Better to keep peace than to have to make it

SPOILIN’ THE BROTH

Neighbor Grover sez he can’t figure out why Gorilla Glue doesn’t stick to the inside of the bottle.

Mid-terms have been over a week now. I’m really missing all those nice phone calls from our governor. Never even knew he knew me.

Anyway, congrats to all the winners and condolences to the losers. Or is it the other way around?

Here are some timely quotes:

• Ninety-eight percent of the adults in our country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It’s the other two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.— Lily Tomlin

• Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.— Mark Twain

• Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.—T.S. Eliot

• What luck for rulers that men do not think.— Adolph Hitler

• Italians come to ruin essentially in three ways—women, gambling and farming. My family chose the slowest one (farming).— Pope John XXII

• Better to keep peace than to have to make peace.—Albert Schweitzer

• Like all self-made men, he worships his creator.— John Greenleaf Whittier

More food for thought:

• The average person thinks he isn’t.—Father Larry Lorenzoni

• Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.—Doug Larson

• He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.—Abe Lincoln

• He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.—Arab proverb

• The poorest man would not part with health for money, and the richest man would gladly part with all his money for health.—C.C. Colton

• To lose one’s health renders science null, art inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.— Herophilus (300 B.C.)

• A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.—Spanish proverb

And finally, some marital advice:

• Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.—Phyllis Diller

bill@rockdalereporter.com