Words of Wisdom.

The Truth is heavy, therefore few care to carry it. As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. —Josh Billings Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so. –Theodore Parker The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like [...]

“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence” Aristotle “Be [...]

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic [...]

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1.It’s completely impossible. 2.It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing. 2. I said it was a good idea all along. It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival [...]

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana” Groucho Marx “I’ve been on a calendar but I have never been on time” Marilyn Monroe “The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time” Leo Kennedy “Time nor tide wait for no man or woman” “Tough times never last, but tough people do!” Robert Schuller “Time and tide wait for [...]

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do [...]

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955) “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke quotes (English Writer of [...]

I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades…or a game of fake heart attack. – Demetri Martin So a man jumps into a taxi and says “King Arthur’s close” and the taxi driver says, “don’t worry we’ll lose him at the next lights”. – Tommy Cooper My wife was fitted with [...]

Irish-born writer James Joyce (1882-1941)noted for his experimental use of language in such works as Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce’s technical innovations in the art of the novel include an extensive use of interior monologue; he used a complex network of symbolic parallels drawn from the mythology, history, and literature, and created a [...]

   “A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!”    Charles Dickens  “I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most [...]