NOTE: many of the following (but not all of them) were written at a time in my life when I was extremely frustrated. For several years, I had been ramping up my own side business, and I was eager to go out on my own. But the side business was not yet profitable enough to support my family. I felt trapped. In early 2017, the break finally came. Since then, frustration and resentment that built up over many years are slowly ebbing away.
Like I always say, “Like I always say…”
People without a sense of humor shouldn’t kid themselves.
Anything worth doing right is worth doing in a timely manner. This is what people sometimes forget when they say that anything worth doing is worth doing right.
Blood is thicker than water. Never mind how putrid the blood or how sweet the water.
Blood is thicker than water. So is sewage.
There’s plain old thoughtless lack of communication and then there’s malicious lack of communication.
My brain is like Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lacunas. That’s “lacunae” for the more affected.
When a man is arrogant, and insults everyone around him, then everything he does is liable to criticism.
A preacher who never ponders will likely be ponderous, but never deep.
Adding “so” to the end of every utterance does not make you a man of consequence.
He had bested the berry by popping it in his mouth
This he initially thought.
But within a year the berry vines had taken over
The farm he thus had bought.
You’re like a genius in disguise!
Congratulations! That was almost professional.
A preacher must love The Word more than his words, The Manuscript more than his manuscript.
The fellow in the next cubicle is a hunt-and-peck typist. But his thumb always knows its position. Between each word, his thumb pounds its one key with authority. The result is a staccato rhythm that interrupts my thought.
Mixed metaphors are like when the fly is in the pudding.
At the top of a leader’s priorities is making sure that the people who work under him have everything they need to be productive. A man who does not take care of that cannot be a leader.
