I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. They come from ahead and they come from behind. But I've bought a big bat, I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
-Dr. Suess

Just Say Galileo Was a Test-Tube Baby

Boy: Dad, who's more intelligent? The father or the son?
Dad: The father, of course.
Boy: Who invented the telescope?
Dad: Galileo Galilei.
Boy: Why didn't his father?

--Boracay, Philippines

Overheard by: jkcalma

via Overheard at the Beach, May 7, 2007

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement

Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
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