My Small Boat

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Octopusses
I don’t know what the fuss is,
Cooking’s easy if you try.
Just take two octopusses
And you’ve got an octopi.

…Sir Isaac Newton, renowned inventor of the milled-edge coin and the catflap!” “The what?” said Richard. “That catflap! A device of the utmost cunning, perspicuity and invention. It is a door within a door, you see, a …” “Yes,” said Richard, “there was also the small matter of gravity.” “Gravity,” said Dirk with a slightly [...]

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it…
Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

Here is the body pent
Absent from him I roam
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day’s march nearer home