The Purdzilla Show

Being impatient or angry at suffering does not remove it. On the contrary, it adds a little more to one's troubles, and aggravates and exacerbates a situation already disagreeable. What is necessary is not anger or impatience, but the understanding of the question of suffering, how it comes about, and how to get rid of it, and then to work accordingly with patience, intelligence, determination and energy.  Walpola Rahula (in What The Buddha Taught )

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. John Betjeman

Vandelay, say Vandelay!!

Bill Bryson, in Mother Tongue , explaining how English is the most global language, but, sometimes, the message doesn't make a lot of sense.