Quotes by : Mark Forsyth

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

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

The Latin word for sausage was botulus, from which English gets two words. One of them is the lovely....

We all know that scientific words need an obscure classical origin to make them sound impressvie to those....

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....

So Shakespeare stole but he did wonderful things with his plunder. He's like somebody who nicks your....

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

If Jupiter was in the ascendant when you were born, you are of a jovial disposition; and if you're not....

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