To: D LEE who wrote (6425 ) 8/17/1998 9:57:00 AM From: AJ Berger Respond to of 62549
Aphorisms For Our Time > (aphorism: 1. A brief statement of a principle. > 2. A tersely phrased statement of an observation or truth) > > 1. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name. > > 2. Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before. > > 3. The 2 most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and > stupidity. > > 4. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on > society. > > 5. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. > > 6. Money can't buy happiness. But it sure makes misery easier to live > with. > > 7. Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check. > > 8. Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by moving from where you > left them to where you can't find them. > > 9. Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn. > > 10. If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book. > (COROLLARY: If you are given a take-home test, you will forgetwhere you > live.) > > 11. The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody > appreciates how difficult it was. > > 12. It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a > warning to others. > > 13. Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor. > > 14. The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the > average man can see better than he can think. > > 15. Paranoids are people too; they have their own problems. It's easy to > criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too. > > 16. A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell and make you > feel happy to be on your way. > > 17. Eagles may soar, but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines. > > 18. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. > > 19. A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. > > 20. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. > > 21. For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. > > 22. Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view. > > 23. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is > research. > >