Oxymoronica Humor

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert C. Benchley

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules. - Adam Bennett

Instant gratification takes too long. - Carrie Fisher

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life. - Gelett Burgess

Coming soon to a blog near you: Quotes from Oxymoronica

I love books of quotes, quotations and proverbs and sayings. When I started building my collection of books years ago, I went with all the old standard books of quotes, but as my collection grew, fun books like this one came along. The best things about quotes, is the amount of wisdom and humor that can be packed in just a few words.

OY VEY! - Some Yiddish Proverbs

Small children don’t let you sleep; big children don’t let you rest. - Yiddish Proverb 

All is not cream that comes from a cow. - Yiddish Proverb

He who is no good to himself is no good to another. - Yiddish Proverb

Taken from a little collection of proverbs, just happened to pick the Yiddish ones today. The first one made me chuckle and then I looked for some more fun Yiddish ones.

Hopeful thinking

Great hopes make great men. - Thomas Fuller

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Hope never abandons you; you abandon it. - George Weinberg

The gift of joy

Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: rejoice! Your kindness should be known to all. The Lord is near. Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God. Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. - Philippians 4: 4 - 7

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The very society of joy redoubles it; so that, while it lights upon my friend, it rebounds upon myself, and the brighter his candle burns, the more easily will it light mine. -  Robert Southey

The sanity of God

We should not be discouraged if our prayers go unanswered; if some were, we most certainly would have grave reservations about the sanity of God. - J.K. Stuart

What we turn out

The true test of civilization is, not the census nor the size of cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.-  Alfred North Whitehead