events today on this Forum have me appreciating "Irony" today, and so this came to mind:- https://time.com/4231031/fool-all-the-people-lincoln-quote/
I've never really understood 'you cannot fool all the people all the time'. Because if you had fooled all of the people all of the time then nobody would ever know they had been fooled.
"Torque wrenches are not always suitable for every single fastener tightening application" Quote from "just about every decent automotive design engineer"
Interesting quote from one of the dodgiest politicians in human history. Perhaps it was a hope that his ‘legacy’ would never truly be known.
@XH558 "He clapped that chimney on the roof when he was sixteen, I've had to live with it ever since. It's awful. I came home one day from work and there it was, sticking up in the sky. The photographer came from the Evening News. People drove here on Sunday afternoons to stare at it. Everyone said our Fred was a lunatic." Betsy Dibnah
Cate Blanchette Theres a difference between a story & owning it like it was always yours. One builds legacy & the other builds ego. Frankie Boyle The job isn't to be liked. The job (of a comedian) is to say what nobody else wants too say. If I make you laugh & squirm in the same breath, I know I've done it right. Ash Sarkar ..well I guess because Satan was unavailable... (Tony Blair's involved in discussions about a post war Gaza) Bertrand Russell Love is wise, hatred is foolish.