“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain
"A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal." - William Allen White (1868-1944)
“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson
Not exactly on topic, but I love it and need a place to post it.
@edgarblythe,
But, but, but.....that's stealing!
@georgeob1,
Ah, I still have my well worn if rather small Marcus Aurelius book..
“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
You can have your bullets as soon as they pry them from my cold dead back - Abraham Lincoln
@edgarblythe,
Why is it that when you're in a line waiting for the first cashier at the bank, or the clerk at the store, the guy in front of you has to have a social hour with the clerk.
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
@edgarblythe,
Exquisite beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka
"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like." Lao Tzu
“Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
@edgarblythe,
Still the best title for a book EVER!
