"The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n."
-"Paradise Lost," John Milton
"Goodbye Johnny, I guess you really are an idiot after all."
(blogger 'dauber23' on learning of Johnny Damon's signing with the Yankees)
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" I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance" -Socrates (468-399 B.C.)
"Better a bottle in front of me, then a frontal lobotomy." -Tom Waits
"I'm not who I think I am, nor am I who you think I am....I am, however, what I think you think I am."
Confucius said, "Can an ignoble man serve the government? No. He worries about getting something, and once he got it he worries about losing it. As long as he worries about losing, there's no telling what he might do."
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"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past , worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
Buddha
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"I fear those big words that make us so unhappy"
Steven Dedalus
James Joyces "Ulysses"
"Al Capone had the right idea about how to celebrate Valentine's Day."
--Anonymous
"True! And a long life too! I'll never forget him hanging upside down in the Munsters basement!"
--Stray Cat
Damn!.....I never realized how deep I am.....
"There is somthing to be learned from a rainstom. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet.When you are resolved from the biginning, You will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking."
-from the book Hagakure; The way of the samuri
Nice one, Amigo. But not as good as Gus'.
Stray Cat is, in my opinion, the most quotable person on the planet.
Stray Cat wrote:Nice one, Amigo. But not as good as Gus'.
Yea but it's bigger.
"My grandma has blue hair and is shrinking"
-Amigo
"It is said that what is called the spirit of an age is something to which we cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation." -Hagakure
Its later than you think-Old chinese proverb.
He who hesitates is lost (fortune; from chinese fortune cookie)
