Life for me can often be summed up in a one-liner. From Dorothy Parker's wit to a De Beer's advert a little text goes a long way, as Twitter well knows. But with the constant assault on us by soundbites isn't it right to take the piss out of pith whether that be quotes from the famous or proverbs? I follow in the penstrokes of some notable practitioners including Samuel Beckett whose take on “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again” was: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Here are some attempts at failing better:
"You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."
Abraham Lincoln
10th President of the United States
b. 1809 d.1865
Or: “On average most people are stupid.”
"I used to be Snow White…but I drifted."
Mae West
Actress
b.1893 d. 1980
Or: “I’m a slut for dwarves.”
Meanwhile some proverbs that have been tampered with:
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step = a cheap flight is just a click away
A new broom sweeps clean...here come the management consultants…
Bad news travels fast = Twitter shitter
Beggars can’t be choosers. It’s the Big Issue or nothing mate.
No man is an Island …not even Barry
A fuller synopsis is available. Some of the ideas are shit but it has gift book written all over it, just under the comment “some of these ideas are shit.” Luckily some of the ideas are not shit.
For the full synopsis email me on: plagiarisemeplease@gmail.com
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