King David and King Solomon
Led merry, merry lives,
With many, many lady friends,
And many, many wives;
But when old age crept upon them —
With many, many qualms! —
King Solomon wrote the Proverbs
And King David wrote the Psalms.
(James Ball Naylor, ‘King David and King Solomon’)
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support
(John Buchan – H.E.Fosdick ‘On being a real person’)
The Revised Prayer Book: a sort of attempt to suppress burglary by legalising petty larceny
(Dean Inge ‘Geoffrey Madan’s Notebooks’)
From The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations
RAJA ARASA RATNAM 