Bro. Bill's Rules

To be satisfied with a little is difficult. To be satisfied with a lot is impossible. - Bro Bill's Rules #2

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family with eight brothers and two sisters. And as the second oldest, I have felt an obligation to pass along to my siblings some of the wisdom that I have collected over the years. I don't take credit for coming up with all these items, but rather with just collecting them.

These items are called "Brother Bill's Rules" and they used to be included in Christmas Cards, but now with the advent of the internet, they can easily be passed along. Let me share some of them with you:

• Take the time to listen to your grandparents ramble about their youthful years.
  
• Grass stains are good.
  
• I know a vegetarian who says he doesn't love animals -- he just hates plants.
  
• Remember that NO is an answer when you ask for something through prayer.
  
• Approach love and cooking equally . . . do both with reckless abandon.
  
• Live a good, honorable life. Then when you're older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.
  
• Embrace change but don't ditch your values.
  
• I'm on a seafood diet -- I see food, I eat.
  
• He who dies with the most toys - still dies.
  
• Don't spend all your have, believe all you hear or sleep all you want.
  
• Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
  
• Talk slowly but think quickly.
  
• Speak softly but wear a loud shirt.
  
• Goals can be deceptive - the unaimed arrow rarely misses.
  
• Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
  
• If I worked as much as others, I would do as little as they.
  
• Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
  
• When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.
  
• Boycott shampoo! Demand the REAL poo!
  
• Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?
  
• What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
  
• I used to have an open mind, but my brains kept falling out.
  
• I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
  
• Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
  
• If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
  
• A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
  
• Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
  
• For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
  
• No one is listening until you make a mistake.
  
• Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

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