Thursday, February 22, 2007
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Jack Kerouac
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
The most profound statements are often said in silence. - Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 01-15-04
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money. - David Richerby
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. - Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Saturday, December 16, 2006
sibling back and forths
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. - Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)
[Thats is very appropriate right now. {Christmas time}]
Other faves...
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Any clod can have the facts, but having an opinion is an art.
Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
Man who walk sideways through turnstile will Bangcok.
A good pun is its own reword.
And one of my faves...
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. - Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"and i dont even like peanut butter.
Friday, September 29, 2006
On writing my big fat paper...
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
Monday, January 16, 2006
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Sunday, October 30, 2005
Monday, August 08, 2005
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
[I'll mention the minor embarrassment that leads this to be specially funny for me. I fell asleep, standing up, during Metallica at Woodstock 99. I was exhausted! But they were great, and I got to see them again a few years ago, so its okay. But really, who falls asleep during one of the greatests??]
Friday, July 01, 2005
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Sunday, May 15, 2005
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Monday, May 02, 2005
Friday, April 29, 2005
Friday, April 22, 2005
Monday, April 18, 2005
Saturday, April 16, 2005
Do not consider painful what is good for you. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC) [I will remember this when sweating at the gym. Blah.]
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Memory
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. - James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958)
Saturday, April 09, 2005
Friday, April 08, 2005
Thursday, April 07, 2005
Complain to one who can help you. - Yugoslav Proverb
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. - Unknown. Reminds me of what I say when something stupid happens to me, like I stub my toe: If that's the worst thing that happens to me today, it's still a good day. Of course, this is smashed to bits when something really crappy happens, but that's still okay.
Sunday, April 03, 2005
Similar quotes
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Quotes about Drinking
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. - Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. - Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. - Martin Mull (1943 - )
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. - W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Saturday, March 26, 2005
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. - Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato {Guess why I like this one...!)