The Notes (39 page)

I
f at 1st you don’t succeed, do it the way she told you.

A
compliment may be blunt, but criticism calls for courtesy.

P
rosperity is something created by businessmen for politicians to take credit for.

M
od. styles—buckle shoes, loafers, moccasins. A man can earn his Ph.D. without learning to tie his shoelace.

T
eacher asked kid what he did to care for his teeth—“watch out for kids who shove at the drinking fountain.”

I
nflation—that’s the price we pay for those govt. benefits everybody thought were free.

W
hat with a major flu epidemic & a bad snow storm, Wash. D.C. was in a bad way. Reporter doing a story on the sit. called a big govt. agency to see how it had been affected. The asn. he got revealed more than intended. A cheerful voice said “we’re functioning normally—with only 1/2 our staff”

S
am Levinson raised in a tenement says “never knew my family was underprivileged. We thought we slept 5 in a bed because it was more fun that way”

T
here is nothing wrong with them that trying to reason with them won’t aggravate.

N
eighbor asked a little boy how many children in the family. “Seven.” My that must cost a lot. “Oh no—we don’t buy ’em—we raise ’em.”

G
ovt.—like—brassiere—oppresses—opulent—uplifts—fallen & deceives—unwary.

C
an’t beat the logic of a fisherman when he wants to stay at it another few hours. One reason of course is because the fish are biting—the other is because they aren’t.

A
lbert was so slow in learning to talk his parents thought he was abnormal. His teacher called him a misfit and his classmates avoided him. He failed his 1st college entrance exam—Albert’s last name was Einstein.