"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Erasmus
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Erasmus
That was disproved quite handily by H.G. Welles in a story called "In the Country of the Blind."
No man really knows about other human beings.
The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
~John Steinbeck
The Winter of Our Discontent
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."
- Yogi Berra
@eurocelticyankee,
Yogi - my favorite philosopher.
@edgarblythe,
That quote of his comes true every day, especially in the building game if you know what I mean.
Plans always look great on paper, eh!
@eurocelticyankee,
I could write a treatise on plans gone wrong in the building trade.
I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.
Homer
@edgarblythe,
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin
@BumbleBeeBoogie,
Thus the origin of, "I could tell you. But, then, I would have to kill you."
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
- George Eliot
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon
The man in the wilderness said to me,
How many strawberries grow in the sea?
I answered him as I thought good,
As many red herrings as grow in the wood.
Mother Goose
@edgarblythe,
Good one. And a brand new Mama Goose for this guy.
@Lustig Andrei,
It's from a Man in the Wilderness bit.
