Ponderables

• 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.
• Moderation in all things, including moderation.

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