I don’t meet many people with a mind like a steel trap Instead, the really smart people tend to have minds like trawling n… to catch the really big fish
When I got to the front of the self-checkout line I assumed there’d be a mirror but to my surprise and delight it was even better than I’d hoped
Only a fool believes that the river obeys the riverbed
Asked for his thoughts on God the materialist replied Nothing doing The mystic said Exactly
If life is the in-breath and death the out-breath we presume that by ridding ourselves of death we’ll live an infinite in-breath
Time is money But time stops at the speed of lig… Which means the buck stops, too Making enlightenment the act of ta… For how you’ve spent your time
I told my daughter Let me give you some free advice: You get what you pay for And she said I don’t get it
The fear of God is hard to define… Like many things You know it when you see it Which is whenever you witness some… Summon the courage to do what must…
We fear that the long game Is a long, lost game Because we find ourselves lost Forgetting how, on the surface of… We can plow forward in trust
For those who are real– ly asking, the truth is al– ways multi-tasking
Just when you think You’ve seen it all It all falls apart So, you put it back together again Thinking this time it’s forever
I’ve started blind copying my wife on emails to myself
They call it open heart surgery But no one says open brain surgery Because, by default Our minds are closed And the only way to change minds
The original version’s working title was The Giveth and Taketh Away Tree but Silverstein couldn’t get it published
History’s first lesson– the ABCs– is that, unless coerced not to people kill the ones they hate History’s second lesson–
