Tim

The Oxford English Dictionary, J.S.Bach..."I'll name that tune in one"/Antonio Vivaldi..."Is it summer yet?"/Winston Churchill..."Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."..."I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."/Jimi Hendrix..."Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."/The Beatles..She loves you, yes, yes, yes."/Admiral Lord Nelson...:Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon. "/M.Scott Peck...:You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time."/Desmond Morris...:The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo."/Alice Miller..."It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties."/Nelson Mandela..."I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying."/George Orwell...In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."..."It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." and alot of dead people....... including Thomas H. Huxley. "I invented the word 'Agnostic' to denote people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians, both orthodox and heterodox, dogmatise with utmost confidence...."..."Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe."...Tommy Cooper "I went to the Doctor the other day and I said I had broken my arm in three places...He said: don't go to those places then" Oh, Lord, please don't burn us, Don't grill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue, Or simmer us in stock. Don't braise or bake or boil us, Or stir-fry us in a wok. Oh please don't lightly poach us, Or baste us with hot fat, Don't fricassee or roast us, Or boil us in a vat, And please don't stick thy servants Lord, In a Rotissomat...