| Life as we know it
is already odd and unsettling. So for
true surrealism, we are right back with
documentary photography. - Judy
Jones and William Wilson from An Incomplete
Education. |
| It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make
sense. - Mark Twain |
| We have met the enemy
and he is us. - Walt Kelly's Pogo |
| All of the significant battles are waged within the self. - Wu-men |
| Time, space, and causality
are only metaphors of knowledge, with
which we explain things to ourselves. - Friedrich Nietzsche |
| All pigs are equal,
but some pigs are more equal than others. - George Orwell |
| Vanity of vanities.
All is vanity. The thing that hath been,
it is that which shall be; and that which
is done is that which shall be done: and
there is no new thing under the sun. - Ecclesiastes |
| To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose. - Ecclesiastes |
| The Supreme Court has
made its decision, now let them enforce
it. - President Andrew Jackson,
responding to the Supreme Court decision Worcester v. Georgia (1832). |
| No matter whether the constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns. -
Finley Peter Dunne as Mr. Dooley |
| A man has more fun wishing for the things he hasn't got than enjoying the things he has got. - Finley
Peter Dunne as Mr. Dooley |
| Trust everybody, but cut the cards. - Finley Peter Dunne as Mr. Dooley |
| If a man wants to strangle
his wife and throw her in the kitchen
sink, let him do it any way he wants to.
If he's doing it awkwardly, or not the
way I'd do it, all right -- it's a good
job so long as he gets her into the sink,
completely strangled. - Lejaren
A. Hiller, Sr. |
| Today is the tomorrow
you worried about yesterday. Attributed
to Dale Carnegie. |
| A cynic is a man who
knows the price of everything but the
value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde |
| People are
just like farm equipment. They
rust out quicker
than they wear
out. – Colonel
Harlan Saunders |
| Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. -- Mark Twain |
| As we grow older, we move from the illusion of certainty to the certainty of illusion.
- Paraphrased from a quote attributed to Sam Keen |
| His use of an accordion
section in his arrangements, steadfast
rhythmic beat, and sentimentalized tempi
imparted to his renditions a rudimentary
sound quality that made him a favorite
with undiscriminating audiences. - Nicolas Slomimsky writing about Lawrence
Welk. |
| Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin
pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate.
- Garrison Keillor |
| Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas. - Bruce Oldfield |
| The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before
last. - George Bernard Shaw |
|
What is it with you and moving vehicles? - Izabella Scorupco as Natalya Simonova to Pierce Brosnan as James Bond (007) in the motion picture GoldenEye
|
| Did you find anything missing? - Victor
Borge |
| Dropped my watch. -
Victor Borge |
| It ain't over till
it's over. - Yogi Berra |
| It's like deja vu all
over again. - Yogi Berra |
| When you come to a
fork in the road, take it. - Yogi
Berra |
| I knew I was going
to take the wrong train, so I left early.
- Yogi Berra |
| Nobody goes there any
more, it's too crowded - Yogi Berra |
| Baseball is ninety
percent mental. The other half is physical.
- Yogi Berra |
| Man was not made to
travel faster than a baseball - Yogi
Berra |
| If people don't want
to come to the ballpark, how are you gonna
stop them? - Yogi Berra |
| The future ain't what it used to be. - Yogi Berra |
| You can observe a lot by watching - Yogi
Berra |
| The quieter you become, the more you can hear. - Baba Ram Dass |
| It ain't nothing
until I call it - Attributed to both Charles Moran and Bill
Klem, major
league baseball umpires, referring
to the metaphysical existence of balls and strikes. |
| If you don't think you are out, read the morning newspaper - Bill McGowan,
major league baseball umpire. |
| Maybe I called it wrong, but it's official - Tom Connally, major league baseball umpire. |
| If you loose something you never had, how can you find it? - Paul
Clement |
| When the quotations of Yogi Berra and Paul Clement can be understood implicitly, then a
higher level of consciousness has been reached. - Jeffrey Sward |
| A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though
we do not love it - Dogen Zenji |
| If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you
expect to find it? - Dogen Zenji |
| All truth is very ordinary. - Brian Perkins |
| There is more than one path up the mountain. - Zen aphorism |
| There is always something wrong with everything. - Zen
aphorism |
| Water which is too pure has no fish. - Ts'ai Ken T'an |
If you already knew the flame was fire then the meal was cooked a long time ago. - Hsin Hsin Ming
|
| We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. - Lao Tzu |
| Life is the only thing worth living for. - Wu-men |
| Nothing is exactly as it seems, nor is it otherwise. - Alan Watts |
| Life is a meaningless
experience into which we all try to imbue
as much meaning as possible. - The
Dwarf |
| Life is a stagnant pool where the only diversion is swatting mosquitoes. - The
Dwarf |
| Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. - Shunryu Suzuki |
| The best thing about remembering the past is forgetting what would have made you happy. - The
Dwarf |
| You sag more if you
have more to sag. - The
Dwarf |
| There are no guarantees in life. - The
Dwarf |
|
Guarantees are not part of this world we live in - Jerry Brown, Jr.
