Quote Of The Day

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
-Aristotle

 

'They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself'. – Andy Warhol

 

this.

 

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." -Leonardo Da Vinci

 

Man is kind enough when he’s not excited by religion, but once the holy holies have got a grip on him he’s capable of almost anything. When a disciple from the wildcat religious asylum comes marching forth, get under the bed. It doesn’t matter whether he’s a Christian. Hindu, Jew, or Muslim. If he’s made up his mind that you need reforming, he will do it with anything handy – an ax, eight hundred years of witch burning or, if necessary, he’ll blow you up ------
Mark Twain

 

Get down off the cross, we need the wood.

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A family is a collection of people who share the same genes but can't agree on a place to pull over for lunch. - Mary Roach

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I'm 1/32 Mohican, that means for about 36 minutes a day I have a thing about feathers. - Honor Seed

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'I have so many friends. There is a possibility your one of them honey.' - Ella Fitzgerald



Marriages are all happy
It's having breakfast together that causes all the trouble.

 

Suspense is worse than disappointment. Robert Burns

 

"I cannot tell if what the world considers 'happiness' is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness." -Chuang-tzu.

 

Here's a collection of thoughts worth pondering

An Old Farmer's Advice:

* Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.
* Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance.
* Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
* A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.
* Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.
* Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.
* Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.
* Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.
* It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
* You cannot unsay a cruel word.
* Every path has a few puddles.
* When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
* The best sermons are lived, not preached.
* Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.
* Don't judge folks by their relatives.
* Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
* Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back,
you'll enjoy it a second time.
* Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't botherin' you none.
* Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
* If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.
* Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.
* The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with,
watches you from the mirror every mornin'.
* Always drink upstream from the herd.
* Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.
* Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.
* If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence,
try orderin' somebody else's dog around.
* Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

 

Wyldwynd has brought the renewal of springtime into my art, and lifted my heart upon the wings of fairies - Honor Seed

 

Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. - Danny Thomas

 

"The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That
is one of the social lies that a free, thinking man is bound
to rebel against. Who makes up the majority in any given
country? Is it the wise men or the fools? I think we must
agree that the fools are in a terrible overwhelming majority,
all the wide world over. But, damn it, it can surely never
be right that the stupid should rule over the clever!

--Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), An Enemy of the People

 

Do every act of your life as if it were your last -- Marcus Aurelius

 

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." -Einstein

 

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking

 

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent-- Victor Hugo

 

" You have to imagine some great teacher from the invisible realms is speaking it to your human mind. " - A.B. Fairchild

 

'A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination, but does not advance our knowledge.'

- J Black, Lectures of the elements of Chemistry 1803

 

Everybody sees themselves walking around with nobody else - Bob Dylan

 

"Only those who move notice their chains"