The Notes (30 page)

S
ome tasks have to be put off a doz. times before they slip your mind.

W
hen all the cars in the city are laid end to end it’s a weekend.

I
gnorance can’t be bliss or a lot of people would be jumping up & down with joy.

I
f you wrote 9 people today & each of them wrote to 9 diff. people tomorrow & this continued for just 10 days—you’d reach 3,486,784,401.

U
pper crust . . . lot . . . old crumbs held together by dough.

T
o err is human—it takes a computer to really louse things up.

M
any foxes grow grey but few grow good.

W
orst wheel on the wagon makes the most noise.

A
n empty bag cannot stand upright.

C
ould say horse in 9 langs. but bought a cow to ride on.

T
ricks are the prac. of fools who haven’t the wit to be honest.

H
e who scatters thorns should not go barefoot.

C
onfidence—what you start out with before . . . understand . . . situation.