This was probably the very first book I bought in England, back in 1995. It could have changed my life then if only I were not so busy working and really followed its advice. Still, it was and remains a great source of wisdom for me. Check it out — if you can get your hands on it.
Dinner conversation
Ecology It’s all a good idea. Whales should be saved and you agree wholeheartedly about that, except as far as you knew they were all pretty strong swimmers anyway. Rhinos should also be saved, but where would you get a rubber ring big enough to go round them?
Health
Ask any biologist or anybody in the medical profession, and if they’re honest they will tell you that the single most effective way to be lithe, muscular, good-looking, fit, healthy and generally obnoxious, with every chance of living to a ripe old age, is to choose the right parents. But you didn’t, did you?
Insurance and mortgages
Don’t bother with either of these unless you really have to.
Procrastination
Procrastination is a loafer’s best friend. Leave something until it can no longer be left, and there is a reasonable chance that
- it will no longer need doing, or
- someone else will have done it before you got round to it.
Sex
Lazy sex is perfectly normal and you shouldn’t feel guilty if you indulge in it. What’s more, women can be just as lazy in bed as men, though many of them are too modest to admit it.
Sport
Don’t be ridiculous.
What to do on holiday
Nothing.
Work
— wait, I have another blog for those quotes.
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