"A few hours ago I discharged my last duty as King and Emperor, and now that I have been succeeded by my brother, the Duke of York, my...

"I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world be...

"I do not think you have ever realised the shock, which the attitude you took up caused your family and the whole nation. It seemed in...

I don't usually post jokes but I came across the following classic oldie again recently and it never fails to make me smile.  Another j...

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that yo...

“I don’t want loyalty. I want loyalty ! I want him to kiss my ass in Macy’s window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want hi...

"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.” - Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), German mathematician and scientist, upon being inf...

(I know that my father in law, Noel, 84, who had his own jazz radio program at age 17, will be mourning the loss of one of jazz's great...

"If not us, who? If not now, when?" Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), Second Inaugural Address 1985, referring to a balancing of the b...

Byter Carla has asked for a Bytes on the origin of Dutch courage. Here it is. Meaning: Courage obtained as a result of being intoxicated ...

From: Daily Mail/Mail Online 09.05.2010 at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1275498/Soft-drinks-linked-pancreatic-cancer.html# Th...

"Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'M...

(Click on images to enlarge) I love this fence. Some more interesting (and weird) fences below...

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"Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.'"   Lillian Carte...

"It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a littl...

"There'll be two dates on your tombstone. And all your friends will read 'em. But all that's gonna matter is that little d...

Sydney suffered in the Great Depression as much, if not more, than the other capital cities in Australia and more than much of the world. ...

"One death is a tragedy.  A million deaths is a statistic." -  Josef Stalin (1878 - 1953)

(Click on pictures to enlarge). I was undecided as to whether to post the above pic under Vintage Ads or Coincidences.  In the end I did ...

"Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their we...

At the outbreak of the American Civil War, Wilmer McLean (1814-1822) was a retired major in the Virginia militia. Too old to return to act...

Everybody knows the anti-smoking advertisement that features Leonard Cohen singing and which uses the theme "everybody knows smoking ...

Some time ago I posted an item about an anonymous singer/guitarist who travelled by the name FretKillr, sometimes FretKiller. I said how m...

“Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) ...

Caution: This item may be hazardous to your mental health.  Exposure to the song may cause you to keep humming it for a week and drive you ...

With the snap announcement by K Rudd & Co Canberra that ciggie prices will rise by 25% from midnight and that plain packaging will bec...

A question from a Byter: Would we see the same colours as are depicted in the Hubble photographs? The short answer is no. The colour is ...

"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said. 'Yes, but is it the...

Yesterday I posted the “I’m mad as hell” speech from Network and said that the expressed sentiments of alienation and powerlessness were ...