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"You are old," said the youth, "and I'm told by my peers
That your lectures bore people to death.
Yet you talk at one hundred conventions per year --
Don't you think that you should save your breath?"
"I have answered three questions and that is enough,"
Said his father, "Don't give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you downstairs!"
If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad,
he should see how bad it is with representation.
Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.
-- French Proverb
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do
the work.
-- John G. Pollard
If there are epigrams, there must be meta-epigrams.
The government [is] extremely fond of amassing great quantities of
statistics. These are raised to the _nth degree, the cube roots are
extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive
displays. What must be kept ever in mind, however, is that in every
case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts
down anything he damn well pleases.
-- Sir Josiah Stamp
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to
guarantee them.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
-- Aesop
Sunday, 18 October 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
