When I hear so much impatient and irritable complaint, so much readiness to replace what we have by guardians for us all, those supermen, evoked somewhere from the clouds, whom none have seen and none are ready to name, I lapse into a dream... I see children playing on the grass, ...they are restive and quarrelsome; they cannot agree to any common plan; their play annoys them; it goes poorly. And one says, let us make Jack the master; Jack knows all about it; Jack will tell us what each is to do and we shall all agree. But Jack is like all the rest; Helen is discontented with her part and Henry with his, and soon they fall again into their old state. No, the children must learn to play by themselves; there is no Jack the master. And in the end slowly and with infinite disappointment they do learn a little; they learn to forbear, to reckon with anther, accept a little where they wanted much, to live and let live, to yield when they must yield; perhaps, we may hope, not to take all they can. But the condition is that they shall be willing at least to listen to one another, to get the habit of pooling their wishes. Somehow or other they must do this, if the play is to go on; maybe it will not, but there is no Jack, in or out of the box, who can come to straighten the game.
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Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
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A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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It isn't the fact that the cats like to hang around while sex is going on that annoys me: it's those little score cards they hold up afterwards.
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Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Forgiveness
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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Too often we lose sight of life's simple pleasures. Remember, when someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and bitch-slap the mother f*cker in the head.
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Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
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Always love your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.
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Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much.
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