Show High Time I Blossoming Aphorisms By FLORENCE BITTNER 1 This time of year seems to 1 spawn squirming plies of Everywhere I 2 look on my desk I uncover another nest of little DEAR old Ben Franklin can never be laid to rest as long as there remains a living I've nearly gotten over my aversion to In my youth it seemed like found something fun to spoilsport hauled out one of his sayings which ruined my fun by stir- ring up my a truth is often a great that late must trot all day and shall scarce overtake his business at 5 The modern version of this is doesn't do any good to hurry if you don't start soon Neither of these wise words make me change my tardy but I they do lame my I makes poor I men rich and discontent I makes rich men i and melons are hard to Remind me to tell i you next spring how to pick a ripe I learned from i my father who learned from the original source of wis-dom-from other kids stealing melons from the neighbor's patch in the discontented man finds no easy thing which hurts The new version of this one is you're not you're not Not a very good anesthetic but a bit of spice for the bullet we've been invited to LEAVING Franklin to stew in his own I move to another younger I swear these things are multiplying as fast as I clear I hem From the book the newest forms of down jumping to sidestepping responsibility and pushing is the first step toward expert is one who knows more and more about less and can be no freedom without larger the number of people involved in a the greater the pressure for Two foremen in a heavy machinery plant were having a contest between their departments to see which could the The battle went on for months with one foreman winning every The losing foreman tried every trick of the trade but the other always beat after the the loser asked the winner his the other man never assign a man just one I always give him at least three jobs to even though it's only the first one I'm interested don't get the losing foreman said the man always works faster when he knows he has other jobs Give a man one job at a with no time and it takes him twice as long to get it It's just basic human CYRIL Northcote the British observed the same tendency in one of his expands so as to fill the time available for its Bittner's law says about the same and steam engines work better under MAYBE it's the spawning season for aphorisms and the nests will thin out soon Somehow Christmas doesn't seem nearly so populated with wise sayings as Thanksgiving and harvet July is a bad month for especially the historical I've thinned them out a I don't know what you'll do with but that's your but you'd just better hope one of these isn't the one that keeps laying the |