When mining in books,
remember two rules:
dig where there's gold
and leave glitter to fools.
Everyone contributes to society--some by serving as horrible examples.
When the grass appears greener on the other side of the fence, the illusion lies not so much in the
grass as in the fence.
We all have free will. In fact, our will is so free that we often have little control over it.
In a nutshell, be a nut.
Many who will sit inert before a TV all day will also honk in slow traffic.
Leaving a few stones unturned in a marriage or a minefield can be downright healthy.
Give a man a fish
and feed him for a day;
teach a man to fish
and he casts his life away.
God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. Much later, IBM said, "Let the chips fall where
they may," and chaos was upon the earth.
"I don't mind dying," the old-timer mused, "but I'm sure going to miss myself."
When I'm very ill, no fat ladies are allowed to sing at my bedside.
A stitch in time saves the theory of relativity.
Half of humanity have ego problems, while the other half seem proud not to have any.
At the end of a day, is there one less day in your life or one more day in your life?
Morning Prayer:
Now I wake me up from bed;
I thank the Lord I'm still not dead.
The Lord declined my soul to take
For reasons which remain opaque.
Need we be terribly surprised at the shortcomings of a world that is substantially run by the
personalities who dominate meetings?
No Hog Heaven?
Might not the same bliss
as the guru's Nirvana
be experienced by pigs
in a rotten banana?
Any three sharp lawyers know at all times which three of them are lying.
The Kindest Safe:
Thieves will fail,
try as they may,
to steal any money
you've given away.
During the 20th century, computers have enabled business offices to move much more quickly from
one emergency to the next.
Remembered writers film murderously fast trains from close to the tracks.
Why do some women object to God as male when none seem to question that gender for the devil?
The last word is never the last word.
Getting fired means you'll never be the CEO.
Visualization can be important to one's advancement in a large company, especially the ability to see
clothing on naked emperors.
Everybody is said to be unique, but most people are unique in about the same way.
The tongue inside the brain speaks awfully bravely.
A grandmother's love could light a large city.
Whoever allows yellow stars to speckle the night sky also allows yellow dandelions to speckle my
yard. So be it.
For TV addicts, death may cause minor personality changes.
Safe Prediction:
When whales can take flight in the air
and birds can swim under the sea,
executives then will be fair
and doctors won't charge any fee.
A newborn's first thought: "Now what?"
Our commencement speaker revealed at length his firm grasp of the obvious.
He carefully hid his feeling of superiority behind a smug expression.
We spend our first forty years making mistakes, and our next forty years making more mistakes.
Rainbows are around us all the time, but it may take a very dark cloud to make them appear.
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