One of the happy ironies of life is that the accent on ultima falls on the antepenult

 One of the happy ironies of life is that the accent on ultima falls on the antepenult.

No matter what uncertainties life may throw in your way, you can always double-back on that.

Happiness is the simpleton who thinks Samuel Johnson was being vulgar

 

Happiness is The Four Apostrophes of the Apocalypse

You'll notice it's not Goodwyn's, either lol.

 

Happiness is decimation

 Nine in ten prefer it. 🤣

Peak happiness is butter, by a large margarine

 

Happiness is probable caws

 

Happiness is the word queue

 

Happiness is the sound words make

The Mary Rose, perhaps planned under Henry VII, sank in 1545

I confess I do not like to see

words written out of melody.

On the page alarms do ring

whene'er the author makes them sing

out of tune to aural sense,

mixing past and perfect tense.

As when The Rosemary instantly sunk,

an ugly phrase that goes kerplunk.

-- Johnny

Dead this date for 400 years, I can think of no one's words which make me happier than William Shakespeare's

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Because ... 

 

his heroes are men, that the love and hatred, the hopes and fears, of his chief personages are such as common to other human beings. ... Shakespeare's excellence is not the fiction of a tale, but the representation of life: and his reputation is therefore safe, till human nature shall be changed.

-- Samuel Johnson