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Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations, known as If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People? in the United States, is the third title in a series of books based on the intellectual British panel game QI, written by series-creator John Lloyd and head-researcher John Mitchinson. It is a book of "quite interesting" quotations.
"Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" is an 18th-century ode by Thomas Gray. It is composed of ten 10-line stanzas, rhyming ABABCCDEED, with the B lines and final D line in iambic trimeter and the others in iambic tetrameter.
Ignorance is bliss" may refer to: "Ignorance Is Bliss", a phrase coined by English poet Thomas Gray in his 1742 " Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College " "In knowing nothing, life is most delightful" ( In nil sapiendo vita iucundissima est ), a quote by Publilius Syrus
First edition (publ. Tor Books) Cover art by Stephan Martiniere. The Free Lunch is a 2001 novel by Spider Robinson.The title is a reference to the adage "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch", popularized by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein in his 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.
Alice: Ignorance is Bliss is a 2014 British short documentary by Thomas McNaught.It was featured on BBC Three’s FRESH scheme. [1]The documentary was nominated for Best British Short Film [2] at the 28th Leeds International Film Festival – where it received a special mention [3] – and was shortlisted for Independent Age’s "Best Factual New Media Content" at the Older People Media Awards.
Free Lunch is a middle-grade memoir by Rex Ogle, published September 10, 2019, by Norton Young Readers. The book follows Ogle's middle school experience of being "a poor kid in a wealthy school district."
No more;—where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. — Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (full text here) Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
The Libersign, a political emblem of the U.S. Libertarian Party during the 1970s, features an arrow diagonally crossing the letters "TANSTAAFL". "No such thing as a free lunch" (also written as "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" and sometimes called Crane's law [1]) is a popular adage communicating the idea that it is impossible to get something for nothing.