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Don't drop the soap. This old American proverb exhorts people to maintain self-awareness. Many famous proverbs in the USA today originated with the famous philosophizer Jack Handey. Examples: Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear your partner has been turned into Dracula. If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let'em go, because, man, they're gone. It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes." Most of the time in the Middle Ages it was probably real bad being stuck down in a dungeon. But some days, when there was a bad storm outside, you'd look out your little window and think, "Boy, I'm glad I'm not out in that." If you're robbing a bank and your pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too, because, come on, life is funny. The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll standup and go, “Hey, I'm Vine Man.” There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he wants to build things, like dams, and maybe chew down some trees. In the third stage, he feels trapped, and then "skinned." I'm not sure what the fourth stage is. If you go flying back through time and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact.
Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank"and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind.
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