PRUDENCE Trust in God, but tie your camel. Persian Proverb
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THE SECRET OF PROGRESS All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. Samuel Butler
BASICS From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first. Bertolt Brecht
EXPERTS Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. George Burns.
MAKING FRIENDS You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. Dale Carnegie
ATTITUDE Thinking the world should entertain you leads to boredom and sloth. Thinking you should entertain the world leads to bright clothes, odd graffiti and amazing grace in running for the bus. The Next Whole…
BURDENS God gives burdens, also shoulders. Yiddish proverb quoted by Jimmy Carter in his concession speech to Ronald Reagan
NEAR MISS Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. Stephanie, quoted by Anne Herbert in The Next Whole Earth Catalog
CONCEIT Every goose is certain she could lay golden eggs if only properly fed. Paul Eldridge, Maxims For a Modern Man
ACCIDENTS The worst thing about accidents in the kitchen is you usually have to eat them.
KINDNESS will influence more than eloquence. Chestnuts, Freshly Roasted
MIRACLES Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles isn't a realist. David Ben Gurion, Late Prime Minister of Israel
RIGHTS AND LIMITS Everyone has a constitutionl right to be a jackass as long as you know when the statute of limitations run out.
DESIGNED A shin is a device invented for finding furniture in the dark. Funny, Funny World
REPUTATION When men speak ill of you, so live that nobody will believe them. Plato
COMMITMENT means a willingness to be unhappy for awhile.
FROM SCRATCH If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan, Cosmos (Random House).
DEMOCRACY Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. Reinhold Niebuhr, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, (Scribner).
TEENAGERS There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.
DOWN, DOWN, DOWN If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility…
