Celebrating #100!!

September 9, 2019

Well, dear readers. This is blog #100.

My thanks to those of you who have endured my iconoclasm, sarcasm, rants, wanderings, mild plagiarism, and occasional drivel for the last two years and still open the weekly email.

I never imagined getting this far down the blogging road. According to one source I came across, most people who start blogs quit within 3 months.

My ego would naturally take that and say that I’m 8x better than most, but we all know that’s garbage. I’m just afraid to quit because once in a while some of you give me a stroke that hints that someday I may grow into being a real writer.

Given that there are over 600 million blogs in the world today and that 77.8 million blogs are published each month on WordPress and that 2 billion blog posts are being published each year worldwide – well, my sanity is up for question.

But some of you knew that even before I put my keyboard to a blog.

In recognition of #100, and to relieve you having to sort through and decipher another mini-epistle, I’m doing something a bit different this week.

I collect quotes. Hundreds of them. It helps me maintain my reputation as someone who can “cliché you to death.”

In our recent move, I uncovered a couple of forgotten boxes crammed with 3×5 cards with notes and quotes from books and articles I’ve read as far back as 20 years.

Hundreds of cards.

I’ve begun an 80% gleaning, narrowing my arsenal of clicheic hammers.

From that gleaning, I decided to share a few humorous and pithy quotes that I felt you might enjoy. Most of these came from a single Forbes article.

Thanks for being a reader. I’m looking forward to the next 100!

Thoughts on work

“ I have never liked working. To me, a job is an invasion of privacy.” Danny McGoorty
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take the chance?” Edgar Bergen
“I’ve been promoted to middle-management. I never thought I’d sink this low” Tim Gould
“No man ever listened himself out of a job.” Calvin Coolidge
“There ain’t no rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish something.” Thomas Edison
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” Richard Bach

Thoughts on ambition

“Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.” Edgar Bergen
“Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap vigors of the mind.” Leonardo DaVinci
“Life, as it is called, is for the most of us one long postponement.” Henry Miller
“A lazy man is never lucky.” Persian proverb
“What use is a good head if the legs won’t carry it?” Yiddish Proverb
“A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will condemn himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-hand friends.” Cyril Connolly
“The lazy are always wanting to do something.” Anonymous
“Life is the classroom; death is graduation.” Anonymous
“Nothing is ours but time and choices.” Anonymous

Thoughts on health

“Old people shouldn’t eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.” Robert Osborn
“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.” Redd Foxx
“I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.” Chauncey DePew
“Flies spread disease. Keep yours zipped.” Anonymous
“When I told my doctor I couldn’t afford an operation, he offered to touch up my x-rays.” Henny Youngman
“I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.” Johnny Carson

Miscellaneous

“The only advantage of being a pessimist is that all your surprises are pleasant”
“Always do right because that will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” Mark Twain
“Smile – the shortest distance between two people.” Victor Borge

See you next week