“You've got to have something to eat, and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.”
― Billie Holiday
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
- John Lubbock
@vonny,
For sure, John. No better place fer a nap.
@JTT,
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
"Between Woodstock and AIDS, we did it. A lot."- David Crosby
“It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.”
― Bryant McGill
“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.”
― Edmund Burke
@vonny,
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
-- Oscar Wilde
@vonny,
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
Women too.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
- Mark Twain
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner
@vonny,
That's why you never say anything, Vonny. Okay, carry on.
"The need to be right stems from an unhealthy relationship to your own thoughts. Do you believe your thoughts are representative of reality and need to be defended, or do you realize that realities are seen through different eyes? Your answer to this question will determine, to a large extent, your ability to remain in a positive feeling state.”
― Richard Carlson
God made the world round so no one would think they were first in line.
“It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.”
― Molière
@edgarblythe,
Is that something the elderly can do?, pick up on how one another feels...
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
- Groucho Marx
