MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2010291385
003 DLC
005 20100914134829.0
008 100323s2009 oru 001 0 eng d
010 $a 2010291385
020 $a9781606087909
020 $a1606087908
024 8 $a99936081575
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn472451442
040 $aYDX$cYDX$dEXN$dYDXCP$dEMT$dYUS$dDLC
042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aBJ1581.2$b.H36 2009
100 1 $aHayes, John H.$q(John Haralson),$d1934-
245 10 $aIf you don't like the possum, enjoy the sweet potatoes :$bsome principles for travel along the road of life /$cJohn H. Hayes.
260 $aEugene, Or. :$bCascade Books,$c2009.
300 $axii, 163 p. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aIf you don't like the possum, enjoy the sweet potatoes -- Give people enough rope and they will hang you -- Never attack a skunk from the rear -- One-armed persons make poor cotton pickers -- Feed your enemy; it's always harder to fight with a full stomach -- Life is less like a consommé and more like a stew -- Certitude is the breeding ground of intolerance and violence -- Try to live so your children won't want to piss on your tombstone -- Nobody is ever greatly bothered by their own personally produced methane -- If you own a male dog, eat the fruit from high off the tree -- Don't burn your bridges before you cross them -- Commuting is never back and forth but always forth and back -- That nightmare may be Uncle Og and Aunt Ig fleeing from a saber-toothed tiger -- Meat gets done, people get finished -- Every person is an island -- Visions of the hereafter should not distort the view of the here-and-now -- Sometimes the most nourishing diet for the soul is to eat crow -- Real empathy occurs when other people's tears flow down our cheeks -- The older we get, the weirder our toenails grow -- First curse the dark, then light a candle -- Learn to buy high and sell low -- Bless the day you realized that children, after all, had finally become adults -- Neither it a thou or thou an it -- Better emeritus than posthumous -- Chase rabbits, you might scare up an elephant -- Vengeance is far too sweet to be enjoyed by the almighty alone -- We should all be fanatics for the cause of moderation -- Speak softly but always be accompanied by a lawyer with a big stick -- Try to bequeath your children more than a copy of your bankruptcy statement -- Some of the time some of us have two faces, but all of the time all of us have four personas -- A book of verses, a jusg of wine, a loaf of bread, and who needs a thou -- The heart that has been broken can be mended; the heart that has been crushed can never be repaired -- Develop a capacity to glorify the routine -- When someone sets out to rehabilitate you, run like a scalded dog -- Avoid having to pay alimony on your alimony payments -- The highest tuition is always charged on lessons already learned -- Beware of adjectival denigration or there never was a "good" Samaritan -- In spite of added frills, a bathroom is still a toilet -- If you couldn't kill it, you shouldn't eat it -- The meaning is always in the prepositions -- A mangy dog will let anybody scratch it -- Cheap compliments are seldom worth their price -- Learn to love those you don't even like -- Don't create a situation where there are more piglets than teats -- In our lying operations, fence construction is always the costliest expense -- The cleanest uniforms are on those who play the least -- The best news analysis is always on the late night comedy shows -- Maybe things won't turn out well : the worrier should at least receive some reward -- Always trust your spouse, but hire a good private investigator -- If you are young, worry about the Laius not the Oedipus Complex -- Appreciate the fact that the whole of creation was made just for you -- History never repeats itself : we have to try to live it right the only time around.
650 0 $aConduct of life.
650 0 $aLife.