wisdom

the younger bull turns to the older bull and says, "look at all those cows. there are hundreds of them down there just begging to be serviced by a bull such as i. let's run down into the valley and begin production on a few of those heffers..."

the old bull smiles and turns to the young bull and advises, "let us walk down young man and not just service a few but the whole herd!"

long ago, the mice had a general council to consider what measures they could take to outwit their common enemy, the cat. some said this, and some said that; but at last a young mouse got up and said he had a proposal to make, which he thought would meet the case. “you will all agree,” said he, “that our chief danger consists in the sly and treacherous manner in which the enemy approaches us. now, if we could receive some signal of her approach, we could easily escape from her. i venture, therefore, to propose that a small bell be procured, and attached by a ribbon round the neck of the cat. by this means we should always know when she was about, and could easily retire while she was in the neighbourhood.”

this proposal met with general applause, until an old mouse got up and said: “that is all very well, but who is to bell the cat?” the mice looked at one another and nobody spoke. then the old mouse said:

“it is easy to propose impossible remedies.”