Quips& Quotes

“It’s strange how I meet many people who fell in with the wrong crowd but never any member of the wrong crowd itself.”

– Theodore Dalrymple

To be born is to be wrecked on an island.” – author JM Barrie, quoted in the Week

“Fifty-nine per cent of Americans think Trump’s presidency has been a failure. The other 41% still don’t have Twitter.” – US comedian Stephen Colbert

“I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”

– F Scott Fitzgerald quoted by

Jake Bailey in the New Zealand Herald

“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” – Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson

“Having children is like living in a frat house – nobody sleeps, everything’s broken and there’s a lot of throwing up.” – Ray Romano

“Do more than believe: practise.” – William Arthur Ward

“Vladimir Putin is taking a break. He’s in Siberia putting on a snorkel and shooting fish with a speargun. Though he later claimed the fish were killed by Ukrainian separatists.”

– Colbert again

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – primatologist Jane Goodall