This'n'That; May Twenty-Fourth #2; Still MORE Pearls!

The Next 'Edition'
More pearls of Midwest Wisdom from the book of the same name by Patrick Caton:

• It is not the employer who pays wages--he only handles the money.  It is the product that pays wages. -Henry Ford
• Towering genius disdains a beaten path.  It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. -Abraham Lincoln
• Just remember, we're all in this alone. -Lily Tomlin
• I tell you, the past is a bucket of ashes. -Carl Sandberg
• "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." -Mark Twain
• The question, "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking, "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?"  Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. -Henry Ford
• It's such an act of optimism to get through the day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death.  What spirit human beings have! -Gilda Radner
• You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. -Lee Iococca
• Adventure is worthwhile in itself. -Amelia Earhart
• There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor of thinking. -Thomas Alva Edison
• It is the nature of a man as he grows older.... to protest against change, particularly change for the better. -John Steinbeck
• Some people are more turned on by money than they are by love.  In one respect they are alike.  They're both wonderful as long as they last. -Abigail Van Buren
• America is much more than a geographical fact.  It is a political and moral fact--the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government and human equality. -Adlai Stevenson
• The truth is more important than the facts. -Frank Lloyd Wright
• Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. -Lily Tomlin
• Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.  Delicious Ambiguity. -Gilda Radner
• Talent alone won't make you a success.  Neither will being in the right place a tthe right time, unless you are ready.  The most important question is: "Are you ready?" -Johnny Carson
• If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. -Harry Truman
• Success doesn't come to you.... you go to it. -Marva Collins
• I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. -Paul Harvey
• If you want a place in the sun, you have to put up with a few blisters. -Abigail Van Buren
• A  hungry man is not a free man. -Adlai Stevenson
• The trend is your friend. -Doug Grossman
• Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each hanging situation of experience its own full and unique meaning. -John Dewey
• Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. -Mark Twain
• Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.  Comes into us at midnight very clean.  It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.  It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. -John Wayne
• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.  Anyone who keeps learning stays young.  The greatest thing in life is to keep you mind young. -Henry Ford
• A doctor cay bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client ot plant vines. -Frank Lloyd Wright
• Put all your eggs in one basket--and watch that basket. -Mark Twain
• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. -Abraham Lincoln
• Chicago is over-grown.  It is oafish.  It shows many of the characteristics of the upstart and the bounder.  But under its surface there is a genuine earnestness, a real interest in ideas, a sound curiosity about the prodigal and colorful life of the peo;le of the Republic. -H.L. Mencken
• Wisconsin is the soil of a great people.  She manifests the spirit of the conqueror, whose strength has subdued the forest, quickened the soil, harnessed the forces of Nature and multiplied production.  From her abundance she serves food to the world. -Fred L. Holmes
• Wisconsin's politics have traditionally been uproar politics--full of the yammer, the squawk, the accusing finger, the injured howl.  Every voter is an amateur detective, full of zeal to get out and nip a little political iniquity in the bud. -George Sessions Perry
• Basically, Ohio is nothing more nor less than a giant carpet of agriculture studded by great cities. -John Gunther
• One reason for knowing the history of Chicago is that the history of Chicago is the history of the Middle West.  And the history of the Middle West is, to a larger extent than the school textbooks have ever permitted us to discover, the history of the nation. -Floyd Dell
• I like the history of North Dakota, the state without a millionaire and with the fewest paupers; where rich and poor find a common meeting ground in the fight for improvements in the home state.... There is something of the broadness of its prairies in the mental makeup of its people.  A radical is not so radical nor a conservative so conservative in this rather free-and-easy non-eastern state. -Mart Connolly
• It is this determination to remain on the land, this never-ending struggle of human strength and will against natural forces, that characterizes the Nebraska temperment. -Federal Writers' Project, Nebraska: a Guide to the Cornhusker State
• Barns back East have weather vanes on them to show which way the wind is blowing, but out here there's no need.... farmers just look out the windown to see which way the barn is leaning.  Some farmers.... attach a logging chain to a stout pole.  They can tell the wind direction by which way the chain is blowing.  they don't worry about high wind until the chain starts whipping around the the links start snapping off.  Then they know it's likely the wind will come up before morning. -Charles Kuralt
• Sallus populi suprema lex esto.  [The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law.] -Missouri state motto
• Minnesotans are just different, that's all.  On the day of which I speak, with the wind-chill factor hovering at fifty-seven below, hundreds of them could be perceived throught the slits of my ski mask out ice fishing on this frozen lake.  It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmo real cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring. -Charles Kuralt
• There is no obstruction but the sky. -Wright Morris 
• Raise less corn and more Hell. -Roger Butterfield
• All this country is still youthful.  Man has not labored long enough there to thoroughly humanize it, and often you continue to find a savor of the desert or wilderness.... The long broad slope between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River which includes North Dakota is destined to be in most ways an ideal farming section that for extent and fertility will be unrivaled the world-over. -Clifton Johnson
• I come from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any State in the Union.  -Thomas R. Marshall
• Kansas, in sum, is one of our finest states and lives a sane, peaceful and prosperous life. -Pearl S. Buck
• The children of these priorities do not grow up expecting that all the bon-bons of this world are going to be fed then with a runcible spoon by pampering destiny.  Here you sweat by summer and shiver by winter and work and pay for everything you get, so that by the time you an adult you are sprirtually prepared for more hard work.  North Dakota life has been meant to make of you a tough fighter, a hard worker. -Carroll E. Simeox
• The Midwest is exactly what one would expect from a marriage between New England pruitanism and rich soil. -John Gunther
• First in Freedom, First in Wheat. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Offering a slogan for the Midwest:  Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain. -Iowa state motto
• The state seal shows a farmer, a waterfall, a forest, and an Indian riding into the sunset.  It should be changed to ice cubes rampant on a field of white, a grinning, barefoot Swede in a Grain Belt Beer T-Shirt riding a snowmobile and a shivering visitor whose stricken breath is freezing into ice crystals. -Charles Kuralt, on Minnesota
• The fields have turned, yellow and light brown; central Iowa gets most of its autumn from the fields.  Trees and brush trim the roadsides and fence rows vividly, but the great reaching planes of quiet colors are the fields. -Hamlin Garland
• Kansas is the child of Plymouth Rock. -William Allen White

Til Nex'Time....