Compiled by London swaminathan

Post No.2236

Date: 11  October 2015

Time uploaded in London: 19-55

Thanks for the pictures.

Don’t use pictures. Don’t reblog for at least a week.

Mark Twain once observed sagely, “one should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on the hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again – and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.”

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When Bernardo Tasso remonstrated with his son, the immortal Torquato, on his injudicious preference of philosophy to jurisprudence, and angrily demanded: “What has philosophy done for you?”

Torquato replied: “It has taught me to hear with meekness the reproofs of a father.”

picture of Torquato

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President Woodrow Wilson would sit down beside his green-shaded lamp and take p one paper after another – and work until the small hours. Approval was designated by “Okeh,W.W.” on the margin of a paper.

Someone asked why he did not use the “O.K.”

“Because it is wrong,” Mr Wilson said. He said that the enquirer look up “Okeh” in a dictionary. That he did and discovered that it is a Choktaw word meaning “It is so”.

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Someone once rudely taunted John Maynard, Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal of England, with having grown old to forget his law.

“True, Sir,” he replied, “I have forgotten more law than you ever learned.”