If you don't like the possum, enjoy the sweet potatoes
Subtitle: some principles for travel along the road of life
By: John H. Hayes
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781606087909
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: If you don't like the possum, enjoy the sweet potatoes; title: Give people enough rope and they will hang you; title: Never attack a skunk from the rear; title: One-armed persons make poor cotton pickers; title: Feed your enemy; it's always harder to fight with a full stomach; title: Life is less like a consommé and more like a stew; title: Certitude is the breeding ground of intolerance and violence; title: Try to live so your children won't want to piss on your tombstone; title: Nobody is ever greatly bothered by their own personally produced methane; title: If you own a male dog, eat the fruit from high off the tree; title: Don't burn your bridges before you cross them; title: Commuting is never back and forth but always forth and back; title: That nightmare may be Uncle Og and Aunt Ig fleeing from a saber-toothed tiger; title: Meat gets done, people get finished; title: Every person is an island; title: Visions of the hereafter should not distort the view of the here-and-now; title: Sometimes the most nourishing diet for the soul is to eat crow; title: Real empathy occurs when other people's tears flow down our cheeks; title: The older we get, the weirder our toenails grow; title: First curse the dark, then light a candle; title: Learn to buy high and sell low; title: Bless the day you realized that children, after all, had finally become adults; title: Neither it a thou or thou an it; title: Better emeritus than posthumous; title: Chase rabbits, you might scare up an elephant; title: Vengeance is far too sweet to be enjoyed by the almighty alone; title: We should all be fanatics for the cause of moderation; title: Speak softly but always be accompanied by a lawyer with a big stick; title: Try to bequeath your children more than a copy of your bankruptcy statement; title: Some of the time some of us have two faces, but all of the time all of us have four personas; title: A book of verses, a jusg of wine, a loaf of bread, and who needs a thou; title: The heart that has been broken can be mended; the heart that has been crushed can never be repaired; title: Develop a capacity to glorify the routine; title: When someone sets out to rehabilitate you, run like a scalded dog; title: Avoid having to pay alimony on your alimony payments; title: The highest tuition is always charged on lessons already learned; title: Beware of adjectival denigration or there never was a "good" Samaritan; title: In spite of added frills, a bathroom is still a toilet; title: If you couldn't kill it, you shouldn't eat it; title: The meaning is always in the prepositions; title: A mangy dog will let anybody scratch it; title: Cheap compliments are seldom worth their price; title: Learn to love those you don't even like; title: Don't create a situation where there are more piglets than teats; title: In our lying operations, fence construction is always the costliest expense; title: The cleanest uniforms are on those who play the least; title: The best news analysis is always on the late night comedy shows; title: Maybe things won't turn out well : the worrier should at least receive some reward; title: Always trust your spouse, but hire a good private investigator; title: If you are young, worry about the Laius not the Oedipus Complex; title: Appreciate the fact that the whole of creation was made just for you; title: History never repeats itself : we have to try to live it right the only time around.