Articles

APPETIZERS The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you’re finished. — Benjamin Franklin Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. — Ray Cummings, The Time Professor (1921) If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him … Read more

KEEP A SUPPLY ON HAND FOR … When You Need It But Can’t Get It When we appeared at the recent Life Enhancement Symposium in Las Vegas, one of the things we discussed was how to plan ahead for upcoming shortages due to rationing under government health care programs. In this short supplement to our … Read more

APPETIZERS There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place. — Washington Irving When you came to examine the American Constitution, you found … Read more

APPETIZERS Can’t act, slightly bald, also dances. — RKO Pictures screen test, comments about Fred Astaire I suppose a knighthood is out of the question now? — Spike Milligan, in a fax to Prince Charles after he called him a “little groveling bastard.” A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to … Read more

APPETIZERS In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else, for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame. — Jose Raul Capablanca, Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to … Read more

APPETIZERS The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn’t have married Mrs. Khrushchev. — Nikita Khrushchev After The Wizard of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren’t all that many parts for lions. — Bert Lahr A lady came up … Read more

APPETIZERS Wiley’s Dictionary: Perfect health: The slowest possible rate at which one can die.— John L. Hart Studios Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.— Mark Twain The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because … Read more

APPETIZERS The trouble with borrowing money from China is that thirty minutes later you feel broke again.— Steve Bridges (as Barack Obama)Reality is what doesn’t go away when you stop believing in it.— Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you wish, but remember that it didn’t work for the rabbit.— R. E. … Read more

APPETIZERS He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. — Benjamin Franklin, 1758 Torture numbers, and they will confess to anything. — Gregg Easterbrook All men with power ought to be mistrusted. — — James Madison (1751-1836) Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do. — Irma Kurtz While there is … Read more

APPETIZERS We are especially moved by events that did not have to be, but that occurred for identifiable reasons subject to endless mulling and stewing …When we realize that the actual outcome did not have to be, that any alteration in any step along the way would have unleashed a cascade down a different channel, … Read more