Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality..

So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all t….

If you are to use Alexander Graham Bell’s product, which is to say the blower, you should, in all courtesy, use it as he would have wished; and Dr Be….

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was the sausage-maker who disposed of the body..

The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separate….

But Shakespeare never drank coffee. Nor did Julius Caesar, or Socrates. Alexander the Great conquered half the world without even a café latte to per….

A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however com….

Freud said that everything was secretly sexual. But etymologists know that sex is secretly food..

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid..

Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/..