A Wise Person Once Said ...

[lisa jones]

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

- Arnold H. Glasgow

[TomB]

"Fucking Hippies"
- TomB


"the meek shall inherit the earth"
- pacifist moron.

[lisa jones]

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

- Albert Einstein

[lisa jones]

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

- Horace Mann

One of my favs.

[The Artist formerly known as Sappho]

Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see, And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be — Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a liar from his birth, With a record of unreason seldom paralleled on earth. While I looked he reared him solemnly, that incandescent youth, From the coals that he'd preferred to the advantages of truth. He cast his eyes about him and above him; then he wrote On a slab of thin asbestos what I venture here to quote — For I read it in the rose-light of the everlasting glow: "Cloudy; variable winds, with local showers; cooler; snow."
—Halcyon Jones

[The Artist formerly known as Sappho]

AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.

Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary, 1906.

I contend that Australia is an atoll with the inland sea long gone.

[lisa jones]

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

- William Shakespeare

[lisa jones]

[lisa jones]