"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing"
"Consistencey is the last refuge of the unimaginative"
-- Oscar Wilde

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by ever experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself,
' I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along'
You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I am a deeply superficial person"
-- Andy Warhol

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash...Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Miguel De Cervantes in Don Quixote de la Mancha

"But it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst..." Lester Burnham ~American Beauty

"Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows."
-Helen Keller

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Love is a promise. Love is a souvenir. Once given, never forgotten. Never let it disappear. ..John Lennon..

"Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian." -Shari R. Barr

"No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well come out on the field, and go for it." -Les Brown

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
O.W.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

does he post on kr?

"when people show you who they are, believe them."

--Maya Angelou

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams (Proverb)

“Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.” - a poet..Thoreau, maybe.

Denis Leary: "Did I miss a fucking meeting with coffee? You can get every other flavor except COFFEE-FLAVORED COFFEE. They got mocachino, frappachino, chocochino, crapachina, rapachino, Al Pacino. What the fuck?"

i like my thread, loving some of these quotes. I like

"sit under the sun, abdicate, and be your own king." F. Pessoa

"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - o.w.

"In the midst of winter, I found there was within me, an invincible summer." - Albert Camus

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If you ever feel useless and depressed, remember: one day you were the fastest spermatozoon of all.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." - To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (Spoken by Atticus)

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
E Y Harburg

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
dorothy parker is usually pretty good. i like how dry she was.

he posts in the heart and soul of every little sociopath

"use your blood to paint, keep painting till you die"

"steal all the clocks and watches in the world: destroy them"

--yoko

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my heart isn't black, it's just dirty from the floors

this is a little long, but...

"What is a fanatic? One who believes passionately and acts desperately upon what he believes. I was always believing in something and so getting into trouble. The more my hands were slapped the more I firmly believed. I BELIEVED- and the rest of the world did not! If it were only a question of enduring punishment one could go on believing till the end; but the way of the world is more insidious than that. Instead of being punished you are undermined, hollowed out, the ground taken from under your feet. It isn't even treachery, what I have in mind. Treachery is understandable and combatable. No, it is something worse, something LESS than treachery. It's a negativism that causes you to overreach yourself. You are perpetually spending your energy in the act of balancing yourself. You are seized with a sort of spiritual vertigo, you totter on the brink, your hair stands on end, you can't believe that beneath your feet lies an immeasurable abyss. It comes about through excess of enthusiasm, through a passionate desire to embrace people, to show them your love. The more you reach out toward the world the more the world retreats. Nobody wants real love, real hatred. Nobody wants you to put your hand in his sacred entrails- that's only for the priest in the hour of sacrifice. While you live, while the blood's still warm, you are to pretend that there is no such thing as blood and no such thing as a skeleton beneath the covering of flesh. KEEP OFF THE GRASS! That's the motto by which people live."

"the only teacher who's worth anything to you is your enemy."

"actions speak louder than words"
-proverb

and


"it is better to be hated for what you are then loved for what you are not"

“Having known men, I prefer the company of dogs”. – Adolf Hitler.


There is nothing in the intellect that wasn’t first in the senses, except the intellect itself”. - Leibniz.

I've recently been coaxed into an in depth look at Wilde. Beyond the rubbish usual quotes. And he's as fascinating as ever. Dry. Witty. Honest. It has reintroduced me to my love of art.

"Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it. Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of a sunset. Sunsets are quite old-fashioned. They belong to the time when Turner was the last note in art. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on. Yesterday evening Mrs. Arundel insisted on my going to the window, and looking at the glorious sky, as she called it. Of course I had to look at it. She is one of those absurdly pretty Philistines to whom one can deny nothing. And what was it? It was simply a very second-rate Turner, a Turner of a bad period, with all the painter's worst faults exaggerated and over- emphasised."

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” - Einstein

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Steven Wright