“For Your Own Good” is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man

agree to his own destruction.

Janet Frame.

There is a proverb,

“As you have made your bed, so you must lie in it”. Which is simply a lie.

If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God, I will make it again.

G. K. Chesterton.

The trouble with sharing one’s bed with cats

is that they’d rather sleep on you than beside you.

Pam Brown.

Progress is Man’s ability to complicate simplicity.

Thor Heyerdahl – Norwegian Adventurer.

When you are old and grey and full of sleep

And nodding by the fire, take down this book

And slowly read and dream of the soft look

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

W. B. Yeats.

We all get heavier as we get older because there’s a lot more information in our heads.

Basketball player – Vlade Divac.

Don’t weep at my grave for I am not there,

I’ve a date with a butterfly to dance in the air.

I’ll be singing in the sunshine, wild and free

Playing tag with the wind, while waiting for thee.

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“It was involuntary. They sank my boat”.

John F. Kennedy – on being asked how he became a war hero.

I didn’t go to church today,

I trust the Lord to understand.

The surf was swirling blue and white,

The children swirling on the sand.

He knows, He knows how brief my stay,

How brief this spell of summer weather,

He knows when I am said and done

We’ll have a plenty of time together.

Ogden Nash published this verse in 1968, three years before his death, in “There’s Always Another Windmill”.

Don’t go to a school reunion.

There’ll be a lot of old people there claiming to be your classmates.

Comedian/Actor Tom Dreesen.