Quotes for the Mentally Screwed (and others)

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~ Kindly Unhitch That Star, Buddy by Ogden Nash ~

" I hardly suppose I know anybody who would rather

        be a success than a failure,

Just as I suppose every piece of crabgrass in the

        garden would rather be an azalea,

And in celestial circles all the run-of-the-mill angels

        would rather be archangels or at least

        cherubim and seraphim,

And in the legal world all the little process-servers

        hope to grow up into great big bailiffim

        and sheriffim.

Indeed everybody wants to wow,

But not everybody knows how.

Some people believe  they will eventually bear diamonds

        instead of rhinestones,

Only by everlasting keeping their noses to their

       grhinestones,

And other people think they will be able to put in more

        time at the Palm Beach and Ritz

B t not paying too much attention to attendance at the office

        but rather be brilliant by starts and fits

Some people after a full days work sit up all night

        getting a college degree by correspondence

While others seem to think they'll get just as far by 

        devoting their evenings to the study of the

        difference in temperament between brunettance

        and blondance

In short, the world is filled with people trying to 

        achieve succes, 

And half of them think they'll get it by saying No

        and half of them by saying Yes

And if all the ones who said No said Yes, and Vice Versa, 

        such is the fate of humanity that ninety-nine

        percent of them wouldn't be any better off

        than they were before,

Which perhaps is just as well because if everybody

        was a success nobody could be contemptuous

        of anybody else and everybody would start

        in all over again trying to be a bigger

        success than everybody else so they would

        have somebody to be contemptuous of

        and so on forevermore,

Because when people start hitching their wagon

        to a star

That's the way they are "