“An empty tin makes a lot of noise.” ― African Proverb, Kenya

“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Gentle lady, do not sing
Sad songs about the end of love;
Lay aside sadness and sing
How love that passes is enough.

Sing about the long deep sleep
Of lovers that are dead, and how
In the grave all love shall sleep:
Love is aweary now.”
― James Joyce, Chamber Music

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” ― T.S. Eliot

diamonds

“No pressure, no diamonds”― Thomas Carlyle

"What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?"~ Robert Hughes

Robert Hughes

[R.I.P]~“Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety in numbers. If one wants Schnabel, they all want Schnabel, if one buys a Keith Haring, two hundred Keith Harings will be sold.” ― Robert Hughes

Palahniuk

“Remember this. The people you're trying to step on, we're everyone you depend on. We're the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you're asleep. We drive the ambulances. W...

e direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges. We control every part of your life.
We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact. So don't fuck with us.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

James Ellroy

“America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.” ― James Ellroy

Gore Vidal

“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.” ― Gore Vidal ~[R.I.P.]

“Punishment belongs to the evil will—no matter whence it comes. Otherwise, no misdeed would be punished. There is always a cause of the will outside of the willing subject, and yet it is the will that makes us human beings and persons—sinners, blessed, damned.”~ Leibniz, Gottfried and Robert C. Sleigh, Jr. (Translator). Confessio Philosophi. 1671–1678.~

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
― Noam Chomsky

Diogenes

“Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.” ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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   Diogenes, would take a dump or a pizz where-ever he pleased
  
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   He even rejected normal ideas about human decency. Diogenes is said to have eaten in the marketplace,[40] urinated on some people who insulted him,[41] defecated in the theatre,[42] masturbated in public, and pointed at people with his middle finger.

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.” ― Rumi

PUNch

“When a head is too big it cannot avoid punches.” ― African Proverb

“What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...” ― Voltaire

“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.” ― Michel de Montaigne

Pride

[pride]-“None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.” ― Baruch Spinoza

When you become senile........... you won't know it.

tugboat

“Not only are mortals rotten, the very atmosphere in which we live is materially and physically rotten, swarming with maggots, with obscene appearances, poisonous minds, and foul organisms.” ― Antonin Artaud

“Life ... is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” ―William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.” ― Edith Piaf

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“A host of scorpions crawl out from under the wetnurse's dress and start swarming in her vagina which swells and splits, becomes transparent and shimmers like the sun” ― Antonin Artaud

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view” ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.", -Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011)

“All you have to do to educate a person is leave him alone... and teach them to read. The rest is brainwashing."― Ellen Gilcrist

“One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.” ― Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade

"There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good People Drink Good Beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public bar room and you will quickly see: Bad People Drink Bad Beer. Think about it." ~Hunter S. Thompson

Siddhartha

“You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.”― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Trickle-down theory - the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.” ― John Kenneth Galbraith

 I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells.

dumb-ass?

“Are you always a dumb-ass?'-Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”

Pierre Poutine

I'm not fluent in IDIOT, So please talk slowly and clearly I'm not fluent in IDIOT, So please type it clearly - Pierre Poutine

“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."~(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”

Might something similar account for the origin of the universe itself? Quite plausibly, says Wilczek. “There is no barrier between nothing and a rich universe full of matter,” he says. Perhaps the big bang was just nothingness doing what comes naturally.

“We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

“A person wrapped up in them----selfs..... makes a very small parcel.” ― John Ruskin

Thomas Carlyle

“Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. ” ― Thomas Carlyle

Belleville, Ontario

“The tragedy of life is not so much what - men suffer, but rather what they miss.”― Thomas Carlyle

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“There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing to satisfy themselves with the limited space any more: instead of keeping within the limits of a temperate style of thinking, and taking as inviolable truth what furnishes comfort and tranquility to thousands, they overlap all bounds of the traditional and run wild with their imprudent criticism and untamed mania for doubt, these extravagating vagabonds.”― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist”~~~~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We never know the worth of water -'til the well is dry.~English Proverb

“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.”
― Christopher Hitchens

A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support. ~Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1792

and .........“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”
― George Carlin

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“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein