Quote of the day
Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
Francis Burnand

Born: November 29, 1836
Died: April 21, 1917 (aged 80)
Bio: Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, usually known as F. C. Burnand, was an English comic writer and prolific playwright, best known today as the librettist of Arthur Sullivan's opera Cox and Box.
Known for:
- Happy Thoughts (1868)
- Happy-Thought Hall (1872)
- The Catholic Who's Who and Yearbook
- More Happy Thoughts, Etc. Etc. (1871)
- The Real Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1882)







