"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."
Robert M. Pirsig
“You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!”
Will Rogers
@edgarblythe,
My Will Rogers quote gets attributed to Robert Heinlein, and I thought it worth correcting that assumption.
You ever get that urge, Frank? It begins with looking down from 50 stories up, thinking about the meaninglessness of life, listening to dark voices deep inside you, and you think, "Should I... Should I... Should I push someone off?"
~ Far side Calendar
“Nearly anyone I’ve found worth knowing was difficult enough, vivid enough, to qualify at some point as my crazy friend.”
Jonathan Lethem
"Washington was no democrat by heredity or taste."
Dixon Wecter.
@spendius,
"The People, your People, Sir, is a great Beast."
Alexander Hamilton.
"In every walk with Nature, one receives far more than one seeks."
John Muir
“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
― Julia Child
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
~ Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
"Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle."
Camille Paglia
@Lustig Andrei,
What comes after the sizzle LA?
@spendius,
Why, the steak with all the fixin's.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H.G. Wells
@Lustig Andrei,
I was thinking from Ms Paglia's point of view. And from that of her unfortunate admirers.
@spendius,
The sizzle is heard as she cooks your nuts in the divorce court. (sniff) ahhh...
He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once
have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes,
but divorce, never.
Jack Benny
“What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?”
― Bill Watterson
