“Listen to what it says in the horoscopes: ‘If it is your birthday, there may be an increased amount of mail. Expect gifts, friendly salutations from people and the occasional surprise. Possibility of cake.’ That’s so weird—I wonder if any of it will come true?”
Jasper Fforde, Thursday Next: First Among Sequels (New York: Penguin Group, 2007), p. 50
That’s the thing about hitting fifty. All your life you think the half century is death’s adolescence, but actually it’s really not that bad, as long as you can remember where you left your glasses.
Jasper Fforde, Thursday Next: First Among Sequels (New York: Penguin Group, 2007), p. 17
Ulysses S. Grant, who left office in 1877, said,
“The only place I ever found in my life to put a paper so as to find it again was either a side coat pocket or the hands of a clerk…more careful than myself.”
Ronald G. Shafer, Presidential papers have long been turning up in unexpected places, Wash. Post (Feb. 4, 2023)
