"Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you."
Joey Adams
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
"Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you."
Joey Adams
A lot of (sad) truth to this one. Once I joked to some friends in the recovery community who were complimenting me on my improvement in temperament that I hadn’t really gotten better at anger management and tolerance of others. I had just grown tired. 🤣😄
@snood,
Old age makes me want to settle for quiet and rest. My thoughts don't allow it to last long.
“I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?'”
Jerry Seinfield
“What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?”
― Bill Watterson
“John,” she said, “does it make every one—unhappy when they study and learn lots of things?”
He paused and smiled. “I am afraid it does,” he said.
“And, John, are you glad you studied?”
“Yes,” came the answer, slowly but positively.
She watched the flickering lights upon the sea, and said thoughtfully, “I wish I was unhappy,—and—and,” putting both arms about his neck, “I think I am, a little, John.”
― W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
If you can not answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
~ Elbert Hubbard
@edgarblythe,
I can't help but think of the orange-faced torso here, try as I wish to forget him.
@coluber2001,
Welcome to the 21st century.
@edgarblythe,
Aren't you afraid of your husband chasing women?
My dog chases car's but if he caught one that doesn't mean he would know how to drive it.
A Benny Hill skit.
"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
George Orwell (Eric Blair)
@edgarblythe,
Edgar, on that note-
Chip's have more fat than Woodstock has hippie's.
Anonymous
I just ate a bag and someone decided to share that with me.
"Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties."
Doug Larson
@edgarblythe,
"Do any of the women in your family have diseases, like talking?"
Borat
In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
“Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain't like he knows the cure for cancer and just ain't spitting it out.”
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says
“My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am.” –Anonymous
@edgarblythe,
LOL
If they knew what we were really like, they'd be cats.
"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."
Carl Jung
