My Small Boat

I rang them up whilst touring Timbuctoo,
Those bosom chums to whom you’re known as “Who?”

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.

No fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.

To a Goose
If thou didst feed on western plains of yore;
Or waddle wide with flat and flabby feet
Over some Cambrian mountain’s plashy moor;
Or find in farmer’s yard a safe retreat
From gipsy thieves, and foxes sly and fleet;
If thy grey quills, by lawyer guided, trace
Deeds big with ruin to some wretched race,
Or love-sick poet’s sonnet, sad [...]

Simplicate, then add lightness
Colin Chapman was the founder of Lotus cars and the Team Lotus Formula 1 team.