New proverbs to guide your life (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Those should be preserved too. The century needs all the wisdon it can get.

And they won't even need to use hundred-year paper.

JL

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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> These sound like the old "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey" from Saturday
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> > In its October issue, Mad magazine ran aprovocative article on
> > "Inspirational Wall Plaques That Never Caught On" (pp. 26-27).
> Credited with
> > the sayings on the plaques was Mad philosopher Jeff Kruse.
> > Some are just silly, but at least two should be quoted for as long as
> > civilization endures, which, if I've got it right, should be another
> > twenty or thirty years, tops:
> >
> > "Sometimes,
> > when God closes a door,
> > He closes it so painfully
> > on your fingers
> > that you stay away
> > from that door for good."
> >
> > "Whatever
> > doesn't kill me
> > only
> > makes me suffer
> > and wish
> > I were dead."
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> > JL
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