The Slaughtered Lamb

[Ada Lovelace]

I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.

What BrainyQuote doesn't mention is that I was two years old when I said that.

[Mary Somerville]

My terrible twos where marked by ennui. This was swiftly banished by my governess, who informed me sternly that life was going to be what I'd make of it, and I'd better stop flinging my peas at the ceiling.

[Hannah Arendt]

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies
Tell me lies
Tell me, tell me lies
Oh no-no, you can't disguise
You can't disguise
No, you can't disguise
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies

From the liner notes:
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

[Vance Packard]

Is it karaoke night, or am I early?

[Anne Rice]

Guests to my house used to ask if I was a vampire, as I kept the mirrors covered. That's silly, I'd say; why have mirrors just to cover them? It's merely a conversation starter. They'd laugh uncertainly, then I'd then drink their blood.

[Grandma Moses]

I didn't earn my fangs till quite late in life.

[Wilhelm Grimm]

Hold on, I'm taking notes.

[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]

The first draft of Philosophie Zoologique included such creatures of the night, but my editor persuaded me to leave them out.

[Emily Brontë]

[In accordance with the UK's online safety act, kindly affirm that you are an adult and are A-OK with watching the following clip from the popular American crime drama which shows scenes of a sexual nature about to be performed below the steering wheel. Allowing your device to scan your iris and saying "I so affirm" should do it. Thank you for your cooperation.]

[Alois Alzheimer]

There is some evidence that regular internet use may help reduce the risk of dementia, but excessive internet use may increase the risk.

I'd throw in a link to Carole King's It's Too Late, but fear that reflexive embedding of YouTube videos may be a sign of cognitive decline.

PS.

On 3 November 1906 Alzheimer discussed his findings on the brain pathology and symptoms of presenile dementia publicly, at the Tübingen meeting of the Southwest German Psychiatrists. The attendees at this lecture seemed uninterested in what he had to say. The lecturer that followed Alzheimer was to speak on the topic of "compulsive masturbation", which the audience of 88 individuals was so eagerly awaiting that they sent Alzheimer away without any questions or comments on his discovery of the pathology of a peculiar case of early-onset dementia.