Somebody Who Never Got Over The Embarrassing

The Severest Test Of Character Is Not So Much The Ability To Keep A Secret As It Is, When The Secret Is Finally Out, To Refrain From Disclosing That You Knew It All Along.

The Most Important Thing In An Argument, Next To Being Right, Is To Leave An Escape Hatch For Your Opponent, So That He Can Gracefully Swing Over To Your Side Without Too Much Apparent Loss Of Face.

The Public Examination Of Homosexuality In Our Contemporary Life Is Still So Coated With Distasteful Moral Connotations That Even A Reviewer Is Bound To Wonder Uneasily Why He Was Selected To Evaluate A Book On The Subject, And To Assert Defensively At The Outset That He Is Happily Married, The Father Of Four Children And The One-time Adornment Of His College Boxing, Track And Tennis Teams.

A Famously Wise Old Man In A Village Was Once Asked How He Came By His Wisdom. "i Got It From My Good Judgment," He Answered. And Where Did His Good Judgment Come From? "i Got It From My Bad Judgment."

Usually, If We Hate, It Is The Shadow Of The Person That We Hate, Rather Than The Substance. We May Hate A Person Because He Reminds Us Of Someone We Feared And Disliked When Younger; Or Because We See In Him Some Gross Caricature Of What We Find Repugnant In Ourself; Or Because He Symbolizes An Attitude That Seems To Threaten Us.