The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
The wisdom of the wise. the experience of the ages, are perpetuated by quotations.
Disraeli
This is Volume 10 of Golden Moments, the condensed wisdom and folly of humankind from around the world and over the centuries. There are many illustrations among the 100 quotations, and a few funny fillers to give your brain a rest.
Each golden moment is an essence, a completeness, and great brain food. Read them in order if you like, or go Zen---quickly look at the possibilities and pick what grabs you. The interconnections emerge organically.
I’ve carefully mined these golden moments over my long life. If your judgment, taste, sense of humor, and belief systems are similar to mine you will love them. If not, read them anyway and expand what you can think, feel, become. I’m a cynical, free speech libertarian who laughs a lot and is a little crazy.
Old Man and a Young Woman wish to remain anonymous: He has lived a full life and tried hard to be honest and open-minded. Sometimes he succeeded. He’s not much for political correctness, or the warm, self-righteous comfort of a Noble Cause. Too many Noble Lies. She is a super-smart, foul-mouthed brat and a student at UC Berkeley majoring in philosophy and psychology. She says what she thinks and couldn’t care less if that bothers you.
1 Sudden in a shaft of sunlight,
Even while the dust moves,
There rises the hidden laughter
Of children in the foliage.
Quick now, here, now, always.
Ridiculous the waste sad time,
Stretching before and after.
T. S. Eliot
2 To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
Pablo Picasso
3 Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
Ray Bradbury
4 I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost
5 Between two worlds become much like each other,
So I find words I never thought to speak.
In streets I never thought I should revisit,
When I left my body on a distant shore.
T. S. Eliot
8 If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln
7 Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind.
George Orwell
8
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made. It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jean Giraudoux
9 If you hear:
“The fact of the matter is…”
“Let me be perfectly (very) clear…”
“To be perfectly frank…”
“To be 100% honest…”
“You know, I actually…”
“The truth of the matter is…”
“I’m being honest here…”
“As everybody knows…”
“Let’s be honest here…”
”Frankly…”
“I can honestly tell you…”
“I will always tell the truth.”
“I am not a crook…”
Get ready for a whopper, especially from politicians.
Old Man
10 Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Eleanor Roosevelt
11 I never drink water
because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
W. C. Fields
George Bernard Shaw
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
The wisdom of the wise. the experience of the ages, are perpetuated by quotations.
Disraeli
This is Volume 10 of Golden Moments, the condensed wisdom and folly of humankind from around the world and over the centuries. There are many illustrations among the 100 quotations, and a few funny fillers to give your brain a rest.
Each golden moment is an essence, a completeness, and great brain food. Read them in order if you like, or go Zen---quickly look at the possibilities and pick what grabs you. The interconnections emerge organically.
I’ve carefully mined these golden moments over my long life. If your judgment, taste, sense of humor, and belief systems are similar to mine you will love them. If not, read them anyway and expand what you can think, feel, become. I’m a cynical, free speech libertarian who laughs a lot and is a little crazy.
Old Man and a Young Woman wish to remain anonymous: He has lived a full life and tried hard to be honest and open-minded. Sometimes he succeeded. He’s not much for political correctness, or the warm, self-righteous comfort of a Noble Cause. Too many Noble Lies. She is a super-smart, foul-mouthed brat and a student at UC Berkeley majoring in philosophy and psychology. She says what she thinks and couldn’t care less if that bothers you.
1 Sudden in a shaft of sunlight,
Even while the dust moves,
There rises the hidden laughter
Of children in the foliage.
Quick now, here, now, always.
Ridiculous the waste sad time,
Stretching before and after.
T. S. Eliot
2 To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
Pablo Picasso
3 Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
Ray Bradbury
4 I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost
5 Between two worlds become much like each other,
So I find words I never thought to speak.
In streets I never thought I should revisit,
When I left my body on a distant shore.
T. S. Eliot
8 If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln
7 Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind.
George Orwell
8
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made. It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jean Giraudoux
9 If you hear:
“The fact of the matter is…”
“Let me be perfectly (very) clear…”
“To be perfectly frank…”
“To be 100% honest…”
“You know, I actually…”
“The truth of the matter is…”
“I’m being honest here…”
“As everybody knows…”
“Let’s be honest here…”
”Frankly…”
“I can honestly tell you…”
“I will always tell the truth.”
“I am not a crook…”
Get ready for a whopper, especially from politicians.
Old Man
10 Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Eleanor Roosevelt
11 I never drink water
because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
W. C. Fields
