Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (July 4, 2015)
Super-Diplomacy We have read your manuscript with boundless delight. If we were to publish your paper, it would be impossible for us to publish any work of lower standard. And as it is unthinkable that […]
Super-Diplomacy We have read your manuscript with boundless delight. If we were to publish your paper, it would be impossible for us to publish any work of lower standard. And as it is unthinkable that […]
Folk Wisdom People will believe anything if you whisper it. From the Word Lab Wrangle for an Ass’s Shadow: To contend about trifles. The tale told by Demosthenes is that a man hired an […]
On Controversy If a cause be good, the most violent attack by its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends. … Walter Colton Illustrious […]
Armenian Proverb Can one start a fast with katah in one’s hand? Self-centeredness We would rather run ourselves down than not talk about ourselves at all. … La Rochefoucauld From Churchill’s Famous Speech […]
Twice Golden A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but, after a while, knows something. … Wilson Mizner Popular Wisdom A good education enables you to earn more than a good educator. […]
The Triple Threat Three things can ruin a man—money, power, and women. I never had any money. I never wanted power, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now. […]
The Virtue of Hardship If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished? … Rumi, 13th-century Persian poet Sanskrit Proverb The dexterous make even untruths appear truths as those skilled in […]
The Viking Reminder Always remember to pillage before you burn. Daffy-nition Liberty: the privilege of being free from things we don’t like so that we can be slaves of things we do. The Countess of Nottingham […]
Masquerade We are so used to disguising ourselves from others that we end by disguising ourselves from ourselves. …La Rochefoucauld A Culinary Secret Accidents will happen. That’s why there are so many […]
Nature’s Perversity There are people whose defects become them, and others who are ill served by their good qualities. … La Rochefoucauld Armenian Proverb On a rainy day many offer to water the chickens. […]
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