“Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.”
– Terry Pratchett
A little of this. A little of that.
“You could talk about same-sex marriage, but people who have been married (say) ‘It’s the same sex all the time.”
– Robin Williams
“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 is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
– Albert Einstein
“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
“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
– Buddha
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
To kick with sore toe only hurts foot.
– Japanese Proverb
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
– Italian Proverb
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
“On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.”
– Miriam Schiff
“If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?”
– Steven Wright
“Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.”
– Ozzy Osbourne
“When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.”
– John F. Kennedy
Beware of a silent dog and still water.
– German Proverb
If I peddle salt, it rains; if I peddle flour, the wind blows.
– Japanese Proverb
“The simple function of man is to live, not just exist.”
– Jack London
“The world is like a mirror you see? smile and your friends smile back.”
– Japanese Zen Saying
“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
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
“When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.”
– Steven Wright
The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
– Assyrian Proverb
Politicians are like weather vanes.
– French Proverb
Total agreement, 100 percent.
Tell me and I’ll forget.
Show me, and I may
not remember.
Involve me, and I’ll
understand.
-Native American Proverb
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.
“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
“You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”
– Jimi Hendrix
“Time is an illusion.
Lunchtime doubly so.”
Douglas Adams
Be satisfied with the needs instead of the wants.
-Native American Proverb
If you put your nose into water, you will also wet your cheeks.
– Russian Proverb
“I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
– Socrates
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”
– Agatha Christie
“Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?”
– Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. Navajo – American Indian Proverb
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
“The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast”
– Thomas A. Edison
It is easy to undress the naked.
– Russian Proverb
The blue mountains are of themselves blue mountains;
The white clouds are of themselves white clouds.
Zenrin Kushu
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
– Robert Frost
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
– Henry David Thoreau