Wise Sayings...or Not

[bdalameda]

"If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly." – A humorous observation by Mrs. Beaver regarding the awe-inspiring nature of Aslan.

"He's not a tame lion." - Mrs Beaver

 

[docw1]

We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful what we pretend to be.—Kurt Vonnegut

 

[docw1]

Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid—Albert Einstein

 

[ST-DocLizard1]

You know your getting old:

"WHEN YOU REACH THAT STAGE IN LIFE WHEN IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU HAVE ANY LEAD LEFT IN YOUR PENCIL IF YOU HAVE NO ONE TO WRITE TO."

 

[Daboo]

This is one that always brings a feeling of peace to me. I found it on a calendar decades ago. It still moves me.

I do not know when I have had happier times in my soul, than when I have been sitting at work, with nothing before me but a candle and a white cloth, and hearing no sound but that
of my own breath, with God in my soul and heaven in my eye.
-- A Poor Methodist Woman, 18th Century

Chris

 

[docw1]

Care what other people think and you will always be their prisoner—Lao Tzu

 

[ST1100Y]

If it can't be expressed in true figures, it ain't science; its opinion. -- Robert A. Heinlein

 

[ST-DocLizard1]

Courtesy of my uncle who holds the family record for the most marriages at 5.

"MARRIAGE IS THE ONLY WAR WHERE YOU SLEEP WITH THE ENEMY DURING PEACETIME."

 

[docw1]

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ― Mae West

 

[ST1100Y]

Work hard, go unnoticed, taken for granted.
Work smart, get blamed.
Work barely, become a manager.

 

[docw1]

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. —FDR(maybe)

 

[St-Gerard]

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. —FDR(maybe)

On a poster I had with a picture of a Cat hanging off the rope by one Paw.

 

[Daboo]

Spotted this in a post on Twitchy just now.

Regarding the Artremis launch...

The fascination that we humans, as poet John Gillespie Magee put it, are able to 'let slip the surly bonds of Earth':

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.​

And then this kid nailed it:

CNN: "Why do you want to be here?... Why do you love being a part of history?

Kid: "We're going back to the **** moon, that's why!"

Chris

 

[Larry Fine]

 

[docw1]

Laughter and tears are both responses to exhaustion and frustration. I nmyself prefer to laugh because there is less cleanup to do afterwards. Kurt Vonnegut

 

[docw1]

Dark and difficult times lay ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy—Albus Dumbledore

 

[docw1]

"A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory."
— Mark Twain

 

[Daboo]

Dark and difficult times lay ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy—Albus Dumbledore

Sounds like Churchill.

 

[docw1]

It’s never too late to be what you might have been.—George Eliot

 

[Daboo]

It could describe today...

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." -- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens