The Fruit Untasted

 Life is more a basket of kumquats than a bowl of cherries -- the task you kumquat finish, the promise you kumquat keep, the "I'm sorry" you kumquat say. 

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Define Marriage

Disclaimer:  The following applies to marriages generally and not to any particular marriage I might be involved in.  😉

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Marriage:  the unforeseen consequence of a wedding.

Marriage:  a state of bliss in which if one partner dies unexpectedly, the other is the prime suspect.

Marriage: the process by which, after two become one, they decide which one.

Marriage:  a partnership formed with no clear objective and sustained by the absence of any clear alternative.

Four Thoughts

 It is a shame to keep a deep dark secret from the one person who might most help you to bear its burden.

It is sad when a relationship survives all the reasons it could never work only to fail because you neglected the reasons it should have worked.

There are words said in the heat of argument that cannot be unsaid.  You can only hope that love will unhear.

The ultimate test of love is a test of forgiveness, and no one so tested will ever ask again, "What is love?"  

As I See It

A working republic is a tangible entity, consisting of the government, the governed and a neutral third party mediator called the Constitution.  

A working democracy is an intangible ideal, defined by an enlightened leadership and supported by an essentially non-political electorate amenable to leadership.

The most basic progressive belief is that if we can get the rich to pay their fair share, we won't have to pay ours.

The most basic conservative belief is that if you weren't born to opportunity, you had your chance.

A political party is like any other conspiracy, the people it targets believing they are part of the conspiracy.

If we of the middle class nearly always support the rich over the poor, it is because we rightly believe that the poor want what we have while wrongly believing that the rich don't.

A free-enterprise system is a meritocracy where a few enterprising individuals eventually control most of the wealth, and where, if left unbridled, the most enterprising single individual eventually controls all the wealth.

Imperfection Anyone?

What if you eliminated all the faults in your character only to discover that the faults were the only character you had? 

There's nothing like a self-improvement program to discover what your friends used to like about you.

If we learn from our mistakes, shouldn't a job resume be a list of our mistakes?

You can be your own best friend, but happiness really begins when you become your own second-best friend.

It is less what love sees in you than what love chooses to overlook.

The hardest part of marrying "for better or worse" is when it's better for one and worse for the other.

Mozart died at 35.  Alexander the Great died at 32.  Makes you wonder what great things you might have achieved if you had only died young.

The Curmudgeon's Corner

 Next time my analyst says, "If you're unhappy, whose fault do you suppose that is?" -- I got a list of names in my hip pocket.

 "I dunno, seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there."


"There's an important distinction between denying reality and avoiding it whenever possible."


"Don't expect people to see the handwriting on the wall who can't see the wall."


Overheard: "There's not a deceitful bone in his body, but look out for his vocal chords."


"It is an assumption of the rich that those who are happy with little would be happier with less."


"Oh, to have back the nasty things I've said about myself in order to be the one who said them first."


"You get to an age when even your subconscious doesn't have any desires."

Idle Thoughts #2

 

To ask, "What will it all matter in the end?" is not an excuse to do nothing but a reason to act without delay.

To call anyone a complete fool is nearly always premature.

One thing you learn to do in life is to accept an apology that is past its "best if said by" date.

The more preposterous a belief, the louder the claim that there are irrefutable proofs nobody knows about.