|
| If you do not know
where you are going then you are certain
to get there - Jeffrey
Sward |
| A well-formed sense of denial
can overcome any
level of reality. - Jeffrey Sward |
| The best photographs on display at county fairs are inevitably taken by sixth graders. This is because sixth
graders have not yet had their aesthetics corrupted by The Gospel According to Eastman Kodak or other similar
expressions of vapid sentimentality. - Jeffrey
Sward |
| Ethics in business is an oxymoron. - Jeffrey Sward |
| Taxonomic lexicon is another word for thesaurus. - Jeffrey Sward |
| You can not put nobility in the bank. - William D. Lee |
| Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves
it. -- Mark Twain |
| All generalizations are false, including this one. -- Mark Twain |
| Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. -- Mark Twain |
| Don't let schooling interfere with your education. -- Mark Twain |
| In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
-- Mark Twain |
|
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. -- Mark Twain
|
| A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-- Winston Churchill |
| The inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw
a man carrying an asthmatic pig under his arm.
Unfortunately, the man-made object never equaled the
purity of sound achieved by the pig. -- Alfred Hitchcock |
| Golf is a game invented by
the same people who think music
comes out of a bagpipe. - Anonymous. |
| I like pigs: cats look down on human beings, dogs look up to them, but pigs just treat
us as their equals. - Winston Churchill |
| In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since
the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must
always hold a lead. - Aristotle,
paraphrasing Zeno of Elea |
| That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before
it arrives at the goal. (Travel over any finite distance can neither be completed
nor begun, and so all motion must be an illusion.) - Aristotle, paraphrasing Zeno
of Elea |
| If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion
is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless. - Aristotle, paraphrasing Zeno of Elea |
| Less is more - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe referring to the aesthetics of minimalist architectural
design. |
| Less is not more. More
is more. - Dolly Parton |
| It costs a lot of money to look this cheap. - Dolly Parton |
| When I talk to a man, I can always tell what he's thinking by where he is looking.
If he is looking at my eyes, he is looking for intelligence. If he is looking at my mouth,
he is looking for wisdom. But if he is looking anywhere else except my chest he's looking for another man. - Dolly Parton |
| I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm
not blonde. - Dolly Parton |
| Find out who you are, and do it on purpose. - Dolly Parton |
| To those who understand,
no explanation is necessary, to those
who do not understand, no explanation
is possible. - Traditional |
| Man, if you gotta ask,
you'll never know. - Louis Armstrong |
| If you have to ask if the earth moved, then it probably didn't. - The
Dwarf |
| The Dwarf is a wisp of gossamer, the scent of lily of the valley, and the trumpet voice
of the penguin. - Jeffrey Sward |
| Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away. - Ajahn Chah |
| Life is the flash of a firefly in the night, the breath of a
buffalo in the wintertime, and the little shadow which runs across the grass and
loses itself in the sunset. -
Crowfoot Blackfoot |
| Zen Sarcasm |
| Short Version Basic Philosophy |
Laws of the
House of God
I. Gomers do not die.
II. Gomers go to ground.
III. At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure
is to take your own pulse.
IV. The patient is the one with the disease.
V. Placement comes first.
VI. Any body cavity can
be reached with a #14 needle and a good
strong arm.
VII. Age + Bun = Lasix dose.
VIII. They can always hurt you more.
IX. The only good admission is a dead
admission.
X. If you don't take a temperature, you
can't find a fever.
XI. Show me a Best Medical Student who only triples my
work and I will kiss his feet.
XII. If the radiology resident and the
Best Medical Student both see a lesion on the chest X-ray,
there can be no lesion there.
XIII. A turf to neurology never bounces.
XIV. The delivery of medical care is to
do as much nothing as possible.
- Samuel Shem |
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?
- Epicurus |
The canker blooms have
full as deep a dye
As the perfumed tincture of the roses.
- William Shakespeare |
The crow doth sing as sweetly
as the lark,
When neither is attended, and
I think
The nightingale, if she should
sing by day,
When every goose is cackling,
would be thought
No better a musician than the
wren.
How many things by season season'd
are
To their right praise and true
perfection!
- William
Shakespeare |
Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart or in the head?
-
William Shakespeare |
What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come kiss me, sweet
and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
- William Shakespeare |
O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue,
sword;
The expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
- William Shakespeare |
Seeing too much sadness hath congeal'd your blood,
And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy:
Therefore they thought it good you hear a play
And frame your mind to mirth and merriment
- William Shakespeare |
For I have sworne thee fair, and thought thee bright
Who
are as black as hell as dark as night
.- William Shakespeare |
She should have died
hereafter;
There would have been a time for such
a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to
day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief
candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the
stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
- William Shakespeare |
The girls today in society,
Go for classical poetry,
So to win their hearts one must quote
with ease
Aeschylus and Euripides.
One must know Homer and, believe me, Bo,
Sophocles, also Sappho-ho!
Unless you know Shelley and Keats and
Pope.
Dainty debbies will call you a dope.
But the poet of them all
Who will start ‘em simply ravin’
Is the poet people call
The bard of Stratford-on-Avon.
Brush up your Shakespeare
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.
- Cole Porter |
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