"Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the
remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about
when to die."
~ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
@George,
There's no arguing with that George
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
Marlene Dietrich
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.”
― John Ruskin
“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” -Nora Ephron
“What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He's a loser—that’s why he's number two.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
'The truth is, more or less, we always succumb to attention and perseverance'.”
The Wife of Bath. Chaucer.
“When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”
― Bashō Matsuo
@edgarblythe,
“The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.”
Lynn Lavner
“You can't measure manhood with a tape line around his biceps.”
― Billy Sunday
"Praised be God for all sides of life, for friends, lovers, art, literature,
knowledge, humour, politics, and for the little red cloud away there in
the west."
~G. K. Chesterton
The Everlasting Man
@George,
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
James Joyce
"The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them."
Tom Heehler
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
“Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
@edgarblythe,
That was a well-known sea chanty long before RLS used it in
Treasure Island.
@Lustig Andrei,
It was nevertheless in the book.
“Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
