Never dance in a puddle when there's a hole in your shoe (it's always best to take your shoes off first).
Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.
Lewis Carroll. He was an odd one. Real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Completely denied having anything to do with the Alice books. Daft as a brush. You'd have liked him!
I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.