A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
James Thurber Quotes
Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I’ve not seen!
The rabbits continued to live near the wolves and one day there was a terrible flood which drowned a great many wolves. This was blamed on the rabbits, for it is well known that carrot-nibblers with long ears cause floods. The wolves descended on the rabbits, for their own good, and imprisoned them in a […]
Once upon a time there was a bird sanctuary in which hundreds of Baltimore orioles lived together happily. The refuge consisted of a forest entirely surrounded by a high wire fence. When it was put up, a pack of foxes who lived nearby protested that it was an arbitrary and unnatural boundary. However, they did […]
Seeing is deceiving. It’s eating that’s believing.
It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
A little crotch kicking is a good thing, if done in anger. I can’t stand guys who are merely piqued by the unforgivable.
I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I’d only be 48. That’s the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
