somewhere, someone is having a birthday.

Anon.

Friday, December 17, 2010

To be precise

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

Imelda Marcos



Saturday, October 16, 2010

Hung over?

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.

Kingsley Amis
 

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Informed taste?


It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.


James Thurber

Friday, September 10, 2010

Yield to temptation.


It may not pass your way again.

Robert A. Heinlein     

Sunday, June 6, 2010

No thanks

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Rita Mae Brown

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Sobering thought?

This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought.  

Samuel Johnson

Monday, January 25, 2010

Well considered?




When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.


Mae West


Monday, October 26, 2009

Everybody is a potential murderer....



...I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

Clarence Darrow

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Get lucky?

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Anon.

Friday, October 2, 2009

Get crazy


I'm going to throw caution to the winds and have a sweet sherry.

Alan Bennett.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

TTD?


Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Jane Yolen

Monday, September 14, 2009

Start the day right

If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

It is immoral to get drunk...

...because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.

Samuel Butler

Friday, August 7, 2009

In case you were wondering


Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.

Barbara Pym

Friday, July 31, 2009

Book lust?

Libraries are brothels for the mind, librarians are the madams, greeting customers, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping books.

Guy Browning, The Guardian, October 18, 2003.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Expect nothing....

Live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walker
 
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