All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The four first acts already past,
A fifth shall close the drama with the day:
Time’s noblest offspring is the last.
Bishop George Berkeley
[(According to W. Cleon Skousen, the first four empires are the Neo-Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, the Macedonian Empire, and the (Western, Eastern, and Holy) Roman Empire) the fifth was believed to mean the British American colonies] photog
Well, my deliberate opinion is – it’s a jolly strange world.
Enoch Arnold Bennett
Journalists say a thing that they know isn’t true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
Enoch Arnold Bennett
Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
Enoch Arnold Bennett
‘Ye can call it influenza if ye like,’ said Mrs Machin. ‘There was no influenza in my young days. We called a cold a cold.
Enoch Arnold Bennett
Always leave them wanting more.
Phineas T. Barnum
I am a showman by profession…and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
Phineas T. Barnum
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
Phineas T. Barnum
Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.
Phineas T. Barnum
But however mysterious is nature, however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science, the patronage and the success of quacks and quackeries are infinitely more wonderful than those of honest and laborious men of science and their careful experiments.
Phineas T. Barnum