As Bill grew old, physicians greatly restricted his activities, and it irked him enormously. A nurse had been hired to tend to his needs as he had now been confined to total bed rest.
"Nurse, I would like to do some reading," Bill said.
"Fine," the nurse replied, "What kind of reading would you like? A magazine, a book?"
"Well with the way the doctors have limited my activities," he replied, "Why don't you just bring me a postage stamp."
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."
- Martin Luther
Judi was walking by the jewelry store one day in the midtown mall. She saw a diamond bracelet that she really liked. In the store she went.
"Excuse me," she said to the saleslady behind the counter, "Will a small deposit hold that bracelet until my husband does something unforgivable?"
"Men never do evil so completely cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
- Blaise Pascal
The commandment to honour your parents involves more than just doing what they say when you are little.
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