Experience II

No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It seems to make an auto driver mad if he misses you.

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity.

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing. -- G. Steinem

After all, it is only the mediocre who are always at their best. -- Jean Giraudoux or Somerset Maugham?

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just terrible. -- Jean Kerr

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest. -- Eric Clapton

The good die young -- because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good. -- John Barrymore

The kind of danger people most enjoy is the kind they can watch from a safe place.

Bored people are boring people.

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

It's lucky you're going so slowly, because you're going in the wrong direction.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. -- Mark Twain

Pissing in your pants will only keep you warm for so long. -- old Danish saying

Experience has proved that some people indeed know everything. -- Russell Baker

There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know yet. -- Ambrose Bierce

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always. -- Albert Schweitzer

Tell the truth and run. -- Yugoslav proverb

Let's put the question another way: is it really possible for time to end - the whole idea of time as the past - chronologically, so that there is no tomorrow at all? There is the feeling, the actual reality, psychologically, of having no tomorrow. I think that is the healthiest way of living. -- J. Krishnamurti

If you live in the present, every moment is a new beginning.

What can anyone give you greater than now. -- William Stafford

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. -- Robert A. Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus

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