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Aphorisms
Each person has two selves, a lesser and a greater self. Each person has one shelf. ######################################## Nuclear proliferation means an A-bomb a nation. ############################################### The traveller's misfortune is the narrator's luck. ######################################### Gambling is the Devil's parody of faith. ############################################## In a debate between a doctor of divinity and a doctor of science, one affirmed that mankind could only be saved by divine intervention. The other countered that humanity could only be saved if it recognized the light of reason. Didn't they see they were saying exactly the same thing? ########################################### "Many millionaires I have encountered were prepared to give me half their fortune and more if I waited another day. If they hadn't been able to recognize a good bargain when they saw one, they would not have become millionaires." Death ########################################## Lady Astor to Winston Churchill. Sir, if I were you wife, I would give you poison. Churchill to Lady Astor. Madam, if I were your husband, I'd take it. ########################################### Old Jewish proverb. A hen-pecked husband has a hefty remission from purgatory. ######################################### An dialogue in Czarist Russia: Policeman to elderly Rabbi. "Where are you going?" Rabbi. "I don't know." Policeman: "Come along with me." Later at the police station. Policeman: "We shall have to release you, but why did you say you did not know where you were going? Rabbi. "Because I didn't. Thought I voz going to the synagogue, but look vere I am." ####################################### "Some are born drunk, some achieve drunkenness, and others have drunkenness thrust upon them." Critic Andrew Sinclair on Dylan Thomas ####################################### "A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." Oscar Wilde
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