The Skater













When one door closes another door opens;
but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door,
that we do not see the ones which open for us.
~ Alexander Graham Bell



Education makes a people easy to lead,
but difficult to drive;
easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
~Baron Henry Peter Brougham





Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward.
They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
~ Goethe










If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
~ Abraham Lincoln
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
~ Blaise Pascal




He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
~ Raymond Hull






Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence.
Suffering is not a punishment-it is a result.
~ Robert Ingersoll




The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt












Red Geraniums

by Martha Haskell Clark

Life did not bring me silken gowns,
Nor jewels for my hair,
Nor signs of gabled foreign towns
In distant countries fair,
But I can glimpse, beyond my pane,
a green and friendly hill,
And red geraniums aflame
upon my window sill

The brambled cares of everyday,
The tiny humdrum things,
May bind my feet when they would stray,
But still my heart had wings
While red geraniums are bloomed
against my window glass,
And low above my green-sweet hill
the gypsy wind-clouds pass.

And if my dreamings n'er come true,
The brightest and the best,
But leave me lone my journey through,
I'll set my heart at rest,
And thank God for home-sweet things,
a green and friendly hill,
And red geraniums aflame
upon my window sill.










For every wave with dimpled face
That leap'd upon the air,
Had caught a star in its embrace
And held it trembling there.
~Amelia B. Welby (1821-1852)





BROOM

On me such beauteous summer pours
That I am covered o'er with flowers;
And when the frost is in the sky
My branches are so fresh and gay
That you might look at me and say-
"This plant can never die."
The butterfly, all green and gold,
To me hath often flown,
There in my blossom to behold
Wings lovely as his own.
~Wordsworth











Martin Luther:

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing,
has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."






Rye bread will do you good,
Barley bread will do you no harm,
Wheaten bread will sweeten your blood,
Oaten bread will strengthen your arm.







- You know it's going to be a bad day when . . .
1.your twin sister forgets your birthday.
2.you put your bra on backwards and it fits better.
3.you see a "60 Minutes news team" waiting in your outer office.
4.your birthday cake collapses from the weight of the candles.
5.you turn on the TV news and they're displaying emergency routes out of your city.
6.you wake up to discover that your water bed broke and then you realize that you don't have a water bed.
7.your horn goes off accidently and remains stuck as you follow a group of Hell's Angels on the freeway.
8.you get a rejection notice from the HUMOR Listserver saying that you're no longer funny
9.your doctor tells you, "Well, I have bad news and good news..."
10.when someone accuses you of faking humor
11.you have an appointment in 10 minutes and you just woke up --------------------




If there was a big gardening convention, and you got up and gave a speech in favor of fast-motion gardening, I bet you would get booed right off the stage. They're just not ready.



As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way.



-A man is driving up a steep, narrow mounttain road. A woman is driving down the same road. As they pass each other, the woman leans out the window and yells, "PIG!" The man immediately leans out his window and replies, "Stupid!" They each continue on their way, and as the man rounds the next corner he slams into a pig in the middle of the road.

Before they invented drawing boards,
what did they go back to?

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

Does the Little Mermaid wear an algebra?

How is it possible to have a civil war?

How do I set my laser printer on stun?

If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry?

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?





Photofinishing Troubles

Snow White received a camera as a gift. She happily took pictures of the Dwarfs and their surroundings. When she finished her first batch she went took the film to be developed. After a week or so she went to get the finished photos. The clerk said the photos were not back from the processor. Needless to say, she was disappointed and started to cry. The clerk, trying to console her, said don't worry, "Someday your prints will come."









The Van Goghs

After much careful research, it has been discovered that the artist Vincent Van Gogh had many relatives. Among them were:

His obnoxious brother............................................Please Gogh

His dizzy aunt ........................................................Verti Gogh

The brother who ate prunes....................................Gotta Gogh

The constipated uncle ............................................Cant Gogh

The brother who worked at a convenience store....Stopn Gogh

The grandfather from Yugoslavia...........................U Gogh

The brother who bleached his clothes white...........Hue Gogh

The cousin from Illinois...........................................Chica Gogh

His magician uncle...................................................Wherediddy Gogh

His Mexican cousin..................................................Amee Gogh

The Mexican cousin's American half brother..........Grin Gogh

The nephew who drove a stage coach ....................Wellsfar Gogh

The ballroom dancing aunt.......................................Tan Gogh

A sister who loved disco...........................................Go Gogh

The bird lover uncle..................................................Flamin Gogh

His nephew psychoanalyst........................................E Gogh

The fruit loving cousin..............................................Man Gogh

An aunt who taught positive thinking.......................Wayto Gogh

The little bouncy nephew.........................................Poe Gogh

And his niece who travels the country in a van.......Winnie Bay Gogh







The most likely way for the world to be destroyed,
most experts agree, is by accident.
That's where we come in; we're computer professionals.
We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein


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