Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
Samuel Beckett
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
"My brother is gay and my parents don’t care, as long as he marries a doctor."
— Elayne Boosler
@vonny,
vonny wrote:
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
Dylan may have said that, but I have read that he is a shrewd manager of his money.
“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
― Socrates
- “Nomina si nescis, perit et cognitio rerum”
- “If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost too”
(Carl Linnaeus, from Philosophia botanica (1751) p.158 under VII Nomina)
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
- William Arthur Ward
@edgarblythe,
Quote:Dylan may have said that, but I have read that he is a shrewd manager of his money.
Anybody would be who had spent two years on the streets of NYC begging and hustling and passing the hat round.
"I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife" -Hannibal Lecter in an Italian museum. Steve Quinney at The Castaways Myrtle Beach 1981.
@spendius,
I lived like that and I have no monetary shrewdness.
@edgarblythe,
Maybe you are a slow learner ed.
@spendius,
Apparently I have no facility for the art.
"Deep down I'm a very shallow person."
Charles Haughey
“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”
― Steven Wright
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
@vonny,
He must have been reading these threads.
@spendius,
Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
George W. Bush
Really George.
“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola
