Archive for the ‘Bits’ Category

March 1, 2008 – “I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” Mark Twain

February 29, 2008 – “I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn’t come in until half-past five.” Henny Youngman

February 28, 2008 – “Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.” Pope John XXIII

February 26, 2008 – “No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.” Thomas Robert Dewar

February 24, 2008 – “In most betting shops you will see three windows marked Bet Here, but only one window with the legend Pay Out.” Jeffrey Bernard

February 23, 2008 – “The discontented man finds no easy chair.” Ben Franklin

February 12, 2008 – “The less we know, the longer our explanations.” Ezra Pound

February 10, 2008 – “Sex is an anti-climax after this.” Jockey Mick Fitzgerald upon winning the 1996 Grand National

February 9, 2008 – “There are two kinds of travel: First Class and with children.” Julian Barnes

February 7, 2008 – “Sex is like money.; only too much is enough.” John Updike