Outta my way

When you are on fire, people WILL get out of your way. - Richard Pryor

Tick-tock

You may delay, but time will not.  - Benjamin Franklin 

Peter & Paul

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.  - George Bernard Shaw 

Old doctors

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.  - Willie Nelson


Today's quote honors Sts. Cosmas & Damian, twin brothers and physicians.

The man in the mirror

One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father. - Christopher Walken 

You're Special - - or not

There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you. - A. Whitney Brown

A diplomat

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

Explorers HO!

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food.  ~Erma Bombeck

The beginning

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. - Louis L'Amour

Honesty is the best policy

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson

It's a lazy quote from the bottom of the page.  Too many other things to do at the moment.

ARR! Talk like a pirate!

Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.  - Fred Willard



Since I missed Saturday, consider this my atonement and and an invitation to talk like a pirate as we celebrate http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

Once is enough

You only live once - but if you work it right,  once is enough. -  Joe E. Lewis

Listen to me now, believe me later.

Great boasters, little doers. - French Proverb

Awww, too bad

There is nothing like the sight of an enemy down on his luck. - Euripides

Mercy & Justice

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. - G. K. Chesterton

Greeks bearing gifts

Things forbidden have a secret charm. - Greek Proverb

Wise words for today

Never spend your money before you have it. - Thomas Jefferson

Too bad we don't follow his advice personally and politically. It's always easy to spend someone else's money or money that you didn't earn.

Surprise!

The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever. - Luc de Clapiers de Vanvenargues

In an hour

A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year . - Polish Proverb

Fated

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in the fate that falls on men unless they act. - G. K. Chesterton

Undrstanding

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed. - Helen Keller

I have yet to read anything by Helen Keller, but everything I come across one of her quotes I am always impressed by her wisdom and grasp of the human situation.

Mom & Pop

If poverty is the mother of crime, stupidity is its father. - Jean de La Bruyere

The festival & cruise

Life is a festival only to the wise. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would add that it is a festival to those who have faith and believe in something greater than themselves or the given moment. Rather than worry about the existential "meaning of life", just accept that life does have meaning and we are privileged to contribute our small part to its overall mystery.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. - Robert Louis Stevenson

OUCH!  A bit grim given the previous quote, but his point is no less true.  SO, enjoy the cruise for as long as it goes.

This weeks quotes come to you from The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time .  A bit pretentious in title, but a good collection of quotes.

Work worth doing

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt


Happy Labor Day to all!   I hope it is relaxing and enjoyable.

Mirror, mirror on the wall

The greatest of faults . . . is to be conscious of none. - Thomas Carlyle

Contradiction in terms

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. - Chesterton

Listening more closely

When I don't like a piece of music, I make it a point of listening more closely. - Florent Schmitt

Unlearning

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. - Chesterton