Wisdom is Always Stolen from Somewhere

[forsyth]

When people say "Somebody ought to do something", they forget one word, they mean "Somebody ELSE ought to do something".

We should all try being somebody else once in a while.

(I'm pretty sure the quote, or at least the idea, is from a Terry Pratchett book, and I could almost swear it was Susan's line, but I can't remember the quote or find it on Google, so you get this version)

Comments

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Susan was bright enough to know that the phrase "Someone ought to do something" was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used it never added the rider "and that someone is me." But someone ought to do something, and right now the whole pool of someones consisted of her, and no one else. - Terry Pratchett, Hogather

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

And there it is! I knew it was a Susan thing.