Showing posts with label simplicity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label simplicity. Show all posts

Monday, January 21, 2008

Proof of the need for simplicity and slowness to attain JOY!

The average man eats in a hurry and gets dyspepsia. He walks in a
hurry and gets apoplexy. He talks in a hurry and begins to stutter.
He does business in a hurry and becomes bankrupt. He votes in a hurry and
produces corruption. He marries in a hurry and gets a divorce. He
trains his children in a hurry and develops spendthrifts and delinquents.
He makes his will in a hurry and leaves a legal contest. He dies in a
hurry and goes to the devil.


And his tribe steadily increases.

MORAL? Slow down.

-- author unknown (unfortunately!)

as quoted in Warriner's English Grammar and Composition, Harcourt Brace 1977, pg 305-306.