One fellow noted that the national sport in Spain is bull fighting 
while in England it is Cricket. He decided to go to England. Fighting 
crickets, he decided, is much easier than fighting bulls. 

        Sir Winston Churchill once said, "Courage is the first of human 
equalities because it is the quality which guarantees all others." 

        Presidential secretary James Brady was awarded the TAU AWARD from the 
Medical Rehabilitation Association in Milwaukee. 
        Brady suffered severe wounds in the 1981 attempted assassination of 
President Ronald Reagan. 
        The award given since 1979 recognizes individuals for their remarkable 
courage, innovation, or service to the disabled. Brady has had to undergo 
daily therapy sessions but has recovered enough to go to the office about 
twice a week. 
        He says that a sense of humor can be the best therapy for disabled 
people. 
                                ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, 10/19/86, p. 31. 

        Teddy Roosevelt had a little dog that was always getting in fights and 
always getting licked. 
        Somebody said, "Colonel, he's not much of a fighter." 
        The colonel replied, "Oh, yes, he's a good fighter. He's just a poor 
judge of dogs." 

        One comedien was recovering from a head-on crash. It wasn't his fault, 
he said. The highway sign said, "Do not cross center line if yellow." He had 
to show them he wasn't. 

        A rich woman from New York was touring the West and finally arrived in 
Santa Fe. She noticed an old Indian with a necklace made from curious-looking 
teeth. 
        "What are those?" she asked. 
        "Those are grizzly bear teeth, madam." replied the Indian. 
        "Ah, yes," she nodded. "And I suppose they have the same value for you 
red men that pearls have for us." 
        "Not exactly, madam," replied the noble savage. "Anybody can open an 
oyster." 

        In the aftermath of the Challenger tragedy in which 7 American 
astronauts were killed, much was said about their commitment, courage and 
faith in the future and the nation. 
        Someone recalled that they were, also, explorers--men and women with a 
vision. Explorers have always been people with courage, the desire to take a 
calculated risk, and vision of what might be. 
        Mike Royko wrote:  "So, in feeling grief, remember that the seven were 
special in what they did with their lives, right up to the end." 
        As someone once put it:  "If I reach for the stars, I might not touch 
them. But I won't come up with a handful of dirt." 
                                NY DAILY NEWS, 1/30/86. 

        Four men asked a fifth to join them for a game of cards. He declined, 
saying he had to go home to his wife. 
        "Are you a man," asked one friend, "or a mouse?" 
        "I am a man," said the reluctant one, "Martha's afraid of mice." 

        Had Moses failed to go, had God 
        Granted his prayer, there would 
        have been 
        For him no leadership to win; 
        No pillared fire; no magic rod; 
        No wonders in the land of Zin; 
        No smiting of the sea; no tears 
        Ecstatic shed on Sinai steep; 
        No Nebo, with a God to keep 
        His burial; just forty years 
        Of desert, watching with his 
           sheep. 
                                J.R. Miller, quoted in SPRINGS IN THE VALLEY, 
                                by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, (Minneapolis: World 
                                Wide Publications, 1980), p. 63.