Once upon a time, a psychology professor walked around on a stage while teaching stress management principles to an auditorium filled with students. As the class shook their heads in agreement, she continued, “Your stresses and worries in life are…
A man’s favorite donkey falls into a deep precipice. He can’t pull it out no matter how hard he tries. He therefore decides to bury it alive. They try every possible way to pull you down. But you should use…
A popular speaker started off a seminar by holding up a $20 bill. A crowd of 200 had gathered to hear him speak. He asked, ‘Who would like this $20 bill?’ All the hands still went up. ‘My friends, I…
In the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less, a 10-year-old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him. When the waitress came back,…
Once upon a time, a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed that…
People visit a wise man complaining about the same problems over and over again.
There was once a little boy, and his mother sent him to buy a sheep’s head and pluck; afraid he should forget it, the lad kept saying all the way along. Whereon the man laid hold of him and beat…
Wise. Handsome. Tall. Athletic. Strong, yet with the gentle touch and dexterous hands of a surgeon. To cut the hair on the far side of my head, he didn’t spin the stool, and he didn’t walk around the chair either.
A man and his dog were walking along a road. The man was enjoying the scenery when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead: He remembered dying and that the dog walking beside him had been dead for…
There was a farmer who had a horse and a goat. One day, the horse became ill and he called the veterinarian, who said: On the third day, they came to give him the medicine and the vet said: Unfortunately,…
One day a farmer’s donkey fell into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it…
The 92-year-old, petite, well-poised, and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with her hair fashionably coiffed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. “That doesn’t have…