“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.”

        — James Nicoll

“Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.”

        — Ray Bradbury

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

        — William Somerset Maugham

“A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point.”

        — Mistinguett

Pucker up, this Sunday is International Kissing Day!

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

        — Malcolm Muggeridge

“Corporate policy is the great leveller, allows the gibbering idiot not to think and drives the intelligent to gibbering idiocy.”

        — Adam Donnison

“Love is like Pi – natural, irrational, and VERY important.”