November 27, 2011
Quotes: Groucho Marx, Rudyard Kipling and Charles Dickens
Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun! GROUCHO MARX
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began–
That the dog returns to his vomit and the Sow returns to her mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wobbling back to the fire;
R KIPLING quoted to me in chastisement by my sister Jane Reynell and put here at the request of my friend Sarah Johns
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. CHARLES DICKENS
November 2, 2011
Nursing Home Reading…
Visiting a Nursing Home, full of very old people I examined the bookshelf. First book I saw was “An Unhealthy Interest in Bones” by Ellis Peters and the second was “101 Things NOT to do Before You Die” by Paul Merton……
