How about some anti-Wisdom Nuggets? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff." -- Mariah Carey "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life," --Brooke Shields, during an interview to become Spokesperson for federal antismoking campaign. "Half of baseball is ninety percent mental." -- Yogi Barra "The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein," -- Joe Theisman "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." -- Bill Clinton, President "Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." -- Keppel Enderbery "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body," -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
Wisdom "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime." ~Proverb Anti-Wisdom "When the going gets tough, lower your standards"-I dunno
The world is too full of holy men who expect to eat the food of those who toil. --Rudyard Kipling, "Kim" A moderate Mideasterner is one who only holds a grudge for six generations. --"That Was the Week that Was" You get to capitalize on a fellow human being's misfortune. That's the basis of real estate. --"The Money Pit" Every myth is created by people who need it, about someone who can't answer back. --"Mr. Loveless" "I'd like to follow my dream, but..." -- Yeah, everybody I know has a big "but" --PeeWee Herman, "PeeWee's Big Adventure" I'm not very pleased with my sisters who are older than me who raised some of these males who I have to go out with. --Guest Interviewed on the Oprah Winfrey Show A good marriage depends on you being the right person, not finding him or her. --"Super Marital Sex
Hi: Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! An apple a day keeps the doc away (of course if you can afford it) Early bird catches the worm. Out of sight, out of mind. ( I donot believe in this one). quack - quack, thanks
Bon giorno: This world is not like "hotel california" (by BG`s) where you cannot check out. It is like an ordinary hotel where some one checks in and the other checks out! adopted from an Armenian proverb. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"I do not even know of life, how can I speak of death?" -Confucius' reply to a student who asked him about life after death. By the way, a duck's quack does echo: http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_world/duck/duck.htm
Here is mine: Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. --Shak. (Theol.) A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have. --Book of Common Prayer. Invincible ignorance (Theol.), ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not responsible before God
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain What is the difference about a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. - Mark Twain
Do not believe on the strength of traditions even if they have been held in honor for many generations and in many places; do not believe anything because many people speak of it; do not believe on the strength of sagas of old times; do not believe that which you have yourself imagined, thinking a god has inspired you. Believe nothing which depends only on the authority of your masters or of priests. After investigation, believe that which you yourself have tested and found reasonable, and which is for your good and that of others. - Buddha Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. - Bertrand Russell For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. - Charles Bukowski The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide form ourselves the violence we intend towards each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: “I feed on your energy.” - “Dune Messiah” by Frank Herbert Violence, is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Salvor Hardin in “Foundation” by Isaac Asimov From Raithere's Book of Wisdom
"Whether you are happy, mad, sad, glad or indifferent - the facts still remain the same. In that light, why not be positive?" -Anonymous "There is no need to remember... IF you are telling the truth" -Unknown BTW - I thought "Hotel California" was sung by The Eagles
"I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: ‘My son did this to me.’ I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: ‘I forgive my son.’ Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand." Mother Teresa