Blogging Bert

I can tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

Cormac McCarthy

Never give people power over you until you know how to get rid of them.

Richard Holloway

If you want to understand what an expanded consciousness looks like, all you have to do is have tea with a four-year-old.

Alison Gopnik

 When you slip on a banana peel people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh.

Nora Ephron

Knowledge comes from taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes from putting things together.

John A. Morrison

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Aldo Emerson

You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

Pablo Neruda

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

I suppose true sexual equality will come when a general called Anthea is found having an unwise lunch with a young unreliable male model from Spain.

John Mortimer

Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing.

Clive James