Collection of Philosophy ======================== If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. He who hesitates is probably right. Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with. No one is listening until you make a mistake. Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view. The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required on it. The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. To succeed in politics it is often necessary to rise above your principles. Two wrongs are only the beginning. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not reached their level of incompetence. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. (The corollary is: You never learn to pray until your kids learn to drive!) The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with something bigger and heavier. Never accept a drink from a urologist. -Erma Bombeck Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial. -Sydney Biddle Barrows, the "Mayflower Madam" Never say "Oops" in the operating room. -Dr. Leo Troy Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire. -Dan Zevin Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day. -Harry S. Truman Never thrust your sickle into another's corn. -Publius Syrus Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. -G. K. Chesterton Never play peekaboo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, "Look, it's always gonna be me!" -Rita Rudner Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide. -Woodrow Wilson Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. -Winston Churchill Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts. -Ruth Gordon