Month: July 2013
A book is a dream… – Neil Gaiman
I believe that a simple… – Albert Einstein
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
– Albert Einstein
If you only read…
“That all men are equal…” – Aldous Huxley
“That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.”
– Aldous Huxley
Change / Improve
“To change and to improve are two different things.”
– German Proverb
Press Any Key
International Symbol For Marriage
From my email inbox:
Dope
May the fleas of a thousand Camels…
Another one from my email inbox:
Everything
“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
– Isaac Asimov
Judge
Secrets To A Long Happy Marriage
From my email inbox:
Change
Another Cloud Photo
Here is another photo of the clouds from the early evening of July 24. You can also a contrail, from the plane that passed by earlier.
A book…
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
– Chinese Proverb
Autumn
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus
George Harrison and Bob Dylan Playing Tennis
I wish… – Edgar Allan Poe
“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
A Crappy Night Photo
I took this photo last night, after a wimpy thunderstorm went through. I took the photo to see how it came out, and it does look crappy.
“Think before you speak – Fran Lebowitz
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
– Fran Lebowitz
Civilizations – Molly Johnson
“All the world’s great civilizations have followed the same path. From bondage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy back to bondage. If we are to be the exception to history, then we must break the cycle, for those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
– Molly Johnson
Black and White Sketch of a Tired Girl
“I spent three days a week…” – Ray Bradbury
“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.”
– Ray Bradbury
“Music is a moral…” – Plato
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”
– Plato
“The best thing about the future…” – Abraham Lincoln
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“I often think that a slightly exposed…” – Bette Davis
“I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.”
– Bette Davis
Independence – Susan B. Anthony
Passing The Time While Enduring The Heat Wave
No need to remind anyone of the relentless heat wave, that’s gripping the northeast, and other parts of the country.
Basically, I go for my walk early in the morning, before the temps spike back up, and the high humidity that is included. Then its doing crosswords, book reading, posting on my blog (if I’m up to it), and watching anything that is worth watching on the boob tube. Plus my daily dosage of black coffee, and bottled water. All this in the comforts of A/C, as I reside in high rise building, with a brick exterior. Brick does hold in the heat, so if there was no A/C, I’d be roasting my ass off.
Paramour
From my email inbox:
After a Southern man moved from Atlanta to a New Jersey suburb, a
fellow passenger on a train asked how he liked it in the country.
“It was difficult at first,” the man replied, “but it’s a lot better since I
got myself a paramour.”
The passenger was astonished. “A paramour?” he said. “Does your wife
know?”
“Sure”, said the Southerner. “She doesn’t care how I cut the grass.”
__________________
Paramour: an illicit lover
“Stop thinking,…” – Lao Tzu
“Stop thinking, and end your problems.”
– Lao Tzu
“Tension is who…” – Chinese Proverb
“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
– Chinese Proverb
Jodie Foster, Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese
Stupid – John Stuart Mill
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
– John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
America… – Hunter S. Thompson
America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
– Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
Sex at age 90… – George Burns
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
– George Burns
Ethel Kennedy, Jackie & John F. Kennedy
Our society is run by insane people… – John Lennon
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.
– John Lennon
Anthony Perkins
Computer Viruses – Stephen Hawking
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
– Stephen Hawking
Once bitten by a snake,… – Chinese Saying
Once bitten by a snake, he/she is scared all his/her life at the mere sight of a rope.
– Chinese Saying
Do not want others to know… – Chinese Proverbs
Do not want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyways.
– Chinese Proverbs
News in Brief: 200 Thongs Stolen From Soho Victoria’s Secret in Panty Raid | Observer
$14.50 for a “thong’ & $28.00 for a garter belt.”
News in Brief: 200 Thongs Stolen From Soho Victoria’s Secret in Panty Raid | Observer.
I am not afraid of storms… – Louisa May Alcott
Black and White Photo of the Alps by Eugene Feygin
The whole aim of practical politics… – H.L. Mencken
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
– H.L. Mencken
Female diner decides to go topless last night at Verso
As far as I know, she didn’t break any laws. It is legal for women to go topless in New York City.
Female diner decides to go topless last night at Verso.
For the full size, click on the image.
Ninety-nine percent of the people… – Thornton Wilder
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
– Thornton Wilder
The day will happen… – John Ciardi
There are two types of poor people,… – Jean-Paul Sartre
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
More Humid Weather
The humid weather is still here, and will be here for the rest of the week.
