Not a lot of people know it, but I’m pretty famous.
(paraphrasing Sam Malone from Cheers)
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
90% of this game is half mental.
Both of these attributed to Lawrence P. Berra.
I think astrology’s a load of rubbish. We Tauruses are sceptical like that.
Mark Twain once wrote “I was going to send you a short letter, but I didn’t have time, so I wrote a long one instead”.
My favorite Yogi Berra is “That restaurant is getting so popular, nobody eats there anymore.”
That isn’t necessarily nonsensical or self-contradictory. (I’ve heard the same quote attributed to the French philosopher and theologian Blaise Pascal.) It can in fact be easier and quicker to “let it all out”, stream-of-consciousness-wise; than to take the time and trouble to craft a communication which strives to put what one wants to say, as succinctly and neatly as possible.
Fumblerules of grammar, created by the late great William Safire in his NY Times column On Language. My favorite is a paraphrased of rule #32: As you are walking though the valley of the shadow of death, do not use too many prepositional phrases.
Remember, you are a unique individual. Just like everyone else.
Nostalgia isn’t as good as it used to be.
Josef Tura, Jack Benny’s character in To Be or Not to Be, was described as being “world famous in Poland”.
Ha, that one cracked me up. I hope I can remember it and use it.
-There’s a lot to be said for keeping your mouth shut.
Regards,
Shodan
I knew that, and the reason the statement is “catchy” is precisely because it embodies an apparent paradox.
Here’s another – “They don’t make things the way they used to, and never did”.
You have to make your own decisions in life- ask anybody!
Take my word for it- you can’t trust anyone.
I might be inconsistent, but not all the time.
Nothing is certain, you can be sure of that.
I’m not sure why she asked me to explain Occam’s Razor- I can only surmise that there must be some very strange, complicated sinister reason.
There is no statement that is true all the time.
Regards,
Shodan
I took a placebo this morning. I think it’s working.
I used to be conceited, but now I’m perfect. It’s said that all extremely intelligent men are stuck up, but that’s not true… I’m not. I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong.