ISSUE 137 JULY 2010 •  CONTENTS •  HOME PAGE

 MISCELLANY

EndNotes

Life ...

Once you're born
It's time to die.
Once you laugh
It's time to cry.
When you're happy,
You end up sad.
When things are good,
They end up bad.
Mad, mad life!

                — Cathy, Rattle Your Cool,
                   Foster Care Associates

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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton,
they laughed at the Wright brothers.
But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

                                                                                                — Carl Sagan

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MOM'S ANSWER PHONE

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If I had my whole life to live over again,
I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
— Tallulah Bankhead

If I had my whole life to live over again,
I don't think I'd have the strength.
— Flip Wilson

 

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“It’s sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.”
                                                                            — Virginia Satir

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“iMac, iPod, iPhone ...? uWant, uBuy!”

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“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”

                                                                                                        — Erich Fromm

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“If you write your autobiography when you're old, you can see where you've been.
 If you write it when you're young, you can see where you're going!”