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• He who blows at the foam in his beer is not thirsty. -- Talmud.
• He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself.
  Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity. -- The Talmud...
• There was an old pirate named Bates Who was learning to rhumba on skates.
  He fell on his cutlass Which rendered him nutless And practically useless on dates....
• This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother's side.
  I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them....
• Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
  -- Clifton Fadiman, "Enter Conversing...
• He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.