“The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.” — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Quotations
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“We have got to learn to think scientifically, not only about inanimate things, but about ourselves and one another. It is possible to do this.” — J.B.S. Haldane
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.” — Marcus Aurelius
Gatherings
“I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” — Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby
“At any gathering I always feel as though I am the youngest person in the room.” — W.H. Auden
“The difference between what is commonly called ordinary company and good company, is only hearing the same things said in a little room or in a large saloon, at small tables or at great tables, before two candles or twenty sconces.” — Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727
“Dry Pants Eat No Fish”
Bulgarian proverbs:
- Hunger sees nothing but bread.
- In every village is the grave of Christ.
- The clean gets dirty more easily.
- The devil knows everything except where women sharpen their knives.
- Forests have eyes, meadows ears.
- God’s feet are of wool; his hands are of iron.
- One guest hates the other, and the host both.
- Do not lie for lack of news.
- The oversaintly saint is not pleasing even unto God.
- Man is ever self-forgiving.
- God does not shave — why should I?
- A long dark night — the year.
- Do not salt other people’s food.
- Become a sheep and you will see the wolf.
- The smaller saints will be the ruin of God.
- Where there is union a bullet can swim.
- The wife carries her husband on her face; the husband carries his wife on his linen.
- When a wool merchant speaks of sheep he means cloth.
And “God is not sinless. He created the world.”
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“It is a well-known fact, too, that in the ancient world in which the entire population were non-smokers, crime of the most horrid type was rampant. It was a non-smoker who committed the first sin and brought death into the world and all our woe. Nero was a non-smoker. Lady Macbeth was a non-smoker. Decidedly, the record of the non-smokers leaves them little to be proud of.” — Robert Lynd
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“One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money most, are the very ones that never have it.” — Finley Peter Dunne
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“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” — Samuel Butler
Misc
- In the King James Bible, Ezra 7:21 lacks only the letter J, and 1 Chronicles 12:40 lacks only Q.
- In 2016 Pharmacy Times judged talimogene laherparepvec the hardest drug name to pronounce.
- 34 × 72 × 875 = 3472875 (B.J. van der Zwaag)
- The Estonian word kuulilennuteetunneliluuk (“bullet tunnel hatch”) is a palindrome.
- “No one ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.” — Kin Hubbard
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“Stilpo having escaped the burning of his city, in which he had lost wife, children, and property, Demetrius Poliorcetes, seeing him unperturbed in expression amid the great ruin of his country, asked him if he had not suffered loss. He replied No, that thanks to God he had lost nothing of his own.” — Montaigne
“In general, the greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.” — Hazlitt
“It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.” — Montaigne
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“Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.” — Elias Canetti