Quite strnge definitions
Adler’s Distinction:
Language is all that separates us from the lower animals,and from the bureaucrats.
Modesty:
The gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Abbott’s Admonitions:
(1) If you have to ask, you’re not entitled to know.
(2) If you don’t like the answer, you shouldn’t have asked the question.
Charles Abbot, dean, University of Virginia
Murphy’s Laws:
(1) If anything can go wrong, it will.
(2) Nothing is as easy as it looks.
(3) Everything takes longer than you think it will.
People’s Action Rules:
(1) Some people who can, shouldn’t.
(2) Some people who should, won’t.
(3) Some people who shouldn’t, will.
(4) Some people who can’t, will try, regardless.
(5) Some people who shouldn’t, but try, will then blame others.
today, n.:
A nice place to visit, but you can’t stay here for long.
travel, n.:
Something that makes you feel like you’re getting somewhere.
