Smart Stuff

We are content to place a statue of Francis of Assisi in the middle of a bird bath and let the whole business of the saints go at that.
C. Kilmer Myers
It is easier to make a sain out of a libertine than out of a prig.
George Santayana
The only difference between the saint and the sinner […]

Million dollars: A sum that may be honestly acquired by putting aside five
hundred dollars out of one’s salary every week for forty years. Anon
We’re overpaying him but he’s worth it.
Samuel Goldwyn
People who take pains never to do any more than they get paid for, never get
paid for any more than they do.
Elbert Hubbard
Maybe they call […]

One’s man’s pointlessness is another’s barbed satire.
Franklin P. Adams

There is no profit in going to bed early to save candles if the result is twins.
Anon
When a man begins to think seriously of saving for a rainy day, it’s probably a
rainy day.
Anon
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
John Ciardi
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances
of the […]

On medical building:
Neuroses are red,
Depression is blue,
I’m schizophrenic,
How about you?
So I’m cured of schizophrenia - but where am I now that I need me? Graffiti
Two in every one people in this country are schizophrenic. Graffiti
You’re never alone with schizophrenia. Graffiti
Roses are red,
violets are blue,
I’m schizophrenic,
and so am I.
Frank Crow

A scholar without diligence is a lover without money.
Sa’di

A drug is a substance that when injected into a guinea pig produces a scientific
paper.
Anon
We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn’t for him, we’d be watching television by candlelight.
Milton Berle
Science knows only one commandment: contribute to science.
Bertolt Brecht
If God had approved of the metric system, he’d have given us ten […]

O ye’ll take the high road,
and I’ll take the low road.
And I’ll be in Scotland afore ye.
But me and my true love
will never meet again,
On the bonnie, bonnie banks o’ Loch Lomon’.
“The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomon”
Oats: A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland
supports the people.
Samuel Johnson
For the wife […]

The sea is calm tonight,
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits.
Matthew Arnold
“Dover Beach”
Aleck Woolcott and playwright Charles MacArthur once took a voyage to Europe
together. After their ship had been two days at sea, MacArthur emerged onto the
deck to join Aleck, confiding to him, “I can’t get over the feeling that I’m […]

Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by central heating.
Jack Sharkey
Playboy
Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The first day of Spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the
fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow.
Now […]