Elder days
When I was very young, men of 72 seemed unimaginably old. Now I am 72 it seems the same.
Uneasy lies the head
Problem with being the leader (whether monarch, dictator, president, prime minister) of a country is that there are x number of people (where x = population of country – 1) who also want to be leader.
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Psychiatrist
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody\’s around – nobody big, I mean – except me. And I\’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if
Out of the briar patch
Fighting cancer cells is like fighting a garden full of rabbits – both multiply rapidly and do great damage to any living organs/organisms they come into contact with.
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Pan anthropoid
Just as well some chimp didn’t invent a chimpanzee god, Pan perhaps, and then incite his followers to attack and kill all the followers of all the different human gods. Still, if he had, maybe chimps would be given human rights having proved themselves all too human. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/09/chimpanzees-do-not-have-same-legal-rights-as-humans-us-appeals-court-rules