Quotations

Some of Martin's favourite quips and email sign-offs from over the years.

Whatever you do, make sure you always do it 100%. Except when giving blood.
Bill Murray

When being pursued by a pack of taxidermists it is a good rule never to play dead.
Unknown

Woe to him who reads but one book.
George Herbert (1593 – 1633)

Those of us who think they know everything are often a real trial to those of us who do.
Unknown

Prayer is a breathing that purifies the air, like leaves on the tree.
Paul Quenon

“To correlate is all our aim,
Link Latin on to statics,
Co-ordinate theology
With higher mathematics.”
Martin Mosse

Old professors never die: they merely lose their faculties!
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