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When you are visiting a library, trawling the Internet, attending an interview or seeking to borrow a wheelbarrow, you are asking.
And, of course, when you are praying, you are asking. And in all of the above the answer is very often a satisfactory "yes."
I mean, if you were to give me a belt in the mouth and I could perfectly see the reason, as perceived by you, I'd be unlikely to take retaliatory action. If you claimed inability to pay money owed to me and I had what it takes to fully empathize with your penury, I wouldn't get a penny. It is a noble and God-like thing to refrain from criticizing your brother until you have walked a mile in his mocassins. It could, however, leave you with a shoe on your own foot.
If one of your bosses adopts a zero-tolerance approach and you can see his point of view so well that you agree with him, then you're banjaxed. Didn't Patrick Kavanagh say, when warning against preaching too near the gates of Hell: "After a while in Hell, if you begin with Hell's point of view."
It could be argued that broad-mindedness is a lack of conviction in one's own opinions.
There is very often nothing wrong with compromise -- that is, giving up part of a claim. But being so understanding of your opponent that you forfeit all claims is a shortcut back to cave-dwelling. For whatever reason, I'm not particularly good at seeing the other fellow's viewpoint. And when I do see it, I tend to do all in my power to conceal any signs of my understanding to him.
Sometimes I say, "Thank God I'm a narrow-minded bastard."
We have this great respect for finality, yet we are in awe of the greatest (mortal) finality: Death.
Is our admiration for those who finish things misplaced?
Would someone of my simple musical tastes ever have heard of a finished symphony?
People rarely boast about or advertise that which is unfinished, with the exception of unfinished furniture, which is marketed as such to the unsuspecting and egotistical DIY man. But when you think that a Finishing School is a private institution that prepares young women for coffee mornings in Dublin Four, but not for any business or profession, you begin to question the positivity of finishing.
The term "finished musician" appears to be a double entendre to me.
While one definition of finished is "brought to the highest degree of excellence," if you were a turkkey or a lamb it would mean immediate slaughter.
When Robert Southey referred to "... a fit and worthy finish to such a life" he ws merly being hyperbolic about someone snuffing it.
If you were to quote Horace:
To "finish with" a person is not a nice thing to do.
There is something called an American Finish (as in manners.) I don'dt know wht it is. I'm just glad I don't have it.
Would Barcelona Cathedral have been such a tourist attraction if it had been finished on schedule?
While I'm on the subject of construction, there's somewhere in the world where rates are not payable on unfinished building, one ridge-tile left off and you're as Tax Free as the subject of a Tribunal.
In this age of marriage discord, have ever seen a spouse thrown out of an unfinished house?
You know I'm tempted to advise you all that, no matter what you start, don't fini......
DUBLIN, IRELAND - ASK: "You're not here to be asking questions. There are too many people wandering the world asking questions and that's what has us in the state we're in and if I find any boy in this class asking questions I won't be responsible for what happens." The words of Frank McCourt's schoolmaster, Mr. Benson. Isn't it just as well Frank didn't pay attention to him? For while few enough people have answers, we all have questions. And why shouldn't we ask them? For isn't all great knowledge and most material possessions acquired by asking, in some shape or form?
BROAD-MINDEDNESS: The term "broad-mindedness" is used to describe the attitude of everyone from those who advocate wholesale abortion to those who think that wife-swapping should be made compulsory. But it is the ability to see the other person's point-of-view and is therefore considered a virtue. And while I do not fully agree that "....our virtues are only vices in disguise." I have perceived that there is a price to be paid for broad-mindedness, compared to such virtues as chastity, honesty and tolerance.
BOASTING: "Children are great boasters, because they feel tiny and insecure, because the great world towers above them; and anyone who grows up so completely that he grows out of boasting will have a lot of adjustments to make before he is fit for the Kingdomof Heaven." Those words written by John D. Sheridan more than fifty years ago. And I don't know about you, but I could do with taking another look at them. My attitude to those who boast is one of intolerance; intolerance without giving a thought to the fact that my prejudice might be contributing to the collapse of the only world that a person has.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS: "Finality is not the language of politics..." - Benjamin Disraeli.
Ad unguem
about a bus driver, he mightn't be at all pleased.
Factus Homo
(A man finished to the last hair)
This week's Poll: "This year my boss is going to...?" 
WEB SITE PICK OF THE WEEK: A guy named Daniel Erasmus created this site with cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The Web site accompanies an exhibition in Amsterdam from February through June, 2002. It takes you on a visual journey through the relationship between Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, based on selections from their letters: their passion for painting, their quarrels, and their personal ideals and concerns. Check out VAN GOGH/GAUGIN.
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