Famous Quotes ~ Words of Wisdom

"Enjoy Every Sandwich"  
- Warren Zevon

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously"  
- Hunter S. Thompson

"2016 can go fuck a bag of chainsaws"
-a dear friend

“A crazy country, choking air, polluted hearts, treachery. Treachery and treason.” 
― Naguib Mahfouz

 Those who own the country ought to govern it. John Jay

Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.  James Madison 

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."  Eddie Rickenbacker

I complained about the holes in my sneakers, until i met a man with no feet

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes.

That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and you'll have his shoes.

"A-Wop-Bop-a-Loo-Bop-a-Lop-Bam-Boom"

-Little Richard

"you can tune a guitar

but you cant tuna fish."

haz can.

 “I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
-Winston Churchill

“No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.”
― Michel de Montaigne

"Never make eye contact with anyone while eating a banana."

- Anonymous 

"Fuck em up Bucky!" - me 

"Violence begets violence."

John Lennon

the music was...thud like

-captain beefheart

"Anything over a mouthful is wasted"

FZ

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. Henry David Thoreau

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. Henry David Thoreau

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. Henry David Thoreau

The savage in man is never quite eradicated. Henry David Thoreau

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

- Notorious d.e.b.

" Those motherfuckers will never make it"
(My dad, as we were watching the Rolling Stones on TV in 1965).

Never ever use your balled up fist as a ball peen hammer.

My Civics teacher in high school would often write on the chalkboard, then stand behind a podium as he taught. Many times he would step out from behind the podium with chalk fingerprints all over his crotch. <<<<

A random quote from another message board.

All from John Wooden:

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

"Never mistake activity for achievement."

"Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then."

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

"Be prepared and be honest."

"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."

"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."

"Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character."

"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"

"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

"It isn't what you do, but how you do it."

"Ability is a poor man's wealth."

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."

"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights."
All from John Wooden:

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

"It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it."

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."

"It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen."

"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful."

"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team."

"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming."

"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."

Another I really like, this one from Bill Graham:

"Don't give people what they want, give 'em what they SHOULD want."

Every love is it's own mystery.

"If you don't know where you are going; any road will take you there".

George Harrison

“Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that ~Divine Justice~ weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted on a different scale. Better the occasional faults of a government living in the spirit of charity, than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936

​​​We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

more Winston Churchill:

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”

Good sausage isn't cheap and cheap sausage isn't good

As soon as you realize your fantasies is my reality, we will all get along.

Me

Time is a a stripper, doing it just for you.

~ Robert Hunter

Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life

smoke pot instead 

Give me liberty or give me meth.

~Frank Gallagher

Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.<<<

Unless you're fat drunk and stupid.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight!

-Santa Claus

If you want something for nothing, jerk off.

Bob Weir

Fuck it!

-Most everyone

“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.

[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]”
― Niels Bohr

" A wise man builds a fortress from the stones his enemies throw at him " it was offered second hand from my teacher Mooji.

some great stuff in here.

here's one I like.

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

----Thomas Jefferson

"Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope."

Freewheelin' Franklin

Remember no man is a failure who has friends.

Thanks for the wings!

Love 

Clarence

We're not yet half-way to Nietzsche. 

Lucky I'm sane after all I've been through,
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
Life's been good to me so far.

-Joe Walsh

 

"fly low and avoid the radar"

-dusty street

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

On Joy and Sorrow from The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

Hey Smiley...

I have that Jefferson quote on our refrigerator for my daughter.  I've really tried to install in her the idea that a lot of life is luck but that you have to be prepared to take advantage of that luck when it arrives.

The Prophet by Khalil Gibran , i believe Bromberg's copy has the entire book underlined...........he reads it in his leopard skidded bark-o-lounger! while wrapped in a pink and white polka dot Cannon towel.

did you ever wake up,......With bull frogs on your mind?

Do me a favor. Just kick my ass, okay? Kick this ass for a man, that's all. Kick my ass. Enjoy. Come on. I'm not asking, I'm telling with this. Kick my ass ...

 "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."  Rev Martin Luthur King, Jr.

this quote is often on my mind these days.

Nothing famous or insightful, but helpful in getting an air freshener before getting pulled over in Texas. Carlos is 68 and from Venezuela.

You car smell like ganja, joe.

- Carlos Z. 

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

Ken Kesey

Texes, eh. 

Carlos Z, is wise.

How you,Joe?

Good, jaz!!! 

"I reject your reality and substitute my own".  

Dr. Who

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day"

George Carlin

If all the women were across the sea, what a great swimmer you would be. 

The secret to happiness is freedom

And the secret to freedom is courage

Thucydides

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from bad decisions.

 - Ann Onymous 

What, me worry?

– A. E. Neuman

"You can't cheat an honest man. But never give a sucker an even break, or smarten up a chump." ~ W. C. Fields

May this person be happy

May this person be free from mental anguish

May this person be free from physical suffering

May this person live with joyous ease

Traditional Buddhist teachings

"Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream" ~ John Lennon

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

Not optimistic but these are not optimistic times.  Title of a book by Charles E. Cobb, Jr a journalist, professor, and field secretary for SNCC during movement days.

The rest of the title is How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible.

Yes they were strapped.

Patrick Henry said, "Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! ... give me liberty or give me death!"

I hope ICE isn't monitoring like police in New Orleans told the Associated Press they are doing there.

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."

– Dalai Lama

" You can't cheat an honest man. But never give a sucker an even break, or smarten up a chump." ~ W. C. Fields<<<

Go away kid, you bother me.       W C Fields 

"The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat."

~ Robert Anton Wilson

“We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.”

– Mark Vonnegut

Don't shit where you eat.

“The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.”

— John Perry Barlow

>>>*Don't shit where you eat.

The prelude to that ,

Never trust a fart.

“We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.”

– Tom Stoppard

" Thought can't go where the road of language has not been built."

" There are transcendental dimensions beyond language....It's just hard as hell to talk about."

--- Terence McKenna 

Never fish off the company dock.

Conventional wisdom. 

And the other was rather like my bust by Gaudier,

Or like a real Texas colonel,

He said: 'Why flay dead horses?

'There was once a man called Voltaire.'

~ Ezra Pound, Moeurs Contemporaines

 Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.
Kurt Vonnegut 

 Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
Kurt Vonnegut 

 In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat, looked around, and spoke. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely. "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God. "Certainly," said man. "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He went away.
Kurt Vonnegut 

“I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut  

"If they didn't get it, then I didn't explain it right".

(That's my own quote)

“There’s only two things you can start without a plan: a riot and a family, for everything else you need a plan.” — Groucho Marx

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

---  J.R.R Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Where's My SOMA

- Post on Blue Sky that will be my next No Kings demonstration sign. 

He who writes on bathroom walls

Rolls shit into little balls

He who reads these words of wit

Eats those little balls of shit!

-- unknown freelance poet

"The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do."

-  Harold Coffin

"Which just goes to show ~ You can always tell a Deadhead, but you can't tell him much." ~ Robert Hunter

 Civilizations decay at a leisurely rate.

-- Robert Brault

"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt."

– John Muir