l. Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood.
2. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
3. Keep your juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.
4. Go very gently on the vices, such as carrying on in society – the social ramble ain’t restful.
5. Avoid running at all times.
6. Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.
SATCHEL PAIGE
MORE HELPFUL ADVICE FROM MANY SOURCES
OCCAM’S RAZOR
The principle of Occam’s razor suggests that
the simplest hypothesis is usually the correct one - -
or as the character Gil Grissom in “CSI: Crime
Scene Investigation” succinctly puts it, if you
hear hoofbeats “think horses, not zebras.”
Michiko Kakutani. New York Times (February 16,
2010)
**’
Don’t let your mouth write a check that
your ass can’t cash.
Anonymous
Don’t fatten frogs for snakes.
Anonymous
When you discover you are riding a dead horse,
the best strategy is to dismount.
Traditional wisdom of the Dakota Indians
Here is a rule I recommend. Never practice
two vices at once.
Tallulah Bankhead
What matters most is how well you walk
through the fire.
Charles Bukowski
If Your Plan Is for 1 Year, Plant Rice. If Your Plan
is for 10 Years, Plant Trees. If Your Plan Is for
100 Years, Educate Children
Confucius
It’s great there are so many demanding travelers
who raise their voices. It makes it easier for the
rest of us. Start out friendly and playful. The idea
is to convey “I like you and want you to enjoy
interaction.”
Chris Voss, a former F.B. I. negotiator, on how
to negotiate travel perks, in The New York Times
(February 2, 2020) Travel Section
Never give credence to ideas that occur to you
indoors, said Nietzsche, which I think I’ll take
as my New Year’s resolution.
Jeremy Clarke
The Spectator (l4 January 2006)
A Japanese friend of mind gave me a piece of advice,
which I should like to pass on to the general reader:
Never, he said, go for the most beautiful girl in the
brothel, avoid the best rooms – the ones on the first
and second floors; the beautiful girls are irritable
and greedy – they will certainly swindle you: always
go to the third floor, where the plain girls will be
much more pleased to see you, and consequently
give you a better time.
James Fenton. You Were Marvelous (Jonathan Cape, 1983)
…don’t accept a ride in a car with another hitchhiker.
Jules Feiffer. Backing Into Forward. (2010)
When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex,
there is an important lesson to be learned: Do not
have sex with the authorities.
Matt Groening
Satchel Paige
THE ANSWER IS: 345,465, 212 THE QUESTION IS: Where does Louis Phillips rank on Forbes’ list of the richest Americans? ** The doctor has told me that I have a disease known as“The Accountant’s Bookkeeping Disease.” That means my body has one set of cells that it shows to the doctor and a second set that is shown to the insurance companies. ** I am a very obedient human being. The other day I passed a shop that said “WATCH REPAIR.” So I did. ** CONTEMPLATING THE NONES Although some nuns Know about the nones, To me the nones Are one of the unknowns. No one I know Knows the nones. nones -- In the ancient Roman calendar the 7th day of March, May, July or October and on the 5th day of the other months. The American Heritage Dictionary (Fourth edition)
**
PhillipsMiscellany 
An adaptation of what I can only hope is a fairly accurate translation
of an insight attributed to a 13th century Iranian philosopher,
Naser od-Din Tusi, anticipating Donald Rumsfeld, of loving memory,
and the orange tweet now in the Oval Office, by eight hundred years
He who knows and knows that he knows
Can easily leap over life’s greatest obstacles
He who does not know but knows that he does not know
Can still achieve greatness even if at a slower pace
But he who does not know and does not know that he does not know
Is fucked
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I know that I don’t know. Where does that leave me?
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