Worldly Wisdom

My Favorite Poems

• "Scots, wha hae" by Robert Burns.
• A Student's Paradigm by Geoffrey Chaucer.
• "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.
• "If I" by Richard Gunn.
• "Invictus" by William Earnest Henley.
• "To the virgins- To make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick.

For the Easily Amused

• Read some of my favorite jokes.

Random Thoughts

• Duty is ours; Results are God's. - John Quincy Adams
• There are three types of people in this world, those who can count, and those who can't. - Unknown
  
• I never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain
• A new generation is growing up in our midst, a generation actuated by new ideas, and its enthusiasm, even when it is misdirected, is, I believe, in the main sincere. But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day. - James Joyce, The Dead
  
• The wisdom of the world is foolishness in God's eyes. - I Corinthians 3:19