Tuesday, October 16, 2007

SHREWISH Advice




L'IL MISS SHREW 'S PHILOSOPHY:

COMMON SENSE
FOR THE
COMMON MAN

SOME SHREWISH ADVICE

BRAIN VS. COMPUTER
THE FEELING OF POWER
by Isaac AsimovWorlds of Science Fiction,
February 1958




When did
COMMON
SENSE
become so
UNCOMMON?

BELIEVE
NOTHING,

No matter where
you read it,
or who said it –
even if I have said it –
unless it agrees with
YOUR
OWN REASON
and your own
COMMON SENSE.

Buddha






SUCCESS
is more a function
of consistent

COMMON SENSE

than it is of

COMMON SENSE

is the best SENSE
I know of.

Lord Chesterfield


EVERYBODY

gets so much information
all day long that
they lose their


Gertrude Stein

NOTHING
astonishes men
so much as
COMMON SENSE
and plain dealing.


Ralph Waldo Emerson


always speaks too late.

COMMON SENSE

is the guy who tells you you ought
to have had your brakes relined
last week before
you smashed a front end this week.



COMMON SENSE


is the Monday morning quarterback
who could have won the ball game




if he had been on the team.
but he never is.

He's high up in the stands with

a flask on his hip.

COMMON SENSE


is the little man in a grey suit
who never makes a mistake in addition,
but it's always somebody else's money
he's adding up.


Raymond Chandler

It is better to keep your mouth closed
and let people THINK you are a

FOOL

than to open it and
REMOVE ALL DOUBT.


Mark Twain
WRINKLES

should merely indicate where

SMILES have been.


Mark Twain


Gentlemen,

Chicolini here may

TALK like an IDIOT,

and LOOK like an IDIOT,

but don’t let that fool you.
He really is an
IDIOT!


Grouch Marx
To quit SMOKING is the easiest thing I ever did.
I ought to know because
I've done it a


THOUSAND times.


MARK TWAIN

GOIN' COLD TURKEY!

HEY DOC!

DON'T BE

SMOKIN'!!!