Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 26, 2021

The truth often isn’t nice.

It isn’t a Wonderful Life.

I’d rather embrace large-denomination bills.

Rat has a pretty good point!

The title should be ‘Life is a Backstabbing B*^@#’. ;-)

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

I think it’s part of the criteria for something to be classified as a living organism.

“When life shoves you around, all you can do is stand up and shove back!”—Rolonoa Zolo

I like to embrace change, mainly quarters and halves.

“Nail down the cheese,” says I. “It won’t move!”

Spare change?

Not true. There’s always a choice. It’s the people who might react inconsiderately to some choices.

Larry Winget would approve.

“Life”, loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it!

Marvin

Change is good. But paper money is better.

Change is the only thing that doesn’t change.

Constant change is here to stay

The old "Life is a BIT** and then you die story!

It’s the truth. No need to sugarcoat it.

Well, he’s only got five years anyways.

Goat thinks Rat is neither nice nor concise.

If ‘one’ has nothing in life to wonder at…..very rare.

life is like a bowl of cherry pits…the rich eat the cherries and leave the pits for the rest of us, poor dumb bastards to figure out where they came from…..

There’s curve balls, and forks in the road….one must decide which is good for himself….

Bowie: ♪ “Turn and face the strange – Ch-ch-changes” ♪

The Bible said that ’we’d have trouble all our days’. I guess it nailed it. I wonder what else was ‘nailed’.

My name is change, embrace me!!!

Still true nonetheless…..

I think mostly Life is Good, and then I watch the news. Many of us have no real idea how lucky / blessed we actually are.

Oh it does give you one other choice. But Death isn’t that good of an alternate to me.

Wait – do the millennials know about that 3d panel?

“Embrace change” Just don’t squeeze too hard.

The perfect blend of Stoic and Epicurean philosophies!

That reminds me of on “The Simpsons” in the episode “Lisa the Vegetarian”, where Lisa comes across a billboard that reads “Don’t eat beef”, and she becomes happy about it… only for the billboard to change and say, “Eat deer”.

It would be nice if life accommodated to us. Not gonna happen.

Rat gets points for an accurate book title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiDCZyYrJ5M

A great tome defines it as SSDD.

Life is what you make of it; what you put in and expect to pull out.

Life Sucks , Then you Die

They DO say there is a coin shortage!

Gotta admit, Rat does get right down to the nitty-gritty in his book….