One Liners
• Imbesis Law: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty. Freeman’s extension: but you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean.
• Isabella of Spain bragged that she had had only two baths in her life—one when she was born, and the other when she married Ferdinand.
• They gave her a third when she died. An empty stable stays clean—but there is no income from an empty stable. – TLB
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Messy Desks
A survey of top-level executives at Fortune 1000 companies, conducted by New York based Jericho Promotions, found that the stock of messy-desk companies rose an average of 3.5 points while neat-desk stocks fell by one point.
From Adweek, 1995, quoted in Parade Magazine, December 31, 1995, p. 6
The Sapphire
10 year old Lawrence Shields was picking through a bucket of dirt at a commercial gem mine in North Carolina last week when he found an interesting rock. “I just like the shape of it,” he says. It turned out to be a 1061-carat sapphire. Lawrence and his parents say they’ve been told it could be worth more than $35,000.
From Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, quoted in Parade, December 31, 1995, p. 8
Farmer’s Market
A farmer went each week to the Farmers’ Market to sell, among other things, the cottage cheese and apple butter made on his farm. He carried these in two large tubs, from which he ladled the cottage cheese or apple butter into smaller containers the customers brought. One day he got to market and discovered he’s forgotten one ladle. He felt he had no choice but to use the one he had for both products. Before long he couldn’t tell which was which. That’s the way it is when we try to dispense the good news of Christ using hearts, minds, and tongues too recently immersed in the coarseness and one-up-manship of the world. Nobody gets any nourishment. – Beth Landers
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