Lam Luong, a 37 year-old man, confessed that after
getting angry about a dispute with his wife, he murdered his four young
children by throwing them off the Dauphin Island Bridge.
A lady once came to Billy Sunday and attempted to rationalize her angry
outbursts. She said, “There’s nothing wrong with losing my temper. I blow up,
and then it’s all over.”
Mr. Sunday replied, “So does a shotgun, and look at the damage it leaves
behind!”
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Mr. Zhang, from Chongqing, China, signed a contract that allows his wife to beat
him once a week. The 32-year-old Mr. Zhang is very competitive and “never wants to lose an argument.” He says the only problem is that his wife knows
kung fu.
The story is told of a woman who was bitten by a mad dog. It looked as if
she was going to die of rabies, so the doctor told her she should make her
will. Taking her pen and paper she began to write; in fact she wrote and wrote. Finally the doctor said, “That is surely a long will you’re making.”
She snorted, “Will nothing! I’m making a list of all the people I’m going to
bite!”
While checking his bags at the airport, a man became indignant with the employee who handled luggage. For several minutes he belittled the young man and criticized his every move. Surprisingly, the curbside porter didn’t seem troubled by this man’s verbal abuse. After the angry man entered the airport, a woman approached the luggage handler and asked, “How do you put up with such injustice?”
The young man said, “It’s easy. That guy’s going to New York, but I’m sending his bags to Brazil.”
School officials in Bloomingdale, Michigan lost a 2 1/2-year fight in May, 1995 to keep a painting of Jesus in a high school hall way, where it had hung
for 30 years. The U.S. Supreme Court let a lower court ruling stand that
said the art has, “A proselytizing, affirming effect that some
nonbelievers find deeply offensive.”
President Wilson once received a call in the middle of the night from a
civil servant who informed him that one of his appointees had just died.
The caller said, “While I’m sure we are all saddened by this news, I would
like to know if I can take his place.” There was a pause at the other end of
the line before the president replied, “It’s all right with me, if it’s all
right with the undertaker.”
I conceived the bold and arduous project of
arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any
fault at any time; I would conquer all that either natural inclination,
custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew,
what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the
one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a task of
more difficulty than I had imagined.
