@edgarblythe,
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
Soren Kierkegaard
@tsarstepan,
I was mugged by an unemployed bus driver the other day, but he wouldn't take my money. I didn't have the exact change.
Milton Berle.
@cicerone imposter,
The way I see it, a fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.
@edgarblythe,
Now I know why I could never keep up with the Joneses. They were just indicted for tax evasion.
@cicerone imposter,
I know a man who is a genius. He recently opened an insurance office in the Bermuda Triangle.
@cicerone imposter,
My grandfather was a regular guy. He drank prune juice three times a day.
@cicerone imposter,
"A fool and his money are soon elected." - Will Rogers
"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom" - Confucius
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
@edgarblythe,
My cousin in Miami Beach just went through a real trauma. After he's been going to his shrink for ten years, he was told "No hablo ingles."
@cicerone imposter,
That sounds like the punch line to Phillip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint. This Jew tells the whole book to his shrink. Then the shrink says, in a voice meant to evoke the Third Reich, "Und, so, now we begin."
“Either you run the day or the day runs you..”
― Jim Rohn
@edgarblythe,
Ah.... now I know what my problem is.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." att. to Mark Twain
@edgarblythe,
We are but a micro-atom with a very short life span on this planet. Make the best of it.
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. "
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929
“My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.”
― George Santayana, Soliloquies in England & Later Soliloquies
