Crazy Wisdom

[garbage can]

Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

~George Burns~​

 

[Sweetpepper]

Don't find love, let love find you. That's why it's called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall.

 

[garbage can]

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults."

~ Brian Aldiss ~​

 

[Sugar Dreams]

eww gc :rollingeyes:

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point.

 

[Ishmael]

"Shit and paint have a lot in common. People tend to spread both around and they both flow downhill" - Ishmael

 

[Sugar Dreams]

"You don't have to say anything and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and ... blow.''

 

[VelvetDarkness]

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults."

~ Brian Aldiss ~​

We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.

 

[VelvetDarkness]

"When the last tree has fallen and the last bird has died, then will men learn that money cannot be eaten." American indian proverb.

 

[garbage can]

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."

~ Oscar Wilde ~​

 

[Sugar Dreams]

What's wrong?

 

[garbage can]

What's wrong?

People agreeing with me......

 

[garbage can]

"Beliefs are dangerous.
Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning.
A non-functioning mind is clinically dead.
Believe in nothing..*​

 

[Ishmael]

"Beliefs are dangerous.
Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning.
A non-functioning mind is clinically dead.
Believe in nothing..*​

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. - James Madison

Ishmael

 

[VelvetDarkness]

"It's the age old paradox. Those who crave power should under no circumstances be given any. Those who are equipped with the moral fibre to wield it responsibly, know better than to want the job." Ben Elton.

 

[VelvetDarkness]

"Keep it simple. The government over the individual, the general population over government, the environment over everything and as for the injuns? Give them whatever they want."

 

[garbage can]

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."

~ Mae West ~​

 

[Sweetpepper]

Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
Tomorrow be today.

 

[garbage can]

Liberals think of changing humanity, when they should think of changing themselves

~ Garby ~​

 

[Ishmael]

"When a self-governing people confer upon their government the power to take from some and give to others, the process will not stop until the last bone of the last taxpayer is picked bare." (Kershner’s First Law) - Howard E. Kershner

Ishmael

 

[Sugar Dreams]

All a man can betray is his conscience.

 

[Sugar Dreams]

Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive nervous systems.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.

 

[Sugar Dreams]

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

 

[liquen]

how false and triftling is that art you boast;
no art can give me back my beauty lost!
in tears, surrounded by my friends i lay,
mask'ed o'er, and trembling at the light of day.

lady mary wortley montagu (1689-1762)

 

[Sugar Dreams]

The first and best victory is to conquer self.

 

[liquen]

rhyme, my old cymbal,
i don't clash you as often,
or trust your old promises
of music and unison.

"brevity", judith wright (1915-2000)