Author: baronvoncrow

There is no news

script of the 8.45pm BBC news bulletin, 18 April 1930 (before piano music was played for the rest of the 15-minute segment)

In war, a soldier is most in need of full belly and a good pair of shoes

Attributed, fairly apocryphally, to Napoleon Bonaparte

The French air cleans up the brain and does good – a world of good.

Vincent Van Gogh

Fair stood the wind for France

Michael Drayton, ‘Agincourt’

When April with its showers sweet
Has pierced the drought of March root deep
[…] Then folk long to go on pilgrimages,
And palmers to seek foreign strands,
To distant shrines, known in various lands
And specially from every shire’s end
Of England to Canterbury they wend.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall

King James Bible, Proverbs 16:18

I had the rucksack ready packed for the morning and had reduced its weight from 17 to 15.5 kilos by leaving out binoculars, a transistor and part of the cooking equipment.

Gerard Hughes, SJ, In Search of a Way

All roads lead to Rome

Commonplace, after Post-classical Latin