The average man’

The average man’
The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.
  

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Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
Buying ischeaper than asking.
Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.
Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.
There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.
The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.
Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.
In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.