“It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.”
― Tracy Chevalier
"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
~~ Samuel Butler
" I've been rich and I've been poor... Believe me, rich is better "
Mae West
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“Elevate those guns a little lower.”
― Andrew Jackson
"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
— Samuel Johnson
We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided.
albert einstein
"If it wasn't for pickpockets I wouldn't have any sex life at all."
~~ Rodney Dangerfield
“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”
― Haruki Murakami,
“One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire – then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.”
― Robert Fulghum
@vonny,
"Whether the stone hits the pitcher or the pitcher hits the stone, it's going to be bad for the pitcher."
~~ Sancho Panza to Don Quixote
“...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.”
― G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered
An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
“Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors...
Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat...
What then was music created for?
Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves?
I think I know.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody's voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die?”
― Frederick Buechner,
@vonny,
Take it easy vonny. You might start getting the "oceanic" feeling.
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
George Carlin
“Verbing weirds language.”
― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
@edgarblythe,
Quote:“Verbing weirds language.”
― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
It makes for a cute cartoon, Ed, but actually the opposite is true.
