A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
~ Groucho Marx
Month: September 2018
George Carlin Quote: Odd Feeling
“You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.”
~ George Carlin
Edwin Way Teale Quote: Autumn
“For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.”
~ Edwin Way Teale
Aeschylus Quote: Happiness
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
-Aeschylus 525 BC – 456 BC
Ancient Greek Dramatist
Jean de la Bruyere Quote: Three Events
There are only three events in a man’s life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscience of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
-Jean de la Bruyere
French Philosopher
George Cooper, October’s Party
October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came–
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing,
Professor Wind the band.
-George Cooper, October’s Party
Miles Davis Quote: Music Is
“A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.”
~ Miles Davis
One Of Those
its one
of those
dank
glum
gloomy
rainy
type
of day
just
make
the
best
of it
True Wisdom
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
-Socrates
Mad Ones ~ Jack Kerouac
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.”
~ Jack Kerouac
Power ~ Gregory Corso
“Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.”
~ Gregory Corso
Jack Kerouac Quote: Life
“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.”
~ Jack Kerouac
Charlie Parker – Master The Music
“Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.”
~ Charlie Parker
Look Around
Christina Rossetti Poem: Changing Seasons
“January cold and desolate;
February dripping wet;
March wind ranges;
April changes;
Birds sing in tune
To flowers of May,
And sunny June
Brings longest day;
In scorched July
The storm-clouds fly,
Lightning-torn;
August bears corn,
September fruit;
In rough October
Earth must disrobe her;
Stars fall and shoot
In keen November;
And night is long
And cold is strong
In bleak December.”
~ Christina Rossetti
Ambrose Bierce Quote
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
-Ambrose Bierce
John Burroughs Quote
“How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
~ John Burroughs
Mother Earth ~ Mitchell Burgess
“If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It’s a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it’s time to reflect on what’s come before.”
~ Mitchell Burgess
A Note About Me
There are some things in life I do not care to talk about, and that is religion. I am not religious, and i haven’t been for quite a long time. I don’t like it, when certain people try to talk about it, and when they do, I walk away.
Also, there are religious bloggers who have started following my blog. Fine. But don’t expect me to follow you. It’s not going to happen.
There is one religion I will read, and that is Buddhism, I keep that to myself, and it makes me a happy person.
Life ~ Isaac Asimov
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
-Isaac Asimov
One Big Road ~ Bob Marley
Autumnal Winds
Wild is the music of autumnal winds
Amongst the faded woods.
~William Wordsworth
Autumn ~ French Proverb
Autumn is the hush before winter.
~French Proverb
Autumn ~ Albert Camus
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~Albert Camus
John Donne ~ Autumn
No spring nor summer’s beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face….
~John Donne, “Elegy IX: The Autumnal”
Walter Lippmann ~ Wisdom Quote
“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”
~ Walter Lippmann
Books Are The Perfect Entertainment ~ Stephen King
Born: September 21, 1947
Genius And Madness
“Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.”
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Matsuo Basho Quote
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
~Matsuo Basho
Carl Sagan Quote
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
~Carl Sagan
Mediocrity ~ Sherlock Holmes
Who I Am
see
me
for
who
I
am
not
whom
you
think
I
am
John W. Fellows ~ Poem
I want to hear the simmer
Of the old coffee pot;
I want to hear it hummin’
When it’d gettin’ good and hot;
I want to see the vapor rise,
Like incense in the room,
And float about a-fillin’
Every corner with perfume.
~John W. Fellows, “The Old Coffee Pot,”
in The People’s Home Journal, July 1903
Real Wisdom ~ Leo Tolstoy
“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.”
~ Leo Tolstoy
One Sentence Fiction
He’s known as the ‘why’ man, for he is always asking the why of everything.
Plutarch Quote: Change
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
– Plutarch
Go To The People ~ Lao Tzu
Cornelia Funke ~ If I Was A Book
If I was book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all kinds of different kids.
-Cornelia Funke, German Author
Six Word Story
A head filled with scatterbrain ideas.
Wallace Stevens Poetry Quote
