Laughter
The Life of the City-Folks
“I’m a City Boy. When I hunt, it’s for a parking place. And when I fish, it’s for compliments.”
**Jon Carroll
Not sure if that is comforting or depressing? But still good for Bar Exam takers!
For my friends taking the legal bar exam, because sometimes it’s good to remember that there are at least 5 billion people who will never know or care about your results 🙂 **DB
“No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats — approximately one billion Chinese citizens couldn’t care less.”
**ANON
Giving Joy
“If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that–warm things, kind things, sweet things–help and comfort and laughter–and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.”
**A Little Princess
Amuse not Abuse
“My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.”
**Charlie Chaplan
Silly Human
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience?”
~~George Bernard Shaw
A Drama King by Birth
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
~~William Butler Yeats
The Illusive Train
“The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.”
~~G. K. Chesterton
A Happy Wedding
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
**Michel de Montaigne
The Good Child Gone Bad
“I was so naive as a kid, I used to sneak behind the barn and do
nothing.”
–Johnny Carson
Lol, this was me as a teen, my rebellious years so weren’t rebellious.