@msolga,
That, msolga, is the only joke I've remembered, ever, to tell as a joke. I'm simply no good at all at joke telling as such. Heard it first somewhere in the 50's or maybe early 60's.
Chinese culture has a sad but still beautiful way of describing dying. A doctor in Shanghai said this to my wife about her mother: "Right now she is like a candle slowly melting away until the flame is gone."
“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”
― Lao Tzu
@edgarblythe,
Did Lao Tzu work for a living ed?
@spendius,
You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself.
Andrew Carnegie
@spendius,
spendius wrote:
Did Lao Tzu work for a living ed?
Yeah. He made up quotable sayings.
•"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."
- James Joyce
@edgarblythe,
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
Oscar Wilde
“Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.”
― David Crockett
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
Lenny Bruce
Where Lenny Bruce found that quote:
"If Jesus died today, we would all be wearing little
gold electric chairs around our necks."
from "Finnley Wren" by Philip Wylie.
@edgarblythe,
Oscar and Lenny--no contest.
@edgarblythe,
Noted Ed, alas I've never read "Finnley Wren". Thanks for the info.
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan
(Hmm, I wonder.....)
@eurocelticyankee,
Wylie was so disappointed with public reception of this novel, he quit doing experimental fiction for more conventional fare.
@edgarblythe,
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde
I took a good deal o’ pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was wery young, and shift for his-self. It’s the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.
The elder Weller, on the rearing of his son
Dickens, Pickwick Papers
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end . . .
Jerry Seinfeld
@edgarblythe,
You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
William Boetcker
P.S. That applies to women, too.
BBB
@eurocelticyankee,
Quote:A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan
So says one of the top war criminals of the 20th century.
US propaganda is relentless.
