@George,
The old boy's on a tear, today.
@edgarblythe,
I will admit that the Haggard quote I gave is a bit on the heavy side.
Wee haue also Houses of Deceits of the Senses, where we represent all
manner of Feats of Juggling, False Apparitions, Impostures, and Illusions
. . . These are (my sonne) the Riches of Salomon's House.
~Francis Bacon
The New Atlantis
“I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.”
― James Joyce, Selected Letters
@edgarblythe,
A sure sign of needing some time apart.
@edgarblythe,
A sure sign of a discriminating sensibility.
A couple of gardening quotes, just having spent about 5 hours at it. Now I'm filthy but content. :
In the spring,
at the end of the day,
you should smell like dirt.
~ Margaret Atwood
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
~ Alfred Austin (1908-1961)
"For want of a better word, Greed, is good."
Gordon Gecko, in "Wall Street"
A parade is the worst form of transportation known to man.
Walt Kelly
@edgarblythe,
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." — Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author (1899-1986).
"Because 10 billion
year's time
Is so fragile
So ephemeral
It arouses such
bittersweet
Almost heartbreaking
Fondness"
Uncredited quote from Japanese TV series
Ima, soko ni iru boku AKA Now and Then, Here and There (1999 TV series)
Yet one caution let me give by the way to my present or future reader,
who is actually melancholy, that he read not the symptoms or prognostics
in the following tract, lest by applying that which he reads to himself,
aggravating, appropriating things generally spoken to his own person
(as melancholy men for the most part do), he trouble or hurt himself, and
get in conclusion more harm than good.
~Robert Burton
The Anatomy of Melancholy
“I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.”
― Charles M. Schulz
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
~ Henry Ford
The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
~William Shakespeare
King Lear
@George,
He who is out for purely economic advantages--as the Carthaginians were in Roman times, and, in a far greater degree still, the Americans in ours--is correspondingly incapable of purely political
thinking.
Oswald Spengler. The Decline of the West.
Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks.
O. HENRY, "Squaring the Circle
@edgarblythe,
A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers
@izzythepush,
Wasn't Will Rogers the bloke who after finding fame and fortune in Hollywood returned to his hometown to "find himself a wife".
