Are you ready for divorce?

There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who won’t.

Josh Billings

PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

Wait! Wait!

Don’t tell me that you are not married!

Don’t tell me that you love your spouse so much that you’ll never divorce her or him!

I am not talking about dissolving marriage.

I am talking about your readiness to listen, to think, be flexible, to part with your opinions if it makes sense.

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Several weeks ago a couple of friends visited us in Pocono Manor. We had a very nice time together and we discussed different topics. They mentioned that their grandson (who is a college graduate) had opinions about everything and became angry and rude if somebody had expressed a different opinion.

It did not surprise us. We hear very often that students and professors are against discussions in universities, that they simply vote against allowing people with different opinions to speak on campuses.

I remember with great love wonderful teachers who gave us…

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Funny quotes to remember.

I am sleepy today. Before the next burst of activity I decided to reblog this old post. It’s good to remember quotes below.

PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

Albert Einstein

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Jim Carrey

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Mark Twain

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God’s gifts

I got an email from Chicago with Russian jokes in it.

During our morning’s walk I told my wife one of them and she liked it.

Then I asked Google Translate to help me and edited the translation.

Here is what we got:

“Adam and Eve frolicking in the garden. God descends to them and says: “My children, I have two gifts for you. You’ll have to decide which one to whom. The first gift is peeing standing up “…

Adam begs to let him have the first gift. He says that it is his lifelong dream. Eve yields to him. And Adam runs through the garden, rejoicing, jumping, screaming, and peeing on trees, flowers, insects and simply on the ground.

Then Eve asks: “Lord, what is your second gift?”

God answers: “Brains, Eve. Brains.”

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PS. I hope that translation is good enough to express the idea. Please let me know if there is a similar original joke in English.   

Funny quotes to remember.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

Albert Einstein

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Jim Carrey

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Mark Twain

Several quotes about promises.

“Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.”  ~Norman Vincent Peale

“A promise made is a debt unpaid.” 

~Robert Service

“An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.”  ~William Dean Howells

“Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.”  ~Denis Waitley

Several quotes about treaties.

Charles De Gaulle – “Treaties are like roses and young girls — they last while they last.”  

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Benjamin Franklin – “Mad kings and mad bulls are not to be held by treaties and packthread.”

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Thomas Hobbes – “Covenants without the sword are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.” 

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I am sure you know what I have in mind. Any comments?

Under influence of rain.

Tonight I saw the movie “Love Crime” and I liked it.

If you did not see the movie you can read about it HERE.

As I mentioned in several posts I always liked and admired smart strong women. If they were also beautiful it was fine but it was not really that important

On the way home heavy rain started and I came home in wet condition (I hope very much that you’ll forgive me this expression).

I took a hot shower, drank a hot tea and thought a bit about the movie.

Then I remembered the article by Hanna Rosin “Men are obsolete” that I already discussed in the post  “A look from a different angle (part 2).”

The two women in the movie “Love Crime” are smart, strong and beautiful. They are top executives in a large company. Should we admire them? Is it a good prove that men are obsolete? Is it good for modern society that women who reach top positions behave the way these two women behave in the movie? Is it a victory of feminism?

I read many times in different blogs statement: “I am a feminist”.

Could anyone be so kind to explain to me what this statement means in America and other countries of the West today?

Please let me know.

Three funny quotes?!

I really don’t know why all these quotes were in “funny quotes”.

From my point of view, all of them are extremely serious and real.

For example, who can argue with the first quote below? We can see different realities almost in every family or political dispute.

It is also clear that the second quote here is simply a fact. I am sure that no person in FBI will say that it is not true.

Finally, the quote about COMMON SENSE. Surely, it is a rare commodity today. There is no wonder that people prefer to save it for the distant future.

Internet is a very strange place. I wonder who decided that these quotes were funny?