Q IS FOR ... SAY THAT AGAIN?

"A wife is like an umbrella - sooner or later one takes a cab."
 - Sigmund Freud

{Freud/Jung on either side of the gentleman on the first row}
Freud was younger again ... about fifty, tapping his cane absently.

His eyebrow rose slowly. 

 "A more difficult letter this time, Roland.  What occurs to you upon hearing the letter Q?"

Mark Twain looked about to speak so I quickly answered, "Quotations."

Freud sighed, 

"Relying upon another's wisdom to appear wise yourself?"

I shook my head.  

"No.  Quotations help me look at the world through another's eyes and perhaps enlarge my own perspective."

Mark chuckled, 

"It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive."

Freud frowned, "You would."

Trying to defuse this brewing storm, I said, "I almost said 'Dorothy Quick', one of your Angel Fish Girls."


Mark smiled warmly, 

"Sweet, gentle, lovely Dorothy.  She was one of my favorites." 

Freud was about to speak, but Mark raised a long forefinger.  "Not a word, Saw-Brains."

I lifted my own eyebrow at Freud, 

"Sometimes, sir, the wisest word is no word at all."

Mark smiled drily.  "You can quote him on that, Saw-Brains."