More Miscellany

Nothing lasts forever, and eventually even forever runs short on time.

Genius is mostly perseverance, and perseverance is mostly patience.

Genius is being smart enough to do it and fool enough to try it. 

The trouble with life is that the events that mature you all come prematurely.

There is a constant battle between courage and cowardice to become your better judgment.

At some point in life we're asked to decide -- do we want to be a 9 on a scale of 1 to 10 or a 5 on a scale of 1 to 5?

Better to doubt and be doubted than wake up each morning with nothing to prove.

Random Ruminations

I don't know if we're all children of God, but I'm reasonably sure it's all or none.

My personal take on the night sky is that it's something that somewhere along the line got completely out of hand.

Meanwhile, my quest for fame finds me at age 88 still living my backstory.

Life is like a fancy restaurant -- it will always try to seat you at the worst table you will accept.

Life is a brief moment in eternity when you can't claim you were somewhere else at the time.

It is silly to blame yourself for every misfortune in your life, besides which it's too early.

I don't claim that it's always somebody else's fault, but since there's only one me and eight billion somebody elses, I like the probability. 

Hard-Learned Lesson #14

Never wonder, when you ask so little of life, why life gives you so little.

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Thoughts at 88

 Been noticing wrinkles around my eyes -- laugh crinkles, I suppose, but for the life of me, I can't remember the joke.

At 88 I don't know everything, but you tell me how it starts, I can usually tell you how ends.

Politics, Anyone?

 Headline from the nation's capital: "Horse Gone.  Congress Debates Bill To Close Barn Door."

There is no greater spur to political action than the realization that it's too late.

 When the truth is not believed, lying is unnecessary.

Rarely is a fool made wise by winning an election. 

The problem with creating a more informed electorate is that those elected don't see it as a problem. 

Nobody runs for political office who does not have a need to exert power over others and who is not, to that extent, mentally ill.

As Wise As I'm Likely To Get

On the one hand, you don't want to be somebody's fool, but on the other hand, that is where most happiness lies.

How few lies you would hear if the only lies you heard were from liars. 

A problem common to every day and age is that everyone shares the same day but not the same age.

The time to despair is when you have clearly identified the purpose it would serve.

Trust in human decency and be extremely patient.

A Few Stray Thoughts

There is a time in life to trust your better judgment, but first, sadly, you must make the mistakes that create it.

Adolescence: the process of verifying what our parents teach us by learning it all over again for ourselves.

  

I am not a reporter, so I can't give you information "based on my reporting," but if you want, I can give you a guess based on my guesswork.

Perhaps the reason we know so little of the next life is the scarcity of "sources familiar with the situation."