@edgarblythe,
"Did you hear my last joke?" I hope so.
Milton Berle
“Never try to outstubborn a cat.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
“I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist”
― Gena Showalter
“You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn't concerns anyone.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
“Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
― Oscar Wilde
@vonny,
"He was real dumb. He tried to raise eggplants by burying a chicken."
Milton Berle
@blueveinedthrobber,
blueveinedthrobber wrote:
Funniest thing all week...
“The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. [...] The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
- Isaac Asimov
"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."
--Henry David Thoreau
“Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
- E. B. White
“The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
“Magic
Sandra’s seen a leprechaun,
Eddie touched a troll,
Laurie danced with witches once,
Charlie found some goblins gold.
Donald heard a mermaid sing,
Susy spied an elf,
But all the magic I have known
I've had to make myself.”
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein
