The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves. ~Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office. ~Shirley MacLaine
@edgarblythe,
And she might have added "malignant narcissist" to that. But when she said that it was way before the current state of politics. Even Shirley MacLaine with her ESP couldn't have foreseen what's happening now.
"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention." - Richard Moss
My rules of life.
Charles Turner:
1. Eat no dogs
2. When cooking give your mate the nicest portion
3. Do for others.
4. Don't expect others to do for you.
5. Take charge of your own health
6. Try to answer antagonists with logic and humor. In a pinch, anger and sarcasm will do
7. Vote even if you have to hold your nose
8. Stand against perpetual wars
9. Take time for yourself where you can relax and ignore the world
10. Love friends and family in adversity as well as good times
If it weren't for my bad habits, I'd be an idle fellow! ~David J. Beard (1947–2016), tweet, 2010 February 22nd
"Mahler also had met Brahms at various times....At one such occasion Brahms complained about ‘modern music’, that he did not see it go anywhere positive, whereupon Mahler pointed towards the brook they just happened to cross on a bridge, saying; ‘There goes the last wave!’. "
Christmas Eve came at last. The day was bright and beautiful, the ground crisp and hard, and the hoary trees shining like diamonds! What a happy day it brought to many, to most! Even in the poorest village a little green fir branch testified that it was Christmas Eve. ~Amy Campbell, "Christmas Eve," 1872
"You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion."
Gustav Mahler
May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! ~Author Unknown
Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which passing in at the ears, and falling upon the diaphragma, excites a titillary motion in those parts, and this being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart. ~Jonathan Swift, "Ars Pun-ica, sive Flos Linguarum; The Art of Punning; or, The Flower of Languages"
I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. ~William Shakespeare
It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted. ~Author Unknown
I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one. ~Will Rogers
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three. ~Elayne Boosler
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author Unknown
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. ~John Lennon
Ideals are absolutes — they are like round holes of perfection into which the square, rough-hewn pegs of reality can never be successfully fitted. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer,
www.lumpenbangenpiano.com
You folks happen to know what the main trouble with this country is?... The main trouble is there are too many people who don't know where they're going and they want to get there too fast. ~The Bishop's Wife, 1947 (writing credits: R. Nathan, R.E. Sherwood, L. Bercovici, B. Wilder, C. Brackett; spoken by the character Sylvester)
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ~Aldous Huxley
