Harpo Marx’s Rules Saturday, October 27, 2007

Life has been created for you to enjoy, but you won’t enjoy it unless you pay for it with some good, hard work. This is one price that will never be marked down.

You can work at whatever you want to as long as you do it as well as you can and clean up afterwars and you’re at the table at mealtime and in bed at bedtime.

Respect what the others do. Respect Dad’s harp, Moms paints, Billy’s piano, Alex’s set of tools, Jimmy’s designs, and Minnie’s menagerie.

If anything makes you sore, come out with it. Maybe the rest of us are itching for a fight too.

If anything strikes you funny, out with that too. Let’s all the rest of us have a laugh.

If you have an impulse to do something you’re not sure is right, go ahead and do it. Take a chance. Chances are, if you don’t you’ll regret it - unless you break the rules about mealtime or bedtime, in wich case you’ll sure as hell regret it.

If it’s a question of whether to do what’s fun or what is supposed to be good for you, and nobody is hur by whichever you do, always do what’s fun.

If things get too much for you and you feel the whole world’s against you, go stand on your head. If you can think of anything crazier, do it.

Don’t worry about what otehr people think. The only person in the world important enough to conform to is yourself.

Anybody who mistreats a pet or breaks a pool cue is docked a month’s pay.