For Some Not To Be

Where Was It Ever Promised Us That Life On This Earth Can Ever Be Easy, Free From Conflict And Uncertainty, Devoid Of Anguish And Wonder And Pain? Those Who Seek The Folly Of Unrelieved 'happiness'-who Fear Moods, Who Shun Solitude, Who Do Not Know The Diginity Of Occasional Depression-can Find Bliss Easily Enough: In Tranquilizing Pills, Or In Senility. The Purpose Of Life Is Not To Be Happy.

Some Things Are So Unexpected That No One Is Prepared For Them.

First-rate People Hire First-rate People; Second-rate People Hire Third-rate People.

Why Did God Give Me Two Ears And One Mouth? So That I Will Hear More And Talk Less.

Humor Is, I Think, The Subtlest And Chanciest Of Literary Forms. It Is Surely Not Accidental That There Are A Thousand Novelists, Essayists, Poets Or Journalists For Each Humorist. It Is A Long, Long Time Between James Thurbers.