How they pile the poor little craft mast-high with fine clothes and big houses; with useless servants, and a host of swell friends that do not care twopence for them, and they do not care three ha'pence for; with expensive entertainments that nobody enjoys, with formalities and fashions, with pretense and ostentation, and with--oh, heaviest, ( Read more... )

A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a ( Read more... )

Russell Rainville: "Amanda left the physics department where she could study astronomy to join the math department where she could study real aliens."

Mike Hughes: "I thought Paul Gies was on sabbatical."

A Brief History of Gravityby Bruce Elliot ( Read more... )

"Maybe this is the sort of moment when riddles have an afterglow of their own, a wisdom that illuminates the edges of experience when nothing else can. In a world where half of the villagers always lie and half of them always tell the truth; where the hare never catches the tortoise because the distance between them shrinks by a never-collapsing ( Read more... )

"'We now know two highly important things about people . . . One, there's something fundamentally wrong with them, and, two, they have no certain knowledge about how they ought to live--and never will have any. It seems as though there should be a connection between these two things ( Read more... )

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

Two partners should try
To be honest without being vicious
To be open without being undermining
To be mutual without invading the other's privacy
To be trusting without being blind
To be respectful without idolizing
To share without controlling
To love without possessing

"Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don't measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare."-Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Your Erroneous ZonesThis reminds me of a conversation I had with one of my friends, Jack. When I said I have trouble making friends, he replied, simply, " ( Read more... )