Tuesday, May 13, 2003
�Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.�
- Will Rogers (1879 � 1935), American humorist, actor, rancher, writer and wit: in Grove �The Will Rogers Book�, 1961.
�It was no summer progress. A cold coming they had of it, at this time of year; just the worst time of the year, to take a journey, and specifically a long journey, in. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off in solstitio brumali, the very dead of Winter.�
- Bishop Lancelot Andrewes (1555 � 1626), English churchman: �Sermon15, Of the Nativity�, 1629.
�A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.�
- Michael Foot (b.1913), British Labour politician: speech, House of Commons, 1964.
�I should have more faith,� he said; �I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.�
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 � 1930), Scottish writer and war correspondent: �A Study in Scarlet�, 1887.
- Will Rogers (1879 � 1935), American humorist, actor, rancher, writer and wit: in Grove �The Will Rogers Book�, 1961.
�It was no summer progress. A cold coming they had of it, at this time of year; just the worst time of the year, to take a journey, and specifically a long journey, in. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off in solstitio brumali, the very dead of Winter.�
- Bishop Lancelot Andrewes (1555 � 1626), English churchman: �Sermon15, Of the Nativity�, 1629.
�A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.�
- Michael Foot (b.1913), British Labour politician: speech, House of Commons, 1964.
�I should have more faith,� he said; �I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.�
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 � 1930), Scottish writer and war correspondent: �A Study in Scarlet�, 1887.
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