If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window – Lemony Snicket
If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window – Lemony Snicket
In some stories, it’s easy. The more of “The Three Bears,” for instance, is “Never break into someone else’s house.” The moral of “Snow White” is “Never eat apples.” The moral of World War One is “Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.”
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window – Lemony Snicket
It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window – Lemony Snicket
Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated. Frustrated babies tend to throw food and make a mess. Frustrated citizens tend to execute kings and queens and make a democracy. And frustrated moths tend to bang up against lightbulbs and make light fixtures all dusty.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window – Lemony Snicket
Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it might be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window – Lemony Snicket
Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window – Lemony Snicket
Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window – Lemony Snicket
I have a friend named Gina-Sue who is a socialist, and Gina-Sue has a favorite saying: “You can’t lock up the barn after the horses are gone.”
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window – Lemony Snicket
Just because something is typed–whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book–this does not mean that it is true.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window – Lemony Snicket
“I will thank you not to be impertinent,” Aunt Josephine said, using a word which here means “pointing out that I’m wrong, which annoys me.” “It is very annoying.”
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window – Lemony Snicket