QUOTATIONS FROM RICHARD EINER PETERSON

A chain-link fence does not keep out the water.

A clam without sand has no pearl.

A duck uses water to its advantage.

All life requires is that you give it a good shake, rattle, and roll.

An old prune should not try to look like a peach

... as likely as hitting a home run with a toothpick.

Every statement has a grain of truth, even this statement.

... has the IQ of a decimal point.

How can you summarize in black and white the rainbow of life?

How do I feel, you ask?
If I say not that bad
You'll say "That's good."
If I say not that good
You'll say "That's too bad."

Humans die a thousand deaths before they die their one death.

I don't resent the past and its mistakes anymore than summer resents spring.

I talk but little when you do little but talk.

In darkness, all colors are the same. Death is like darkness. It is the Great Equalizer. That's why we don't like it.

In her I see the velvet and sense the steel.

In water,when you try to sink, you float and when you try to float, you sink.

Is it because you are buried in thought that you have such a grave appearance?

Is 4 o'clock happy now that 3 o'clock is over?

Life is not all magnolias and moonlight.

... like comparing a mud-hen to a rooster.

... like curing the infected thumb by cutting off the hand.

Like yeast, he rises to the occasion when the heat is on.

Might as well ask an ant to jump over the moon.

Might as well shine a flashlight into the sun.

... ping pong moods.

Reality is just a paint brush looking for a canvas.

Remember: wherever you go, once you get there, where do you go from there?

That puts the dart in the bull's-eye.

That puts the puck in the cage.

The biggest issue today is the disparity in parity.

The dream he had became a snowball that melted in his hands.

The Law of the Hens is that you cackle after the egg is laid.

The more food for thought I give you, the more indigestion you seem to get.

The older I get, the longer it takes me to do less and less ... it won't be long before it takes me forever to do nothing.

The only thing some people learn from their mistakes is how to blame them on someone else.

The problem of life is to sort the pith from the blather.

The problem with economists is that they put too much ceteris in their paribus.

The reason for flashy clothes on old folks: You gotta spruce up the old oak tree!

There is no death, but the circle of life does close.

There is Yin in the Yang, and Yang in that Yin.

The tree is not felled by the first chop.

There is so much fat in bureaucracy that it's hard to find a muscle that can take action.

They are so smooth that they could tell you to go to hell in such a way that you would look forward to the trip.

Things are better than they were, but better than bad is still lousy.

Whether circumstances make you bitter or better --
That's going to be up to you.

You must not assume longevity when there is brevity.
Corollary: You must not assume brevity when there is longevity.