Sense And Senility

‘Well, Mr Blackadder always says, when the going gets tough, the tough hide under the table.’

– Joseph M. 1998. Blackadder The Whole Damn Dynasty London, Great Britain: Penguin Books (1999) p. 305

Laws Be Gone

“Laws are silent in times of war.”

– Cicero

Learn to Cut

“War is the only proper school of the surgeon.”

– Hippocrates

Suffering Truth

“In war, truth is the first casualty.”

– Aeschylus

Alea Iacta Est

“The dice is cast.”

– Julius Caesar

Learn From Everything

“It is right to learn, even from the enemy.”

– Ovid

What is Man?

“We study what man has done to discover what man is.”

– Robin George Collingwood

Mnemonic Verse of Monarchs of England

Arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee,
Harry, Dick, John, Harry three;

One, two, three Neds, Richard two
Harrys four, five, six… then who?

Edwards four, five, Dick the bad,
Harrys twain VII VIII and Ned the Lad;

Mary, Bessie, James the Vain,
Charlie, Charlie, James again…

William and Mary, Anna Gloria,
Four Georges I II III IV, William and Victoria;

Edward seven next, and then
George the fifth in 1910;

Ned the eighth soon abdicated
Then George the sixth was coronated;

After which Elizabeth
And that’s the end until her death.