Shay

“The author has discovered to his cost that if you call a zoo to ask the cubic volume of the average adult camel,
they treat you as if you are a complete idiot.”
― Clive Maxfield, Bebop to the Boolean Boogie: An Unconventional Guide to Electronics

“It makes a body ooze sarcasm at every pore, to go about Rome and Florence and see what this last generation has been doing with the statues. These works, which had stood in innocent nakedness for ages, are all figleaved now. Yes, every one of them. Nobody noticed their nakedness before, perhaps; nobody can help noticing it now,
the figleaf makes it so conspicuous. (Quoting Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens)”
― Franklin J. Meine, 1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

“Human taste is a curious thing; delicacy is purely a matter of environment and point of view. (Quoting John Hay)”
― Franklin J. Meine, 1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

“There are not books enough on earth to contain the record of the prophecies Indians and other unauthorized parties have made; but one may carry in his overcoat pockets the record of all the prophecies that have been fulfilled.”
― Mark Twain