Thursday, January 24, 2008
Radio Damatist Wisdom
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. – Douglas Adams
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Artist Wisdom
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Comedic Actor Wisdom
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people – W. C. Fields
Monday, January 21, 2008
"Totally Unique Thoughts" Wisdom
"A goal or a dream that doesn't challenge the dreamer to become more than they've ever been, to go where they've never gone, or to feel things they've never felt, is actually like wishing for a giant "life snooze button.". Mike Dooley
Friday, January 18, 2008
Entertainer Wisdom
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life - Cher
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Comedic Wisdom
It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like – Jackie Mason
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Monday, January 14, 2008
Animators Wisdom
I just realized that there’s going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way – Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Friday, January 11, 2008
Astronomer & Astrochemist Wisdom
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. – Carl Sagan
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Educator Wisdom
One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present. – Stephen Covey
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
American Author Wisdom
"The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses." - Erica Jong
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
American Poet Wisdom
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work – Robert Frost
Monday, January 07, 2008
Friday, January 04, 2008
Orwellian Wisdom
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. – George Orwell
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Comedic Wisdom
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it’s just sort of a tired feeling. – Paul Poundstone
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Earl of Orford Wisdom
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. – Horace Walpole
Friday, December 21, 2007
Deacon Wisdom
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness. And the serious look may be the sover veil that covers a divine peace and joy. – Edward Chapin
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Mathemetician Wisdom
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind geometry. – Martin Gardner
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Monday, December 17, 2007
Marketer Wisdom
Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. – E. Joseph Cossman
Friday, December 14, 2007
Science Fiction Wisdom
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power – David Brin
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Canadian Novelist Wisdom
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. – Robertson Davies
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Comedic Wisdom
You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there. – George Burns
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Theoretical Physicist Wisdom
If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day. – John A. Wheeler
Monday, December 10, 2007
Essayist Wisdom
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being unjust – E. B. White
Friday, December 07, 2007
Writer Wisdom
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night – Edgar Allan Poe
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Management Consultant Wisdom
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. – Peter Drucker
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Friday, November 30, 2007
American Comedienne Wisdom
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity - Gilda Radner
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Radio Host Wisdom
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer’s heart. – Fred Allen
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Cowboy Wisdom
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. – Will Rogers
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Comedic Wisdom
Hello Seeker!
Now don’t feel alone here in the New Age because there’s a seeker born every minute! – Firesign Theatre
Now don’t feel alone here in the New Age because there’s a seeker born every minute! – Firesign Theatre
Monday, November 26, 2007
TV Show Host Wisdom
The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren’t any space aliens. We can’t be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we’re not all there is. If so…we’re in big trouble. – Ellen DeGeneres
Friday, November 23, 2007
Sexual Therapist Wisdom
What we call “Progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance – Havelock Ellis
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Roman Statesman Wisdom
Friendships make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. - Cicero
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Media Executive Wisdom
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. – Robert W Sarnoff
Monday, November 19, 2007
Novelist Wisdom
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say “I want to see the manager”. William S Burroughs
Friday, November 16, 2007
Cartoonist Wisdom
Correct me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? – George Price
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Zen Wisdom
Before enlightenment,
I chopped wood and carried water.
After enlightenment,
I chopped wood and carried water.
-Zen saying
Journalistic Wisdom
All animals are equal….but some animals are more equal than others – George Orwell
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Jazz Artist Wisdom
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don’t, you’re simply ducking your responsibilities. – Ann Richards
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Expressionis Artist Wisdom
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time – Willem de Kooning
Monday, November 12, 2007
Friday, November 09, 2007
Motivational Speaker Wisdom
Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced…an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you. – Meladee McCarty
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Irish Playwrite Wisdom
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution – Oscar Wilde
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
French Author Wisdom
The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in streets and to steal bread. – Anatole France
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Monday, November 05, 2007
Friday, November 02, 2007
Writer Wisdom
Never explain…..your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway – Elbert Hubbard
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Physicist Wisdom
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the US National deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. – Richard Feynman
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Halloween Wisdom
Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
All are on their rounds tonight;
In the wan moon's silver ray,
Thrives their helter-skelter play.
~Joel Benton
All are on their rounds tonight;
In the wan moon's silver ray,
Thrives their helter-skelter play.
~Joel Benton
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Comedic Wisdom
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing – Redd Foxx
Monday, October 29, 2007
Modernist Wisdom
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. ~ Katherine Mansfield
Friday, October 26, 2007
Novelist Wisdom
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. – Charles Dickens
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Comedic Wisdom
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.- Jonathan Winters
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Satirist Wisdom
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story about how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than the future. – Chuck Palahniuk
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Foster's Law
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders – Foster’s Law
Monday, October 22, 2007
Friday, October 19, 2007
Painter Wisdom
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.- Henry Miller
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Comedic Wisdom
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. – Billy Vaughan
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
French Author Wisdom
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. – Jules Renard
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Italian Philosopher Wisdom..
