To Each His Own

1. So long as the US gub’ment ain’t runnin’ a pussy deficit—me, personally, really don’t give a shit.—A character in Redbone

2. Don’t listen to everything people say. You might hear your servant insulting you.—Ecclesiastus 1:27

3. Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek film:


--Life is trouble, only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.

--I have got to go fast. You know, they say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears death coming. He opens the door and says:

“Come in, Give me rest.”

That is a pack of old damn lies. I have got enough fire in me to devour the world. So…I fight.

--God has a very big heart, but there is one sin he will not forgive: If a woman calls a man to her bed, and he will not go.

--A man needs a little madness or else he will never dare cut the rope and be free.

4. Life must be lived forward, but it can only be understood backwards—Soren Kiekergaard

5. Buddha: I am awake.

6. Rene Descartes: Cogito, ergo sum---outdated!

7. T pray is to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy --Ambrose Bierce—bravo!

8. I laugh when I hear the fish in the sea are thirsty—Kabir

9. Napoleon: To get power you need to display absolute pettiness. To exercise power you need to exercise greatness. Such pettiness and such greatness are rarely found in one person.—I agree

10. When I ask God, God is silent. Why then do I try to explain God's existence when it is shrouded in mistery?-- Anon