Miscellaneous observations on life

​Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. –Barbara Johnson

It’s important for parents to live the same things they teach. – Anon

The two agencies that redistribute great fortunes are taxation and offspring. – Anon

With the exception of world unrest, nothing breaks out in more places than an old garden hose. – Anon

A church council is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. – Anon

Live your life and forget your age. – Frank Bering

My clothes are addressed to women who can afford to travel with forty suitcases. – Yves Saint Laurent

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. – F M Hubbard

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind, but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them. – Hugh Walpole

Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn. – Robert Burns

Method is like packing things in a box; a good packer will get in half as much again as a bad one. – Sir Richard Cecil

It’s easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. – George Eliot

​If you would like to live a quiet, peaceful, uneventful life, you were born at the wrong time. – Anon

Originally posted in The Heath, May/June 2021