"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading" Henny Youngman

"In wine there is wisdom. In beer there is freedom. In water there is bacteria" Benjamin Franklin

"In art or theatre or literature nobody says, 'I'm sorry pal, you're 45, you've got to spend the rest of your life reading the same book or seeing the same film or going to the same play...'" - John Peel on being asked why he bothered keeping up with new music.

For Whom The Bell Tolls No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. - John Donne 1572 - 1632 I love that quote, it's in the front of Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls, wouldn't the world be a better place if we all thought like that.

Strange Days Indeed.... ...when I find myself agreeing with anything that the Manc intellectual Noel Gallagher has to say, but I saw two quotes recently that had me nodding in agreement.... "Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years" "I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. I just don't like the dragging women around on leads and all that stuff. I'm not fucking having that." Who would have thought it ? The wit and wisdom of Noel Gallagher. Oasis are still crap though.