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WISDOM

 

Wisdom is

the booby prize

given when you've been

unwise.

 

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PROBLEMS

 

Problems worthy

of attack

prove their worth

by hitting back.

 

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VITA BREVIS

 

A lifetime

is more

than

sufficiently long

for people

to get

what there is of it

wrong.

 

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LAST THINGS FIRST

 

Solutions to problems

are easy to find:

the problem's a great

contribution.

What is truly an art

is to wring from your mind

a problem to fit

a solution.

 

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WHAT LOVE IS LIKE

 

Love is like

a pineapple,

sweet and

undefinable.

 

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GOOD ADVICE

 

Shun advice

at any price -

that's what I call

good advice.

 

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TIMING TOAST

 

There's an art of knowing when.

Never try to guess.

Toast until it smokes and then

twenty seconds less.

 

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ON BEING ONESELF

 

If virtue

can't be mine alone

at least my faults

can be my own.

 

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THE DOUBLE DOOR EFFECT

 

Double doors are justified

because they're comfortably wide.

Therefore you only half undo'em:

and therefore nothing can get through'em.

 

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PRAYER (to the Sun above the clouds)

 

Sun that givest all things birth,

shine on everything on earth!

 

If that's too much to demand,

shine at least on this our land.

 

If even that's too much for thee,

shine at any rate on me.

 

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MEETING THE EYE

 

You'll probably find

that it suits your book

to be a bit cleverer

than you look.

 

Observe that the easiest

method by far

is to look a bit stupider

than you are.