@edgarblythe,
He might have said "I've left you a few million bucks and some good contacts. You should be okay."
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
@msolga,
That's a bit precious Olga. Thoreau had the ladle out goodstyle.
“It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.”
― Alan Alda
"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need."
~ Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable sculptures.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way”
― Marcel Proust
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
—André Gide
"Sentimental humanitarians always form a most pernicious body, with an influence for bad hardly surpassed by that of the professional criminal class."
Theodore Roosevelt.
"You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."
Al Capone
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that once ignorance is put aside that wonderment would be taken away which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.
-Spinoza
Tom: You can tell who's running the country by how much clothes people wear, see?
Dick: Do you mean that some people can afford more clothes on, and some people have... less on? Is that what you mean?
Tom: That's right.
Dick: I don't understand.
Tom: See, the ordinary people, you'd say that the ordinary people are the less-ons.
Dick: So who's running the country?
Tom: The morons.
The Smothers Brothers
@edgarblythe,
Beware of any enterprise that requires new clothing.
--Thoreau
@farmerman,
Like dining in a restaurant.
"Restaurants are threatening places for men."
Francois Truffaut.
“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
― Henry Miller
@edgarblythe,
“My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry about the future. Of course, he died penniless and single."
~ Carrie,
Sex and the City.
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.”
― Norman Mailer
@edgarblythe,
The suspension of reason is something that America does with the greatest flourish.
jtt
“What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in.”
― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Thе morе I knоw аbout people, the bеtter I lіkе my dog. -- Mark Twain
“...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.”
― Daphne du Maurier