A story in the newspaper this morning, more or less said, no more 90s, but it will be in the 80s for the rest of the week.
Humid, sticky weather and I don’t get along, all that well. Get punchy at times, which I don’t like.
Thank goodness for A/C. Staying inside, everything is good.
We don’t really need reviewers,… – Carroll O’Connor
We really don’t need reviewers, just first-night reporters who tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.
– Carroll O’Connor
I was in enough to get along with people. …- Stephen King
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
– Stephen King
Some people talk in their sleep… – Albert Camus
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
– Albert Camus
Most folks are as happy… – Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
– Abraham Lincoln
Redneck Mouse Trap
From my email inbox:
This is the best mousetrap I have ever used, 5 gal bucket with a gal of RV antifreeze dumped in the bottom, plastic bottle with a coat hanger thru it and some peanut butter on the middle of the bottle.
Lean a board up against the side and it works all year without checking it and no smell.
I love rednecks, they are the most ingenious group of people I have ever seen. Â
Redneck Mouse Trap
Redneck Mouse Trap
Health is the greatest gift… – Buddha
It requires wisdom to understand… – Walter Lippmann
People don’t notice… – Anton Chekhov
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
– Anton Chekhov
Nature and books… – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Kingdom of Heaven… – John Burroughs
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
– John Burroughs
How I Love Lucy was born?… – Lucille Ball
How I love Lucy was born? We decided to that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.
– Lucille Ball
Every saint has… – Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
– Oscar Wilde
I consider that a man’s brain… – Arthur Conan Doyle
I consider a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
– Arthur Conan Doyle
Stupidity – Edgar Allan Poe
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
– Edgar Allan Poe
People have to talk about something… – Kurt Vonnegut
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.
– Kurt Vonnegut
If you’re in trouble,… John Steinbeck
If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
– John Steinbeck
Specials – Jerry Seinfeld
I don’t want to hear the specials. If they’re so special, put ’em on the menu.
– Jerry Seinfeld
Vietnam Memorial Wall And Washington Monument
Its Too Hot
Went outside.
Neighbor says hi.
I say hi back.
Neighbor says, “Its hot.”
I reply, “Its too hot.”
He says, “Its beautiful.”
I reply, “I don’t like it too hot.”
Went back inside.
A/C on. Now, I’m in heaven.
Artists to my mind are the real… – William S. Burroughs
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
– William S. Burroughs
There are worse things in life… – Woody Allen
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
– Woody Allen
Habit is habit,… – Mark Twain
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
– Mark Twain
You know those days when you’ve got the mean reds… – Truman Capote / Breakfast at Tiffany’s
You know those days when you’ve got the mean reds…the blues are because you’re getting fat or maybe its been raining too long. You’re sad, that’s all. But the mean reds are horrible. You’re afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don’t know what you are afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don’t know what it is.
– Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
If you can’t sleep,… Dale Carnegie
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
– Dale Carnegie
That glorious moment when after a date,…
From my email inbox:
Storm ~ Black & White
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,… – Abraham Lincoln
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
– Abraham Lincoln
A jury consists of twelve persons… – Robert Frost
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
– Robert Frost
Lady In White – 3D
Blue Foot Boobies
Green Eye
Once a word leaves your mouth,…
Once a word leaves your mouth, you cannot chase it back even with the swiftest horse.
– Chinese Saying
If you want happiness for an hour…
If you want happiness for an hour; take a nap. If you want happiness for a day; go fishing. If you want happiness for a month; get married. If you want happiness for a year; inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime; help someone else.
– Chinese Proverb
Ah, Sweet Love
From my email inbox:
Ah, sweet love!!!!
A middle-aged couple had finally learned how to send and receive texts
on their cell phones.
The wife, being a romantic at heart, decided one day that she’d send
her husband a text while she was
out of the house having coffee with a friend.
She texted:
If you are sleeping, send me your dreams.
If you are laughing, send me your smile.
If you are eating, send me a bite.
If you are drinking, send me a sip.
If you are crying, send me your tears.
I love you.
The husband, being a no-nonsense sort of guy, texted back:
I’m on the toilet. Please advise.
(Brings a tear to the eye, doesn’t it?)
Attitude – Winston Churchill
It’s not about how you look….
Source: worth while smile
A Pondering Mind 
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