Quotes by : Mark Forsyth

Pot itself has nothing to do with pots and pans, but comes from the Mexican-Spanish word potiguaya, which....

You can spend all day trying to think of some universal truth to set down on paper, and some poets try....

A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness....

Shakespeare was not a genius. He was, without the distant shadow of doubt, the most wonderful writer....

The glamour's off. Almost any question you ask can be answered. It's only the questions that you didn't....

The standard modern measurement for inebriation is the Ose system. This has been considerably developed....

A bar, as any good dictionary will tell you, is a rod of wood or iron that can be used to fasten a gate.....

It is much harder than you might think to show people your bottom.

I had to go outside. I had to let the element of chance in.

A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is....