Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (March 20, 2010)
Misplaced Virtue Faithful women are all alike. They think only of their fidelity and never of their husbands. … Jean Giraudoux From the Internet A Smile for You Smiling is infectious; you catch it like […]
Misplaced Virtue Faithful women are all alike. They think only of their fidelity and never of their husbands. … Jean Giraudoux From the Internet A Smile for You Smiling is infectious; you catch it like […]
The Radical Believer To a thinking person atheism is a prerequisite to spiritual enlightenment. However, it is not the end of the line. According to G.B. Shaw, that occurs when atheism is followed by mysticism. […]
Latin Proverb Beware the man of one book. Upon Reflection Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out. … Arthur Schopenhauer From the […]
So that’s the Clue Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. …Suzanne Necker From the Word Lab Walnut: The foreign nut; called in M.E. walnote, from O.E. wealh, foreign. It came from Persia, […]
Clever Analysis The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t. …Henry Ward Beecher Daffy-nition Obstinacy: The strength of the weak. […]
A Spanish Proverb A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. Elegy for a Departed Nobleman The noble Earl of Sandwich is departed, His lordship is decidedly deceased. No man was […]
How About Infamy? Fame is the beginning of the fall of greatness. … V.V. Rozinov A Clean Limerick There was a young lady named Ruth, Who had a great passion for truth. She said she […]
From the Internet Many years ago in a small Indian village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied […]
Pretty Strong Words Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. I may grow rich by an art that I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I […]
From The Devil’s Dictionary Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. —Ambrose Bierce A Different Man When a woman who asked Philip of Macedon to do her justice was snubbed […]
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