The 2000 year old man writes a book

I could've published this book sooner but I had to wait until I had the proper balance of wit and wisdom.  A book with all wit and no wisdom---you're laughing about nothing.  A book with all wisdom and not wit...you might as well go to the library and take out a book by Schopenhauer.

Or rub sand in your eyes.

Fifty-fifty is what I waited for...and a good seven-day diet to put in the book.

---from The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 by Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner.

Comments

[Shakespeare's Sister]

I had to wait until I had the proper balance of wit and wisdom

This totally reminds me of a conversation I had recently with a friend, who is both witty and wise. But nevermind that. I really just wanted to expose the depth of my geekdom by sharing the fact that Mr. Shakes and I spent a good part of our 4,000-mile apart courtship both reading the two volumes of Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation, and writing each other long emails about what we had read the night before. Shockingly nerdy.

[Lance]

Shockingly. But not surprisingly, considering.

[mac macgillicuddy]

Shakespeare,
I can think of far worse things to base an e-mail courtship on.

[coturnix]

Watch out, Lance.

[grishaxxx]

O - for Ms. & Mr. Shakes - that is soooooo Romantic!
And re Mr. 2K, I say, "Nectarines!" - "...half a peach, half a plum - it's a hell of a fruit!"

[Shakespeare's Sister]

Shockingly. But not surprisingly, considering.

Considering what, exactly, I dare not ask. ;-)