“I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.”

It's been a dull day looking for shoes. My "kung fu" stylee work shoes have finally given up after two years! but due to my rather limited budget, and sheer laziness, I didn't get any! So it's back to the Robinson Crusoe look tomorrow (although I have shaved of that full beard - it was almost completely white - I am so old!
As pure unabashed filler here's those Quentin Crisp Quotes I was talking about last week!!! (pure filler!!!)

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style (my Favourite!!!)

Men get laid, but women get screwed

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster

Never get involved with someone who wants to change you

The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy

The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse - my personal credo!

For flavour, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook - I vaguely recall