New Orts #39

October 13 MMXXIV

There was a young man
from Cork who got limericks
and haiku confused.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, mis-diagnosing the problem, and mis-applying the wrong remedy.
— widely, and wrongly, attributed to Groucho Marx
See https://checkyourfact.com/2019/09/20/fact-check-groucho-marx-politics-trouble-remedies/

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?
— Epicurus (c.341-270 BC)

If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
— Hamlet (Act V, Scene 2)

If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself. — Eubie Blake (1883-1983)