Those who are lost try hardest to get others to follow.
From Leaving No Stone Unthrown, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
A man stood at the corner of Arden and Fifth this morning with a folding table and a stack of pamphlets, telling everyone who passed which way the country was going. I watched him from the wire for the better part of an hour. He never once looked down the street he was pointing at. For years I took that kind of certainty at face value and assumed the loud ones had been somewhere I hadn't; it was Switch, of all creatures, who said the man had been there every Tuesday since spring and had not moved the table a foot. Those who are lost try hardest to get others to follow. By noon he had three people nodding and he still had not crossed the street.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- The first to go beyond where the road ends goes alone.
- I’m an optimist because I believe the pessimists are right, but not for much longer.
- There are as many reasons to smile as directions to look.
- Snap into it!
- The problem with positive thinking is that somebody else defines positive.
- It is easier to judge a man than to know him.