New Day - New Wisdom

[Jenny]

I came up with this one myself yesterday, after losing my cool:

It's hard to get up on your high horse when you're flinging mud on the ground

(I am open to wordsmithing)

How about - it’s hard to get up on your high horse when you're knee deep (or wallowing) in shit

 

[Tom Co.]

Fear make us cling to things that exist only in our mind.

 

[Bad Bob]

 

[Tom Co.]

I just received this list of quotes from my cousin.
A lot of oldies but goodies

A member of Parliament to Disraeli:
"Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable
disease." "That depends, Sir, "
said Disraeli,
"whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
"He had delusions of adequacy
."
Walter Kerr
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
Winston Churchill
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
Clarence Darrow
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
Moses Hadas
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
Mark Twain
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
Oscar Wilde
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one.
"
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."
Winston Churchill, in
response
"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
Stephen Bishop
"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
John Bright
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
Irvin S. Cobb
"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
Samuel Johnson
"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
Paul Keating
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
Forrest Tucker
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
Mark Twain
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
Mae West
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde


"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.
"
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
Billy Wilder
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it."
Groucho Marx

 

[Don in Morrison]

Most kids think that the word "now" means an open-ended expanse of time.

 

[Monique]

On Pema Chodron's facebook page yesterday:

"All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions. And at bottom, those opinions are merely our efforts to escape the underlying uneasiness of being human, the uneasiness of feeling like we can’t get ground under our feet. So we hold on to our fixed ideas of this is how it is and disparage any opposing views. But imagine what the world would be like if we could come to see our likes and dislikes as merely likes and dislikes, and what we take to be intrinsically true as just our personal viewpoint."
~ Pema Chodron
From her book Living Beautifully With Uncertainty and Change

 

[Tricia]

To honor Chadwick Boseman;
“When you are deciding on the next steps, next jobs, next careers, further education, you should rather find purpose than a job or a career. Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you.”

 

[Uncle-A]

To honor Chadwick Boseman;
“When you are deciding on the next steps, next jobs, next careers, further education, you should rather find purpose than a job or a career. Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you.”

Is this something he said or a line he said in one of his movies?

 

[Tricia]

Is this something he said or a line he said in one of his movies?

That is something he said when he gave the commencement speach at Howard University in 2018.

 

[Tricia]

In the Tahoe thread, Dory shared some wisdom he picked up from his dog on a hike.
#47
I just came back from a short hike with the dog that reminded me that no matter what the world is doing, always stop and sniff the coyote pee.

 

[Bad Bob]

Not "new", but this seemed like the place for it.

 

[Uncle-A]

I did not go back and check if this was posted already but I saw it on FB so I just thought it should be shared.

"Be the "I" in KIND"

 

[Bad Bob]

This one just kind of says it.

 

[Tricia]

This one just kind of says it.

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Amen!

 

[Uncle-A]

If you don't heal what hurt you, you'll bleed on those that didn't cut you.

 

[DanoT]

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.

Wisedom is knowing to not put a tomato in a fruit salad.

 

[Mothertucker]

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold." Helen Keller

 

[Bad Bob]

"We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content."
-- Emile Zola

 

[Jim Kenney]

Paraphrasing Mother Theresa: Never travel ski faster than your guardian angel can fly.

 

[Tom Co.]

“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to Hell in such a way that they ask for directions:

Winston Churchill