Life on Andy Foster

After you know it all

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Faith is a cop-out

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.

Making the best of it

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Normal

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, the car, and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.

Specialization is for insects

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

The average of five

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

This day will never dawn again

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Think that this day will never dawn again.

Two classes of people

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.