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Keep Calm for Chaps
A new volume in the bestselling 'Keep Calm and Carry On' series just for distressed and clueless men.
"Courage is being scared to death—but saddling up anyway."
— John Wayne
"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"
— T. S. Eliot
"Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected."
— Robert Orben
"I advise you to go on living solely to range those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left." — Voltaire
This tome offers the same pearls of life wisdom as 'Keep Calm and Carry On' especially for males at their wits' end.
"Courage is being scared to death—but saddling up anyway."
— John Wayne
"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"
— T. S. Eliot
"Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected."
— Robert Orben
"I advise you to go on living solely to range those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left." — Voltaire
This tome offers the same pearls of life wisdom as 'Keep Calm and Carry On' especially for males at their wits' end.
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160 pages, Hardcover
First published June 2, 2011
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January 12, 2019
It seems as though I am trying to be calmer this year as already this is the second book I have read about the subject ... well we will see as the year progresses!
Various people since Aristotle and Euripides through Errol Flynn and PG Wodehouse and many more down the ages offer advice to hapless young men when perhaps there is a time of crisis. Some advice is worth listening to, some is not worth bothering about but it all gives one something to think about, or even laugh about, regardless.
The book is divided into various sections, one of which is 'Fatherhood' and a very true observation is made by the classical pianist Charles Wadsworth who said, 'By the time a man realises that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong'. How true is that? My Dad often said to me, 'You can't put an old head on young shoulders' and I used to think 'Not again!' but as Wadsworth says, I now realise it is true and have sometimes quoted it to my daughter who probably reacted the same way as I did when her age!
Under the 'Middle Age' heading, the poet Ogden Nash commented, 'Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you' - well I don't particularly want the telephone to ring at any time but nowadays it's always going to be for me because there is no-one else here! I suppose I can always ignore it (and sometimes do!).
The multi-talented Jean Cocteau knew what he was talking about when he amusingly said, 'I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?' And Booth Tarkington was spot on when he commented, 'Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.' I certainly hope so!
The 'Success' category has a couple of amusing thoughts: the editor and journalist Herbert Bayard Swope's 'I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time' is as amusing as we should perhaps expect from a former member of the Algonquin Round Table - he may even have picked it up from Groucho Marx, also a member - while French novelist Jean Giraudoux' 'The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.' A little harsh perhaps but he maybe has a point, in some walks of life anyway ... anyone for the Brexit debate?
Finally, how many times does one think 'Well, it was better in my day'? The American columnist Franklin Pierce Adams sums that up with 'Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.' Now, where was I?
I do enjoy these 'Keep Calm' books for they provide hours of amusing reading.
Various people since Aristotle and Euripides through Errol Flynn and PG Wodehouse and many more down the ages offer advice to hapless young men when perhaps there is a time of crisis. Some advice is worth listening to, some is not worth bothering about but it all gives one something to think about, or even laugh about, regardless.
The book is divided into various sections, one of which is 'Fatherhood' and a very true observation is made by the classical pianist Charles Wadsworth who said, 'By the time a man realises that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong'. How true is that? My Dad often said to me, 'You can't put an old head on young shoulders' and I used to think 'Not again!' but as Wadsworth says, I now realise it is true and have sometimes quoted it to my daughter who probably reacted the same way as I did when her age!
Under the 'Middle Age' heading, the poet Ogden Nash commented, 'Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you' - well I don't particularly want the telephone to ring at any time but nowadays it's always going to be for me because there is no-one else here! I suppose I can always ignore it (and sometimes do!).
The multi-talented Jean Cocteau knew what he was talking about when he amusingly said, 'I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?' And Booth Tarkington was spot on when he commented, 'Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.' I certainly hope so!
The 'Success' category has a couple of amusing thoughts: the editor and journalist Herbert Bayard Swope's 'I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time' is as amusing as we should perhaps expect from a former member of the Algonquin Round Table - he may even have picked it up from Groucho Marx, also a member - while French novelist Jean Giraudoux' 'The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.' A little harsh perhaps but he maybe has a point, in some walks of life anyway ... anyone for the Brexit debate?
Finally, how many times does one think 'Well, it was better in my day'? The American columnist Franklin Pierce Adams sums that up with 'Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.' Now, where was I?
I do enjoy these 'Keep Calm' books for they provide hours of amusing reading.
August 26, 2012
It's nice, fast and interesting. It's especially good for those who like quotes. However, some quotes feel like "fillers". Just to add stuff to the book. Each chapter does not have a lot of quotes relating to it much.
May 16, 2017
An awesome collection of funny smart quotes. A quick rich enjoyable read.
October 20, 2013
Nice, Funny, Entertaining book with many quotes for life.
You can simply read 2 pages per day ;)
You can simply read 2 pages per day ;)
October 28, 2014
" if you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere "
Although it's a simple and small book, It has a lot of ideas that people need it for your lives.
I like it!
Although it's a simple and small book, It has a lot of ideas that people need it for your lives.
I like it!
March 8, 2012
A hotchpotch of quotes with more sarcasm than humour, and overall rather unedifying.
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