Don’t look for big things, just do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Where Potatoes Differ
I bought a big bag of potatoes and it’s growing eyes like crazy. Other foods rot. Potatoes want to see.
Bill Callahan, Letters to Emma Bowlcut
The Dreaded Lorgnette
“Don’t blame me, Pongo,” said Lord Ickenham, “if Lady Constance takes her lorgnette to you. God bless my soul, though, you can’t compare the lorgnettes of to-day with the ones I used to know as a boy. I remember walking one day in Grosvenor Square with my aunt Brenda and her pug dog Jabberwocky, and a policeman came up and said the latter ought to be wearing a muzzle.
“My aunt made no verbal reply. She merely whipped her lorgnette from its holster and looked at the man, who gave one choking gasp and fell back against the railings, without a mark on him but with an awful look of horror in his staring eyes, as if he had seen some dreadful sight. A doctor was sent for, and they managed to bring him round, but he was never the same again. He had to leave the Force, and eventually drifted into the grocery business. And that is how Sir Thomas Lipton got his start.”
from Uncle Fred in the Springtime by P. G. Wodehouse