"A healthy adult male bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience." - John Updike

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."

A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment - the Cowboy's Guide to Life

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. - Andre Gide

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“To be honest I really never have been nervous in the big leagues. This is what I wanted to do my whole life,”

Cliff Lee - Oct 28, 2009

In the first game of the 2009 World Series, Philadelphia Phillie's pitcher Cliff Lee bamboozled the Yankees with a spiked curveball, deceptive changeup and his usual pinpoint fastball, pitching a six-hitter while striking out 10 without a walk. He became the first since Don Newcombe in 1949 to fan double digits with no walks in a Series game. Source: Yahoo Sports

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"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it”

- James Boswell, 29 October 1740

After the initial euphoria of witnessing the first atomic explosion passed, Trinity nuclear test director Kenneth Bainbridge commented to Los Alamos director J. Robert Oppenheimer, "Now we are all sons of bitches."

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. - James Thurber

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"Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are."

Kurt Cobain (1967 - 1994)

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Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos.

william gaddis

"All your base are belong to us." - Cats

If at first you don't succeed, redefine success,
lul:)

"Admit that your own private Mount Everest exists. That is half the battle."

"If your plan depends on you suddenly being 'discovered' by some big shot, your plan will probably fail."

Hugh Macleod - gapingvoid blog

Anytime you start to think you're getting to be important, a big-shot, or better than others... just try ordering someone else's dog around.
- The Cowboy's Guide to Life

True! And you don't even have to go looking for somebody else's dog; the axiom holds true with your own dog more often than not....

:)

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley

"I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet."

Elston Gunnn

I came across this the other day and it is more memorable than many things people say, I think.

“Find your true weakness and surrender to it. Therein lies the path
to genius. Most people spend their lives using their strengths to
overcome or cover up their weaknesses. Those few who use their strengths
to incorporate their weaknesses, who don’t divide themselves, those
people are very rare. In any generation there... are a few and they lead
their generation. ”

-Moshe Feldenkrais

"If you do not want to be criticized;

Say nothing,

Do nothing,

BE nothing."

-"The Fog"

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

-George Bernard Shaw

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

George Jean Nathan

"Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another ... The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness."

-- M. Scott Peck

If you want to make big money, start a religion. - L Ron Hubbard, then sci fi writer - later started scientology