When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.
I never see any home cooking – all I get is fancy stuff.
If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an airplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.
People think there’s a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.
Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We’re in for a major disaster if it isn’t curbed…We have no option. If it isn’t controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation, and war.
I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers that it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist? I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.
The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet are absolutely vital if future generations are to have a chance to enjoy their existence on this earth.
A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone’s working too much. Now everybody’s got more leisure time they’re complaining
they’re unemployed. People don’t seem to make up their minds about what they want.
Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.
Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I’ve practiced for many years.