<br><br> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Formsma</b> <<a href="mailto:formsma@gmail.com">formsma@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 10/6/07, Dean May <<a href="mailto:deanmay@pianorebuilders.com">deanmay@pianorebuilders.com</a>> wrote: <br><br><br>> I guess its all perspective. My take was that old grandmothers were so wise<br>> that you had better know your stuff if you were going to try to tell them<br>> anything or they'd show up your lack of knowledge. <br><br>That was my perspective as well.<br><br>I've had "radical" ideas compared my grandmother's generation.  Now<br>that I'm older, I find that my grandmother wasn't nearly as loony as I<br>once thought. <g>  In fact, I'd say I'm finding myself coming to many <br>of the same conclusions.<br><br><br>--<br>JF<br><br>Ron Paul for President<br><a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com">www.ronpaul2008.com</a><br></blockquote></div> <div><br>I kind of took it that way myself but Annie was, I believe looking at it in todays poltically correct context. In that being able to suitably break it down to a simplistic enough form to be able to explain it to an elderly woman. At which point one has insulted both the elderly and women.  </div> <div>I went to the listing of old Albert's quotes, there are about 400 and chose a few I liked, he returned to the theme of the hot something and the pretty girl a couple of times.<br clear="all">I saved my favorite for the last one. </div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2">When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.</font> </div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2">When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!</font><br> <font face="Verdana" size="2">How do I work? I grope.</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2">Imagination is more important than knowledge</font> </div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2">Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results</font> </div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2">Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.</font> <font face="Verdana" size="2"></font></div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new</font> </font></div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2"><font face="Verdana" size="2">He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. </font> </font></div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2">The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.</font> </div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2">Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2">Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.</font></div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2">Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.</font> Albert Einstein<br><br>Michael Magness<br>Magness Piano Service<br>608-786-4404 <br><a href="http://www.IFixPianos.com">www.IFixPianos.com</a><br>email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </div>