“I grew up once, I decided never to do it again”
― Benny Bellamacina, The King of Rhyme
“More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”
― Victor Hugo
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
--Oscar Wilde
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
― George Carlin
@edgarblythe,
"The bicycles are all over, it's flat here in this Po valley city. Bicycles slip down the streets, attach somehow at doorways, and cling to people talking with friends."
Osso in an old thread
Pardonnez-moi, monsieur. Je ne l'ai pas fait exprès.
Translation: Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose.
Who: Marie Antoinette
Note: As she approached the guillotine, convicted of treason and about to be beheaded, she accidentally stepped on the foot of her executioner.
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose
“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
― A.A. Milne
“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story
you either die a proud lemon tree owner or you live long enough to see yourself become a lemon stealing whore
I like paying taxes. With it, I buy civilization
“You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at.”
― W. H. Auden
“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― Stephen King, The Stand