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else – Umberto Eco
Monday, October 15, 2007
Friendship Wisdom
A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move the body. - Anonymous
Friday, October 12, 2007
Roman Wisdom
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. - Cicero
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Philosophical Wisdom
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments – Friedrich Neitzsche
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Submariner Wisdom
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. The must be driven into practice with courageous patience. Hyman Rickover
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Jazz Musician Wisdom
I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions,intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find...that truth is basically simple - and feels good, clean and right. - Chick Corea (1941-) American Jazz Musician
Friday, October 05, 2007
Thursday, October 04, 2007
American Writer Wisdom...
Genius may have it’s limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped – Elbert Hubbard
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Academy Award Winning Actor Wisdom
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. - Peter Ustinov
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Presidential Wisdom
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. Woodrow Wilson
Friday, September 28, 2007
Biker Wisdom...
Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved - anonymous
Thursday, September 27, 2007
First Lady Wisdome
Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water! Eleanor Roosevelt
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Race Car Driver Wisdom
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. - Doug Larson
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Ancient Wisdom
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. - Dandemis
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Scottish Wisdom
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us - Alexander Graham Bell
Friday, September 21, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Chinese Philosopher Wisdom
There is no calmaity greater than lavish desires
There is no greater guilt than discontentment
And there is no greater disaster than greed.
Lao-tzu
There is no greater guilt than discontentment
And there is no greater disaster than greed.
Lao-tzu
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Spanish Wisdom
"The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise." - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Journalistic Wisdom
Just because your voice reached halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reache only to the end of the bar. - Edward R Murrow
Monday, September 17, 2007
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Transcendental Wisdom
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? -- Henry David Thoreau
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Comedic Wisdom
"I’VE GIVEN UP on the whole human species. I think a big, good-sized comet is exactly what this species needs. You know, the poor dinosaurs were walking around eating leaves, and they were completely wiped out. Let the insects have a go. You know, I don’t think they’ll come up with sneakers with lights in them, or Dust Busters, or Salad Shooters, or snot candy. . . . I only wish there were some way I could live out on the moon and watch it all on CNN. . . I just want to describe the mess. But life is dual. If you scratch a cynic, you’ll find a disappointed idealist."-George Carlin, comedian, writer, The Progressive (July 2001)
Friday, September 07, 2007
Monday, September 03, 2007
just a quick note...
to let you all know
that I have tendinitis
and am trying to save my "posting time" for
when I'm at work....one does have to eat ya know....
I have every intention of being back when
working at the computer doesn't hurt...or hurts less
in the interim....here's a quote for you...
Life is like a rose . . . more exquisite and precious, when shared with others - Jane Oechsle Lauer
that I have tendinitis
and am trying to save my "posting time" for
when I'm at work....one does have to eat ya know....
I have every intention of being back when
working at the computer doesn't hurt...or hurts less
in the interim....here's a quote for you...
Life is like a rose . . . more exquisite and precious, when shared with others - Jane Oechsle Lauer
Friday, August 17, 2007
British Author Wisdom
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon - Susan Ertz
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Lithuanian Violinist Wisdom
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. - Jascha Heifetz
Monday, July 30, 2007
Holly daze...
Hello faithful readers.....
I'm leaving on the 2nd on holly daze
will be back on the 16th ish
so I'm giving myself a wee break to prepare
for the grand exit
and the even grander return....
stay tuned!
ya know I'm too mouthy to stay quiet for long
LoL
I'm leaving on the 2nd on holly daze
will be back on the 16th ish
so I'm giving myself a wee break to prepare
for the grand exit
and the even grander return....
stay tuned!
ya know I'm too mouthy to stay quiet for long
LoL
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Amazon Wisdom
Never pack a rain suit AND sunblock.
Murphy will get confused and make it snow. - Amazon Tee on the White Rhino
Murphy will get confused and make it snow. - Amazon Tee on the White Rhino
Friday, July 20, 2007
Scottish Novelist Wisdom
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant – Robert Louis Stevenson
Friday, July 13, 2007
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Irish Wisdom
All that is necesary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
German Philosopher Wisdom
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Friday, July 06, 2007
Countess of Westmoreland Wisdom
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are...you need one. - Jane Howard
Thursday, July 05, 2007
British Wisdom
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. - Samuel Johnson
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Caliph Wisdom
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. - Ali ibn-Abi Talib
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. - Ali ibn-Abi Talib
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