"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken."
"Self improvement is masturbation, self destruction is the answer."
-Tyler Durden
Masturbation is like procrastination: You think you're accomplishing something fantastic, in the end - you've only just fucked yourself.
- me
The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.
To keep it in your mind and not forget that it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to
-- Bob Dylan, It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
OR
To live outside the law you must be honest
-- Bob Dylan, Absolutely Sweet Marie
"What man's mind can create, man's character can control"
"Acceptance is far more important than understanding"
"Those who put up with it deserve it"
"Teaching a pig to sing wastes your time and annoys the pig"
"Teaching a pig to sing wastes your time and annoys the pig"
"A gentleman is never rude, unintentionally."
- Oscar Wilde
"After a good meal, one can forgive anybody, even ones own relatives."
- Oscar Wilde
That does it. I'm getting a Chandler book next. Thanks, Rumple.
"God gave men a brain and a penis but only enough blood to operate one of them at a time."
- Robin Williams.
"To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony."
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)
"The fallen blossom never returns to the branch."
"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree."
"It only takes one rotten apple to spoil the barrel."
Three from G.K. Chesterton:
"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
"Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car."
"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
"Forward, unflinching, unswerving, indomitable, till the whole task is done."
~Winston Churchill
"All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today and yesterday."
If a man does his best, what else is there?
-George S. Patton
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
-George S. Patton
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
-Robin Williams
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
-Bill Cosby
Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
-Bill Cosby
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ~ Helen Keller
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~ Confucius
"Most people today are pantywaist" ~ Grandma Gatewood
"all paths lead nowhere,so it is important to choose a path that has heat"
Carlos Castaneda
" All other things being equal choose a john with a view"
Colin Fletcher
"Walking is mans best medicine"
Hippocrates
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." Sir Winston Churchill
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein
"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies."
EMILY BRONTË, Wuthering Heights