What more encourages us to waste our time other than there is more of it to waste if we don’t?

In the scales where the ordinary is measured everyday, the exotic is just another kind of strange fruit in the market place.

It is a general truth commonly accepted amongst the ignorant that even an ignoramus could be seen as being clever sometimes, but not often.

Logic can lead you a merry dance, until you finally realize that you cannot fly gracefully out of your bedroom window wearing a fully functional birdman suit, and not also expect to fly gracefully up the garden path as well.

There’s nothing like getting a birthday card one month before it’s one’s birthday, which naturally tops not getting one at all.

A bore is someone who knows enough about people to hold a conversation, but not why to have it with anybody but himself.

Power commands respect, but can only demand the going price for it.

Life is way too short to be taken with a pinch of salt. Eternity, though, is far too long not to be taken any other way.

The stranger in society is usually asked to “go away”, which is probably why there are so many strange people travelling about the world.

Being just “a little too clever” is never really much good, especially when there’s no real money in it.

Only the most uncouth of individuals don’t quickly step away from each other when they want to, even when it is all one-sided.

One-fifth of people are permanently dead-set against everything, all the time; the remainder could go either way, depending on the state of the whether.

People, being points of view, in essence tend to go off in tangents all over the place, but, still, keep on pointing anyway.

That wealth which is not valued cannot be held, and sometimes not even fondled.

A useful idea cannot be used without earning the right to use it first, or at least nothing good can be made out of it.

It’s never too late for someone who’s young enough for it to make a new start, but that should never prevent anyone from pursuing an old one.