"Take a pencil and paper.” The teacher said “and write an essay

with the title ‘If I were a millionaire’.

    Everyone but Philip, who leaned back with arms folded furiously.

    “What’s the matter? The teacher asked. “Why don’t you begin?”

    “I’m waiting for my secretary” he replied.

Walking into a lawyer’s office, a man asked what his rates were.

    “Fifty dollars for three questions”, the lawyer stated.

    Isn’t that awfully expensive?” the man asked.

    “Yes, the lawyer replied. “What’s your third question?

-readers digest

I learned from experienced that if there was something lacking, it might turn up if I went after it, worked for it, but never if I waited for it. Of course you have to be lucky too, although I discovered that the more I rustled the luckies I seemed to set. Besides, most of the happiness was in the pursuit.

As my uncle Benny used to say, “It’s not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring”

-you can’t say that again, Sam! (pocket book)