Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in
the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Calvin and Hobbes.
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple
"Some memories are so strange to you, so unlikely, so
outside the realm of the plausible, that you find it
difficult to reconcile them with the fact that you are the
person who experienced the events you are remembering."
~Paul Auster
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
Elbert Hubbard
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
― Thomas Jefferson
There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
Elvis Presley
"Once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind
of meaning in life, and you can’t go back to being
normal; you can’t go back to meaningless scenes
stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted
time."
Donald Miller
People see me all the time and they can't remember how to act
Their minds are filled with big ideas images and distorted facts
Even you yesterday you had to ask me where it was at
I couldn't belive after all these years you didn't know me any better than that
Bob Dylan
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to extinction. Let us pray we choose correctly.
~ Woody Allen
@msolga,
Have you ever heard of a woman named Thelma? Unless you're a somewhat obsessive fan of the Beatles, probably not. She was John Lennon's first girlfriend.
Thelma Pickles
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
Leonard Cohen
A mob is coming here in six months to hang the other ninety-five of you damned scoundrels, and I'm undecided whether to stick here with you or go out and lead them."
— Huey Long, Senate floor speech
The captain was a duck
With a packet on his back,
And when the ship began to move
The captain said, Quack! Quack!
Mother Goose
@edgarblythe,
The Cabin-boy was Pipper,
He was a ******* nipper,
He stuffed his arse
With a broken glass,
And circumcised the Skipper.
From
The Good Ship Venus.
"Laughter is the language of the soul." ~Pablo Neruda
@Editusrex,
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain
I decide what I think and believe in, not any country.
G.R.
“Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
― Jon Stewart
"Food, love, career and mothers: the four major guilt groups."
Cathy Guisewite
