Aphorisms
Published by Rick on Tuesday, January 27, 2009.Hush, little bright line, don’t you cry,
You’ll be a cliché by and by.
Fred Allen.
You’ll be a cliché by and by.
Fred Allen.
There is no greater burden in life than being recognised as having great potential.
From the Editor’s personal experience.
We always overestimate the cost of doing the right thing and always underestimate the ultimate cost of doing the wrong thing.
Eddy Edmondson.
You know you are getting old when you unzip your trousers, pull out your tie and pee in your pants.
A very dear American friend who wishes to remain anonymous.
Don’t get drunk with a dwarf with learning difficulties – it’s not big and it’s not clever.
Annie van Alphen.
Never flirt with ugly men if you have had more than three martinis (don’t ask me how I know this).
Annie van Alphen restated.
Continuous improvement requires something continuous to improve.
Ron Edmondson.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s probably a duck. (It might be a swan, but it’s probably a duck.)
Russell Edmondson.
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
Take care with fast cars and fast women, and never split a pair of fours at blackjack.
James Edmondson, the most advice about life that can be contained in the fewest words that can be given to a young man.
Steer clear of cheap women and cheap champagne, and never split a pair of fours at blackjack.
James Edmondson restated.
Never pass up an opportunity to use a toilet, never trust a fart and treat every erection as a thing of wonder – it might be the last one you ever see.
Roy Callow, the most advice about life that can be contained in the fewest words that can be given to a gentleman of more mature years.
If you don’t watch the horizon you won’t be able to shoot the Indians before you are within bow and arrow range.
Ray Edmondson on strategy.
Better nouveau riche than no riche at all.
From the Editor’s personal observation.
Better nouveau riche than vieux pauvre.
The Editor’s personal observation restated.
The fundamental defect of fathers is they want their children to be a credit to them.
Claudia Edmondson.
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson, not as an example.
George Bernard Shaw.
If we don’t change direction now, we’ll end up where we are heading.
American Indian proverb.
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