I needed to submit a paper to a scientific meeting recently, and a treasured colleague sent this to my email....

"You are old, Father William," the young man said,

"All your papers these days look the same;

Those William's would be better unread --

Do these facts never fill you with shame?"

"In my youth," Father William replied to his son,

"I wrote wonderful papers galore;

But the great reputation I found that I'd won,

Made it pointless to think any more."

I really like that! Thank you for sharing it.

There once was a young man of Ghent

Whose tool was so long that it bent.

To save himself trouble

He put it in double,

And instead of coming, he went.