| These are pretty easy.
o It stands to reason. If a bloke's got a few bob and he's
still not hitched, he's bound to be wanting a missus.
Jane Austen, _Pride_and_Prejudice_
o At this moment in time, the cold front which has been
causing stress and depression is giving way to prolonged sunny
spells thanks to Prince Andrew's favorite newspaper.
"Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer
by this son of York...", _Richard_III_, Shakespeare.
o Was anyone naffed off? The squadies were clued up, some
berk had cocked it. Wasn't down to them to argue. They
couldn't be bothered to work it out. They just had to go on
with the job and snuff it. They went down the Valley on their
bikes. About 600 of 'em.
_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade_, Afred Lord Tennyson (I believe).
o The project began as an essentially ground-up construction.
It was a greenfield site and visibility was far from satis-
factory, as a result of which a number of memos were sent down
from the top floor. The Chairman wanted instant action on the
lighting front and he got it.
"In the begining the earth was without form and void, and darkness
moved upon the face of the waters..." _Gensis_
o The acquisition of single-parent family status, Mr. Worthing,
may categorize you as a deprived child; complete de-parentage
appears to constitute wilful self-neglect.
_The_Importance_of_being_Ernest_, Oscar Wilde
o Globally-speaking, we're in a theatre situation.
"All the world's a stage...", _The_Tempest_, Shakespeare
o If you make a pony every year and you spend twenty-four,
ninety-five pee, you're well chuffed. But if you make a pony
and you spend pony-and-a-half, you're gutted.
"Income twenty five pounds, expenditures..result happiness..."
Charles Dickens (is this _David_Copperfield_? Mr. Pickwick,
anyway)
-John Bishop
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-- Cliff
> o It stands to reason. If a bloke's got a few bob and he's
> still not hitched, he's bound to be wanting a missus.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possesion of a fortune must be in want of a wife.
-- Pride and Prejudice
> o At this moment in time, the cold front which has been
> causing stress and depression is giving way to prolonged sunny
> spells thanks to Prince Andrew's favorite newspaper.
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious by this
sun of York.
-- Richard III
> o Was anyone naffed off? The squadies were clued up, some
> berk had cocked it. Wasn't down to them to argue. They
> couldn't be bothered to work it out. They just had to go on
> with the job and snuff it. They went down the Valley on their
> bikes. About 600 of 'em.
Was there a man dismayed? / Not tho' the soldier knew / Some one
had blundered: / Their's not to make reply, / Their's not to
reason why, / Their's but to do or die: / Into the valley of
Death / Rode the six hundred.
-- The Charge of the Light Brigade
> o The project began as an essentially ground-up construction.
> It was a greenfield site and visibility was far from satis-
> factory, as a result of which a number of memos were sent down
> from the top floor. The Chairman wanted instant action on the
> lighting front and he got it.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the
earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face
of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters. And God said, let there be light: and there was light.
-- Genesis
> o The acquisition of single-parent family status, Mr. Worthing,
> may categorize you as a deprived child; complete de-parentage
> appears to constitute wilful self-neglect.
To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a
misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
-- The Importance of Being Earnest
> o Globally-speaking, we're in a theatre situation.
All the world's a stage.
-- As You Like It
> o If you make a pony every year and you spend twenty-four,
> ninety-five pee, you're well chuffed. But if you make a pony
> and you spend pony-and-a-half, you're gutted.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen
nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds,
annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
-- David Copperfield
> o I walked about a bit on my own. Then I went to the garden
> centre.
I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales
and hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host of golden
daffodils.
-- Wordsworth
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