Algernon » All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That´s his.
Jack » Is that clever?
Algernon » It is perfectly phrased! And quite as true as any observation in civilized life should be.
Jack » I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can´t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become absolute nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.
Algernon » We have.
Jack » I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about?
Algernon » The fools? Oh! About the clever people of course.
Jack » What fools!

In India a hermit was meditating on the shore of a river when he was disturbed by a young man. The young man knelt down and said:
"Master, I want to become your disciple."
"Why?" asked the master.
"Because, I want to find God."
The master jumped up, took the young man by the scruff of the neck, dragged him to the river and pushed his head under water. After a minute the master released the young man and pulled him out of the river. The young man spat out some of the water which he got in his mouth and began to cough. After a while he became quiet.
"What did you want most of all while I kept you under water?" asks the master.
"Air," said the young man.
"Very well," the master said. "Go back to wherever you have come from, and come back to me when you want God as much as you wanted air just now."


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