I have often heard it say,
-Where would we be without a sense of humour?
-Germany.
I have collected some of my favourite ones and listed them below.
He is a typical Englishman, always dull and usually violent. Oscar Wilde
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood. E V Lucas
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether
You are happy or not. George Bernard Shaw
An Englishman´s real ambition is to get a railway compartment to himself. Ian Hay
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar wilde
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. Winston Churchill
In a controversy it is safest to assume that both side are lying. Robert Lynd
The more the English dislike you, the more polite they are. Rabbi Blue
A kiss on the cheek is sufficient greeting. After all, we are not French generals.
Lady Cooper
A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralises is invariably
plain. Oscae Wilde
My one regret in life is that I never climbed over a fence. Queen Mary
Irish Americans are about as Irish as black Americans are African. Bob Geldof
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants
their chateaux would never have been burnt. G M Trevelyan
My attitude to France was, I suppose, inherited from my father, who always felt perfectly
at home there
because he never attempted to talk or make friends with the natives. Robert Morley
In prison, I studied German. Indeed, this seemes to be the proper place fo such study.
Oscar Wilde
Doppler effect
We have all heard the drop in pitch of an ambulance siren’s wail as it speeds past.
Waves coming from a source that is moving towards you arrive squashed together and
so seem to have a higher frequency. Similarly, waves become spread out and so
take longer to reach you from a source that is receding, resulting in a frequency
drop.
this is the Doppler effect. It has been used to measure speeding cars, blood flow
and
the motions of stars and galaxies in the universe