LIFE would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. MARK TWAIN
HAN SUYIN 1917-2012. “A MANY-SPLENDORED THING”DIED 11/2.
EXPLOITATION AND OPPRESSION is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the powers behave the way they did.
THERE IS NOT ANYTHING IN THE WORLD STRONGER THAN TENDERNESS.
THE RICE BOWL is to me the most valid reason in the world for doing anything. A piece of one’s soul to the multitudes in return for rice and wine does not seem to me a sacrilege.
TRUTH LIKE SURGERY, MAY HURT, BUT IT CURES.
WE ARE ALL PRODUCTS OF OUR TIME, VULNERABLE TO HISTORY.
PEOPLE NEVER THINK ABOUT WORDS, THEY ONLY FEEL THEM.
GOLDFISH ARE FLOWERS . . . FLOWERS THAT MOVE.
PEOPLE bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.
IT IS the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.
ONE SHOULD NEVER CONDEMN WHAT ONE CANNOT UNDERSTAND.
SADNESS IS SO UNGRATEFUL.
LOVE can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.
WITH SOME PEOPLE there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal.
NO SINGLE CRISIS shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear.
A FAMILY IS A BURIAL MOUND OF ITS OWN DOINGS & SAYINGS.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW 1856-1950 “Pygmalion” “Major Barbara”
LIFE isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
THE LONGER I LIVE, the more convinced am I that this planet is uses by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
BEWARE of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.ignorance.
WRITE YOUR TIMES IN SAND,
WRITE YOUR GOOD TIMES IN STONE.
WE DON’T STOP PLAYING BECAUSE WE GROW OLD; we grow old because we stop playing.
THE REASONABLE man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
WAR DOES NOT DECIDE WHO IS RIGHT BUT WHO IS LEFT.
NOW that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing — to learn to live on earth as human beings.
IF YOU can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
IT IS THE FIRST DUTY OF EVERY MAN NOT TO BE POOR.
OUR NECESSITIES ARE FEW BUT OUR WANTS ARE ENDLESS.
THE PERSON I MISS MOST IS THE ONE I COULD HAVE BEEN.
THE TEST of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
MOST PEOPLE DO NOT PRAY; THEY ONLY BEG.
YOU USE A GLASS MIRROR TO SEE YOUR FACE; YOU USE WORKS OF ART TO SEE YOUR SOUL.
THE only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
THE SECRET TO SUCCESS is to offend the greatest number of people.
LIFE IS NO BRIEF CANDLE TO ME. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold on for the moment and I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
EXPERIENCE FAILS TO TEACH WHERE THERE IS NO DESIRE TO LEARN.
THE THINGS most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
A SOCIALIST is somebody who doesn’t have anything and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
THE ONLY WAY to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
OLD MEN ARE DANGEROUS: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
LIFE IS A FIRST DRAFT . . . WITH NO REWRITE.