Old John's

Xmas Almanac

No 2 ~ 1991

Another Cornucopia of 

Aphorisms, Axioms, Saws, Maxims,

Proverbs, Quotations & Adages

for the

Busy OSRAM Manager

We're neither pure nor wise nor good; we'll do the best we know

Candide to Cunegonda

 

All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance

Edward Gibbon

Forget the pressure, ignore the cameras, forget the crowd - just go out there                                                                   and enjoy yourselves!!

Will Carling before the Rugby World Cup Final

& John Reeves before Rounders vs Sales Dept

( England lost, ISD won!)

Patience is the virtue of asses

Though the mills of God grind slowly,

yet they grind exceeding small;

Though with patience he stands waiting

with exactness grinds he all

I don't do DINSAS!

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see

of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building

Thomas Fuller MD

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill

Samuel Johnson

Either dance well or quit the ballroom

Greek Proverb

Eat the Babies!!

attributed to A Mills

Nothing is a colour, everything we see is light

Cezanne

ISD wish you a Happy Christmas  and a Peaceful and Successful New Year

JPR

I distrust all systematisers, and avoid them. The will to a system shows a lack of honesty.

Nietzsche

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at

everything that looks strange

Samuel Pepys

 

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