THOUGHTS TO GET YOU THROUGH ALMOST ANY CRISIS

  -  Indecision is the key to flexibility.

   -  Convincing yourself a bad idea is a good idea is a bad idea.

  -  There is no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation.

- All general statements are false. {The Universal Law}

  - Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were
 a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.  -Mark Twain

- Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

- Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
           -- Elbert Hubbard

- It may be a small world but don't ever volunteer to paint it.

  - Happiness is merely the absence of pain.

  -  Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

  -  Sometimes too much liquor isn't enough.

- Bigamy is having one spouse too many. Monogamy is the same. -Oscar Wilde

- Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. -Spanish Proverb

  -  In most cases, the facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.

-Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.  -- Euripides

-Alimony is a fine levied against a man who won't
stay single and can't stay married.

  -  The controlled application of terror is a form
  of communication.

  -  He who thinks logically is a nice contrast
  to the real world.

-  The art of prophecy is difficult, especially with
regard to the future.  (perhaps by  Mark Twain)

- There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
-- Lester J. Pourciau

  -  You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
  -Wayne Dyer

  -  Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for.
(the Republican axiom)

  -  Everything should be made as simple as
 possible, -- but no simpler.  - A. Einstein

- Women have many faults but men have only two;
everything they say and everything they do.

  -  Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

  -  I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

- Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.  -- Lawrence J. Peter

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
            -- Sean O'Casey

- The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.  -- Henny Youngman

-There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

-  People who insist on sharing their religious views
never want to hear any of yours.

- If you had to identify, in a word, the reason why humans will not
achieved their full potential, that word would be "meetings."

-  The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to
annoy the people who are not in them.

-  If  God, who created the entire universe with all of its glories,
decides to deliver a message to humanity, He WILL NOT use, as His
messenger, a person on cable TV.

- Do not confuse your career with your life.

- No matter what happens, somebody will take it way too seriously.

-  When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one
individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is an idiot.

-  Your friends will love you, anyway.

-  Nobody cares if you can't dance well.  Just get up and dance!

  -  Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism.

  -  All things being equal, fat people use more soap.

  -  If you can smile when everything is
       going wrong, you have someone to blame.

  -  One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

- There are only two theories on how to win an argument
with a woman.  Both are incorrect.

-There's always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.
H.L. Mencken

  -  By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.

  -  Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. -Brendan Gill

  -  An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

  -  There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.

- In the midst of great pleasure, make no promises.
In the midst of great anger, answer no letters.
  - Chinese Proverb.


  -  This is as bad as it can get, but don't  bet on it.

  -  Never wrestle with pigs: -- Everyone
       gets dirty, but the pigs enjoy it.

  -  The trouble with life is, you're halfway
   through it before you learn it's a
"do it yourself" thing.

  -  In all problems mechanical, Mother Nature is not on your side.

  -  Being low on the totem pole is an advantage in a storm.

When religion dominates...magic is mistaken for medicine;
When science dominates...medicine is mistaken for magic.
after Thomas Szasz

  -  Virtue may be its own reward but it's also its own punishment.

  -  Never argue with a fool; others may not know who's the fool.

  -  If you're starving, don't eat prunes.

  -  If everything appears to be going fine,
  you've missed something.

  -  No good deed goes unpunished.

- I am not the boss of my house.  I don't know how I lost it.  I don't
     know when I lost it.  I don't think I ever had it.  But I've seen the
       job and I don't want it.  -Bill Cosby

- If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. -George Carlin

  -  Whatever you bought today will
  be on sale by the end of the month.

- A dog chasing two rabbits catches neither.

  -  When someone says "It's the principle
  of the thing, not the money."   Believe me - it's the money!

  -  No amount of education can surpass pure dumb luck.

-Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman
 I don't like and give her a house. -Lewis Grizzard

  -  The more you understand a problem
    the less clear the solution becomes.

-The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde

  -  A word to the wise is often essential.

  -  It is the young that wish to give their
       elders the benefit of their inexperience.

  -  No matter how great your triumph or how
   tragic your defeat, about one billion Chinese
     couldn't care less.
(Lazuli's Chinese Relativity Axiom)

  -  Policies are just ways of preventing
      people from taking part in affairs which
   properly concern them. -adapted from P. Valery

  -  Do not trust a man who claims to be boss in his own house.
If he lies about that he will lie about anything.

   -  Avoid temptation, unless you just can't.

  -  For anything to get clean, something must get dirty.
    For everything to get dirty, nothing
          necessarily gets clean.
         (The Window Washer's Rule)

-  One rarely meets a true believer worth knowing.

  - In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something
  to be thankful for.
As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

  - A man may be a fool and not know it -- but not if he's married.
 (above 3  from H. L. Mencken)

-  Smoking and drinking cure all ills ...  eventually ..

  -  A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

  -  Time wounds all heels.   ( above 2 from G. Marx)

- By three methods we learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
second, by imitation, which is easiest; and
third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
-Confucius, (c. 551-478 BC)

  -  It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
(Dan Quayle, Former [thank God] VP of the USA)

  -  If you must choose between two evils,  pick the one you've never tried before.

-See, the problem is that God gave men a brain and a penis,
but only enough blood to run one at a time.  -Robin Williams

   -  Never play leapfrog with a unicorn!


 unless noted - authors unknown


This page updated  Feb. 2003

Dr. E. L. Rhamstine



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