Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. – Charles Caleb Colton
When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter. – Francis Bacon, "Of Cunning," Essays
I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and Id bet I wouldnt lose 10 % of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. – Berke Breathed
