You look tired.

You will step on the night soil of many countries.

Every cloud engenders not a storm. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

Stay away from flying saucers today.

Hope that the day after you die is a nice day.

I got a hint of things to come when I overheard my boss lamenting, 'The books are done and we still don't have an author! I must sign someone today! -- Tamim Ansary, "Edutopia Magazine, Issue 2, November 2004" on the topic of school textbooks

"...The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes'!" "Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to feel interested. "No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little vexed. "That's what the name is called. The name really is, 'The Aged Aged Man.'" "Then I ought to have said "That's what the song is called'?" Alice corrected herself. "No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is called 'Ways and Means': but that's only what it is called you know!" "Well, what is the song then?" said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered. "I was coming to that," the Knight said. "The song really is "A-sitting on a Gate": and the tune's my own invention." -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"

Good news. Ten weeks from Friday will be a pretty good day.

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old all down the unchanging days and die one day like any other day, only shorter. -- Samuel Beckett, "Malone Dies"

It is so very hard to be an on-your-own-take-care-of-yourself-because-there-is-no-one-else-to-do-it-for-you grown-up.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. -- J.R.R. Tolkien

Your motives for doing whatever good deed you may have in mind will be misinterpreted by somebody.

You are standing on my toes.

You will be winged by an anti-aircraft battery.

You may worry about your hair-do today, but tomorrow much peanut butter will be sold.

You should emulate your heros, but don't carry it too far. Especially if they are dead.

Delay not, Caesar. Read it instantly. -- Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" 3,1 Here is a letter, read it at your leisure. -- Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice" 5,1 [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when referring to I/O system services.]

I got a hint of things to come when I overheard my boss lamenting, 'The books are done and we still don't have an author! I must sign someone today! -- Tamim Ansary, "Edutopia Magazine, Issue 2, November 2004" on the topic of school textbooks

You'll be called to a post requiring ability in handling groups of people.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom. -- Mark Twain