HOW DANGEROUS IS A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE COMPARED TO NO KNOWLEDGE? "In some situations where a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, it is still less dangerous than no knowledge." BH |
FRUSTRATION IN THE CEREAL AISLE While shopping in a grocery store the other day, I saw an elderly lady muttering to herself in the cold cereals section. As she got closer to me, I heard her say, "I could find what I was looking for if they didn't have 900 different types of cereal. I decided to come to her rescue. "What are you looking for?" I asked. "Maple-flavored mini-wheats," she answered. After searching all 900 boxes of cereal twice I turned up empty-handed, reported my failure, and left before I heard what she had to say about me. BH |
| Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools dwcoyed into our condition. Samuel Pepys 1633-1703 Quoted in The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, edited by Evan Esar (DORSET Press, 1949) |
