Life Is Like A Very Short Visit

No Matter How Old We Become, We Can Still Call Them 'holy Mother' And 'father' And Put A Child-like Trust In Them.

Monks, Nuns, Long-term Spinsters And Bachelors And Permanent Homosexuals Are All, In A Reproductive Sense, Aberrant. Society Has Bred Them, But They Have Failed To Return The Compliment.

We Are To Put It Mildly, In A Mess, And There Is A Strong Chance That We Shall Have Exterminated Ourselves By The End Of The Century. Our Only Consolation Will Be That As A Species, We Have Had An Exciting Term Of Office.

People Who Keep Dogs Live Longer On Average Than Those Who Do Not. This Is Not Some Kind Of Pro-canine Campaigning Fantasy. It Is A Simple Medical Fact That The Calming Influence Of The Company Of A Friendly Pet Animal Reduces Blood Pressure And Therefore The Risk Of Heart Attack.

Aquatic Animals Suffer From The Disadvantage That They Cannot Scream When In Pain, So We Find It Hard To Gauge The Degree Of Their Agony. If Fish Could Scream, Angling Purely For Sport Would Be Outlawed Without Delay.