Teach your children how to think, not what to think.
~ Richard Feynman
Yep
There are two kinds of men in the world - those who have a crush on Linda Ronstadt, and those who have never heard of her.
~ Willie Nelson
I'll take your advice, Tom!
Do not neglect your music,
it will be a companion that will sweeten many hours of life to you.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Yummy!
I got me an emotional support pet.
It is a chicken.
It's crispy.
It also came with a biscuit.
~ Jacques Pepin
Decent question
Why do men instinctively pull on the loose threads of their parachutes?
~ Harlan Thromby, in Knives Out
What do you call it, indeed?
And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want.
What do you call it - freedom or loneliness?
~ Charles Bukowski
I love a great story!
Even long after you've finished them, some books outright refuse to leave you alone.
The stubbornness of a great story is truly priceless.
~ Jonathon Edward Durham
Awesomely put!
Think not of the books you've bought as a 'to be read' pile.
Instead, think of your bookcase as a 'wine cellar'.
You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood.
~ Luc van Donkersgoed
My mantra for today
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Seems reasonable
Lady taking a pill: The doctor gave me vitamins...I have a condition where I need to be happier.
~ seen on The Connors TV show
Accuracy IS important!
Scott: "Lincoln died three centuries ago on a planet hundreds of light years away." (gestures)Spock: "More that direction, Engineer." (gestures in the opposite direction)
~ Star Trek TOS, Season 3, The Savage Curtain
A bit spicy...
Bond: Who are you?
Pussy Galore: Pussy Galore
Bond: I know, but what's your name?
~ original dialogue (subsequently changed), in Goldfinger
Perhaps
We’d be in a much better place if the 99% of us who aren’t offended by everything quit catering to the 1% who are.
~ found on the internet
Truth
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
~ Upton Sinclair
Absence to value presence...
Life is so ironic.
It takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence.
And absence to value presence.
~ unknown
Beautiful
And it's a fair windBlowin' warm out of the south over my shoulderGuess I'll set a course and go
~ Wooden Ships, David Crosby (who died this week)
Who's the sucker?
Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.
~ Amarillo Slim, legendary poker player
Never more true than today's work environment
Never be loyal. "Act loyal", but never be loyal, for your own sanity.Capitalists could care less about you even as they ask you personal questions and "fake act" like a "family".
Never be loyal to someone who pays you for work.
~ read on The NY Times comments section, regarding January 2022 layoffs in the tech work force
And astronauts
If kids knew what they wanted to be at age 8, the world would be filled with cowboys and princesses.
~ Bill Maher
Bewildered is my current state of mind - maybe I'm lost!
I have never been lost, but I've been bewildered for three days.
~ Daniel Boone
Perhaps...
No, that is the greatest fallacy: the wisdom of old men.
They do not grow wise.
They grow careful.
~ Ernest Hemingway
My dad's favorite joke
How Do you Catch a Polar Bear?
You go to the Arctic, and cut a hole in the ice.
You take a can of peas and line the hole with the peas.
Then, when the polar bear comes up to take a pea,
you kick him in the ice hole!
(then Dad would laugh uproariously!)
Ouch!
When you're dead, you don't know that you're dead;
All the pain is felt by other people.
Same thing happens when you're stupid.
~ found on the interwebs
I was once asked, "What are your expectations?"
Someone asked me, "Who hurt you so badly?"I replied, "My own expectations.”
~ Shannon L. Alder
Dull and blank, indeed...
Therefore, have done with this nonsense: you have no ground for hope:
Dismiss, at once, these hurtful thoughts and foolish wishes from your mind, and turn to your own duty, and the dull blank life that lies before you.
You might have known such happiness was not for you.
~ Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
The last time
The last time I felt alive – I was looking into your eyes.
Breathing your air…touching your skin…
Saying goodbye…
The last time I felt alive…I was dying.
~ Ranata Suzuki
Drenched, indeed...
There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces and left him drenched, with empty arms.
~ Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
Oof...
I had someone once who made every day mean something.And now…
I am lost…
And nothing means anything anymore.
~ Ranata Suzuki
Where's my candle?
I think perhaps I will always hold a candle for you – even until it burns my hand.
And when the light has long since gone …. I will be there in the darkness holding what remains, quite simply because I cannot let go.
~ Ranata Suzuki
Yikes!
…the sad part is, that I will probably end up loving you without you for much longer than I loved you when I knew you.
Some people might find that strange.
But the truth of it is that the amount of love you feel for someone and the impact they have on you as a person, is in no way relative to the amount of time you have known them.
~ Ranata Suzuki
Every single day...
Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you.”
~ Ranata Suzuki
And fight and fight and fight...
When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?
~ Shannon L. Alder
If you say so...
Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
~ J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister
I can't think of anything...
Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?
~ James Patterson, The Angel Experiment
Ouch!
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
~ Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
Yep
In Washington, D.C., if it were not for double standards, there wouldn't be any standards at all...
~ Senator John Kennedy, discussing the Biden top secret document debacle, January 12, 2023
Yep
Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing, and don't let people bring you down. Study, think, create, and grow. Teach yourself and teach others.
~ Richard Feynman
Yep
Those who work in an office often feel that, despite the proliferation of contrived metrics they must meet, their job lacks objective standards of the sort provided by, for example, a carpenter’s level, and that as a result there is something arbitrary in the dispensing of credit and blame.
~ Matthew B. Crawford, “Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work” (2009)
I would use 'simplest', but 'cheapest' works, too
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The man knew...
Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
~ Winston Churchill
Indeed...
Strong relationships are what make for a happy life.
More than wealth, I.Q. or social class, it’s the robustness of our bonds that most determines whether we feel fulfilled.
~ findings from the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest-running in-depth study on human happiness in the world
Simple truths...
Man (at bar): Are you married?
Bartender: Yep.
Man: Do you and your wife fight and argue all the time?
Bartender: Sometimes she sleeps.
~ from classic film noir, Don't Bother
From long ago...
We may not be able to share a kiss tonight,
but we can share the stars.
So pick out the brightest one you can find this evening
and know that I've claimed it for you
and wished upon it with all my heart.
Yeah, I'm talkin' to YOU!
What late people don't understand about us on-time people is that...we hate you.
And the reason that we hate you is because it's so easy to be ON TIME.
You just have to be early, and early lasts for hours. And on-time just lasts a second, and then you're late forever.
~ Erik Bartell, comedian
Yes, I do!
I love you.
You're probably thinking, "You don't even know me."
But if people can hate for no reason, I can LOVE.
The man knows...
Education is the acquisition of knowledge, while intelligence is the ability to use that knowledge to think and reason.
One can be highly educated but not necessarily intelligent.
And vice versa.
~ Richard Feynman
So maybe there still can be hope!
Everything will be all right in the end.So if it is not all right, then it is not yet the end.
~ a quote from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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