One-Liner Wednesday: Persuasion
“Diplomacy is the art of letting other people have your way” – variously attributed to, inter alia, David Frost and Daniele Vare – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 21 November 2018
One-Liner Wednesday: The Benefits Of A Classical Education*
“Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur”
One-Liner Wednesday: Not Literally…
“I’d really rather you didn’t” – – – – – – – This sign at a local medical centre could perhaps have been worded better. One-Liner Wednesday 19 September 2018
One-Liner Wednesday: Joie de vivre
“I hate having to behave: it takes all the joy out of life” – my Mum (last week) – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 12 September 2018
One-Liner Wednesday: Know what I mean?
“Predictive text; don’cha hate it?” – everyone – – – – – – And yet they persist in calling them smartphones…. Your wish is my command, dearest. One-Liner Wednesday 5 September 2018
One-Liner Wednesday: Curiosity
”Wha’ ‘appened?” – – – – – – – Inevitable interjection by grandsons into any adult conversation taking place within earshot. Bless ‘em. One-Liner Wednesday 29 August 2018
One-Liner Wednesday: You Are What You Eat
Vegetarian Chicken??? – – – – – – – Part of the menu of the Chinese take-away just around the corner from my Mum’s house. One-Liner Wednesday 8 August 2018
One-Liner Wednesday: Plus ça change
“I have seen the future and it is very much like the present. Only longer” – from ‘The Profit’, by Kehlog Albran* – – – – – – * being a parody of the sanctimonious tosh that is Kahlil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’. One-Liner Wednesday 11 July 2018
One-Liner Wednesday: I’ll Drink To That
“good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well us’d“ – Othello, 2.3 – – – – – – Good old Shakespeare. One-Liner Wednesday 4 July 2018
One-Liner Wednesday: Priorities
“Some people think football is a matter of life and death….I can assure them it is much more serious than that” – Bill Shankly – – – – – – Well, it is the World Cup, in case you hadn’t noticed. And it’s not soccer. It’s football. One-Liner Wednesday 27 June 2018
