“Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.”
– Terry Pratchett
Monthly Archives: April 2015
Robin Williams Quote
“You could talk about same-sex marriage, but people who have been married (say) ‘It’s the same sex all the time.”
– Robin Williams
John Lennon Quote
“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that … I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.”
– John Lennon
Reality
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
– Albert Einstein
Albert Camus Quote
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
– Albert Camus
Buddha Quote
“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
– Buddha
Mosquitoes
Children
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
– John Updike
Japanese Proverb
To kick with sore toe only hurts foot.
– Japanese Proverb
Italian Proverb
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
– Italian Proverb
Aldous Huxley Quote
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough.
– Aldous Huxley
Alan Watts Quote
Zen Proverb
“On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.”
– Miriam Schiff
Steven Wright Quote
“If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?”
– Steven Wright
Ozzy Osbourne Quote
“Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.”
– Ozzy Osbourne
Zen Proverb
“When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.”
– John F. Kennedy
German Proverb
Beware of a silent dog and still water.
– German Proverb
Japanese Proverb
If I peddle salt, it rains; if I peddle flour, the wind blows.
– Japanese Proverb
Jack London Quote
“The simple function of man is to live, not just exist.”
– Jack London
Japanese Zen Saying
“The world is like a mirror you see? smile and your friends smile back.”
– Japanese Zen Saying
Mitch Hedberg Quote
“You know that Pepperidge Farm bread, that stuff is fancy. That stuff is wrapped twice. You open it, and then still ain’t open. That’s why I don’t buy it, I don’t need another step between me and toast.”
– Mitch Hedberg
John Lennon Quote
I miss his witty remarks, views on life, and most of all, the music he wrote and sung.
Mark Twain Quote
What is Life
What is life? It is the
flash of a firefly in the
night. It is the breath
of a buffalo in the
wintertime. It is the
little shadow which
runs across the grass
and loses itself in
the sunset.
Native American Proverb
Steven Wright Quote
“When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.”
– Steven Wright
Assyrian Proverb
The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
– Assyrian Proverb
French Proverb
Politicians are like weather vanes.
– French Proverb
Total agreement, 100 percent.
Native American Proverb
Tell me and I’ll forget.
Show me, and I may
not remember.
Involve me, and I’ll
understand.
-Native American Proverb
Idiots
Charles Bukowski
Back Seat Drivers
Back seat drivers can at times, can be a royal pain in the ass.
What is a person who is actually doing the driving, to do to keep his/hers sanity.
Well, you can ignore him/her.
Tell him/her to shut the hell up.
Cover his/her mouth with duct tape.
Gag him/her.
Pull over, and kick him/hers asses out and be done with it.
Muhammad Ali Quote
“Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.”
– Muhammad Ali
Jimi Hendrix Quote
“You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Morticia Addams Quote
Douglas Adams Quote
“Time is an illusion.
Lunchtime doubly so.”
Douglas Adams
Quote
Jennifer Esposito was born on April 11, 1973.
She played the character Detective First Grade, Jackie Curatola on the TV show: Blue Bloods.
Native American Proverb
Be satisfied with the needs instead of the wants.
-Native American Proverb
Russian Proverb
If you put your nose into water, you will also wet your cheeks.
– Russian Proverb
Paul Theroux Quote
Born: April 10, 1941
Socrates Quote
“I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
– Socrates
Edgar Allan Poe Quote
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
Agatha Christie Quote
“One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”
– Agatha Christie
Privilege
Quote
“Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?”
– Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Navajo Proverb
You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. Navajo – American Indian Proverb
It Is April, Right?
The calendar says
it is April 8
Well, it’s
36 degrees
and it’s
snowing.
Come Friday
the expected
high is
supposed to
be 65.
Just more
wacky/weird
New England
weather to
deal with.
Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman – your alternative covers
Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman – your alternative covers
Humor Quote By Groucho Marx
Springtime In New England
We all could use a little humor, especially with all the snow that was dumped on us.
Thomas Edison Quote
“The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast”
– Thomas A. Edison
Proverb
It is easy to undress the naked.
– Russian Proverb
Zen Proverb
The blue mountains are of themselves blue mountains;
The white clouds are of themselves white clouds.
Zenrin Kushu
Robert Frost Quote
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
– Robert Frost
Simplify
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
– Henry David Thoreau
