From the author's preface:

I, having just completed my last book, Connecting, after a four-year rest from putting fingers to computer keyboard, decided to have a little fun by collecting a bunch of my favorite wisdom statements, illustrating each one in some appropriate way—reflecting either my serious or humorous side. In this spirit of abandonment and political incorrectness, then, I have entitled this latest literary creation Wit, Wisdom and Wiseacring—letting the chips fall where they may. As I can only include so much in one volume without overburdening the reader, I probably will begin work on a second volume, after awhile, which I will probably name More Wit, Wisdom and Wiseacring—whether or not anyone will be interested in this first volume. After all, one does become more jolly and free-spirited with age, providing that one does not allow oneself to become morose with both world events and an aging physical body.

In this first collection, then, I have drawn from Ancient Greek, Taoist, Sufi, Vedantic, Buddhist and Judeo-Christian Scriptural statements, as well as more contemporary philosophical, alchemical and modern scientific commentaries. The statement or commentary I have placed on the left-hand page and the illustration on the right-hand page. If the statement or commentary is my own, I give no attribution. If possible, except for myself—a likeness of which is shown on the last page, I have tried to include a photograph or other pictorial representation of the author.

Having no talent as a freehand artist, I have taken advantage of both appropriate clipart, or resorted to downloading images from the Internet in creating the illustrations, adding some artistic backgrounds using a good painter program. Especially helpful in providing images has been Wikipedia, the free Internet encyclopedia.

I believe in brevity, so no more need be said, as the following pages will speak for themselves.

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