The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?
- Congo proverb
"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." --- Bruce Lee
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." --- Socrates
Here are two of my favorite quotes, one is from a television show the other is two poems from my favorite novelist.
T.V.:
"You can cut me off from the civilized world. You can incarcerate me with two moronic cellmates. You can torture me with your thrice-daily swill, but you can not break the spirit of a Winchester. My Vioce shall be heard from this wilderness and I shall be delivered from this fetid and festering sewer." --Charles Emerson Winchester III - M.A.S.H. 4077
Wee Wisdom
When tempest-tossed,
Embrace chaos.
Reality
In the real world
As in dreams,
Nothing is quite
what it seems.
In the dream world
Or the real,
We can't know what
We can't feel.
Both come from "The Book of Counted Sorrows" by Dean Koontz
This is for Double-Deviance:
"I don't want to get any messages saying, "I am holding my position." We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn!"
~General Patton
I like that one from e.e. cummings.
Churchill again
-You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
Masturbation is like procrastination, you think you're accomplishing something - but, in the end...you're just fucking yourself.
I think I thought that one up. I may have heard it somewhere else, though.
The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.
"Utopia. The Greeks had two meaning for it: eu-topos, meaning the good place, and u-topos meaning the place that cannot be."
"Utopia. The Greeks had two meaning for it: eu-topos, meaning the good place, and u-topos meaning the place that cannot be."
"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her." - Oscar Wilde
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. "
Attributed to Harry S Truman, Earl Weaver, John Wooden and others
I just love the Churchill quotes - he had so many.
I'll give you the excerpt from Shakespear's "Henry V" speech as my next best thing......
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead!" Rousing stuff.
"Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English." - Korben Dallas, from The Fifth Element
"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience?" - George Bernard Shaw
"He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise."
-Oscar Wilde
"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera. "
— Michael Ventura
39And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
40The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.
King James Bible, Luke Ch. 6
"Never wrestle with a pig. You both get muddy, but the pig likes it!"
_Unknown
“People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.” ~George Bernard Shaw
amor est spiritus qui nos alet
love is the breath that sustains us
"If the Reavers take the ship, they'll us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing. And if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order..."
Gina Torres, as Zoe Washburn (Firefly)
"Of course, part of the problem with redheads is that there aren't enough of them. They make up just two percent of the population. So they're pretty extraordinary. Redheads are too numerous to be ignored, too rare to be accepted."
(Grant McCracken, author, lecturer, anthropologist)
Don't know where it originated, but his is one of my favorites:
"Life is a collection of memories. Remember the past, live in the present, and welcome the future with open arms!"
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson
"Happiness is doing it rotten your own way."Isaac Asimov (1994)
"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream." Edgar Allan Poe
~ "She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She look'd down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott. " A short while ago, BBC TV ran a series under the title "Coleman Balls". David Coleman was a football commentator whose goofs gave much pleasure to many viewers. Here are five quotes from the "Coleman Balls" programme.
(1) David Coleman during a football match, 0-0 after eighty minutes: "If neither of these sides scores a goal soon, this match is going to end up as a draw."
(2) During a televised snooker game: "He's going for the last red, and for those of you watching in black-and-white, the red is just behind the brown."
(3) During a boxing tournament involving a black-skinned boxer and a white-skinned boxer, Smith: "Both men are wearing red gloves and black shorts, Smith is the one wearing a white stripe down his shorts."
(4) The late John Arnott and Brian Johnston commentating on an England cricket match:
Brian Johnston: "Barrington is at first slip, crouching, legs wide open, hoping for a tickle."
Arnott: "You mean he's hoping for a catch, Brian."
(5) John Mottson, during an England-Germany football friendly in about 1978: the English team had two black players who became involved with the German defence in a goal-line scrap and set-to which the referee and linesmen had to sort out. Mottson: "Good heavens, I hope these Germans aren't racially prejudiced."
"Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
"As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious." - Will Durant
"Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains." - Jacques Rousseau
"Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing." - Helen Keller
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley
The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.
The reason a dog has so many friends is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue
Republican landslides are apparently inevitable whenever Democrats try to turn our health care over to the Department of Motor Vehicles. ~ Ann Coulter