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pafret Loc: Northeast

"Don't Worry..."

"Don't worry; you'll understand eventually. Well, actually,
no you won't, but in time you'll learn to f**e it better."
- Lester the D**gon Lizard, on life in general.

"How It Really Is"

Well, you can leave out the "think" part for this bunch...

"Ten Years After the Crash, We’ve Learned Nothing"

"Mencken, Where Are You Now That We Need You?"

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“Henry Louis Mencken (12 September 1880 – 29 January 1956), usually designated simply H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth-century journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American Nietzsche". He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century.”
- https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken

"Troubles..."

"I learned there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead, others come from behind.
But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see.
Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me."
– Dr. Seuss

"That Tiny Light..."

"Hope is that tiny light that the gods have given us so that we can find our way through our darkest hours. And while we might stub our toes and bruise our knees, if we keep moving forward, even when our progress is slow and painful, we will overcome and be made better by our journey. No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so."
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

"I Tried My Best..."

"We are one knot in a great web of being, building out of the vast past and (with luck) continuing billions of years into the future, until the sun dies, the last of its energy reaches Earth, and our local light goes out. The most appropriate response to the world is to realize, with awe, the ferocious mystery of being alive in it. And act accordingly. The worst thing anyone should be able to say about their life is also the greatest thing anyone can say: 'I tried my best."
- Carl Safina

"The State..."

“The state- or, to make matters more concrete, the government- consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can’t get, and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time it is made good by l**ting ‘A’ to satisfy ‘B’. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every e******n is a sort of advance auction on stolen goods.”
- H.L. Mencken, 1929

"Now I've Learned..."

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems
don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end."
- Gilda Radner

"The Cloak Of The Past..."

“The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or d**g it behind us as we struggle to go on. But everything has its cause and its meaning. Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see. Sometimes, we see the past so clearly, and read the legend of its parts with such acuity, that every stitch of time reveals its purpose, and a kind of message is enfolded in it. Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow. And in the tiny, precious wisdom that they give to us, even those dread and h**ed enemies, suffering and failure, have their reason and their right to be.”
- Gregory David Roberts, “Shantaram”
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Graphic: "A Flemish Proverb.
‘A Wife Hiding Her Infidelity From Her Husband Under A Blue Cloak’
Pieter Bruegel The Younger, late 16th century."
- https://vulgarcrowd.wordpress.com/

"Chaos Is A Ladder..."

- "Petyr Baelish"

"If You Are Not Confused..."

- Tom Peters

"How It Really Was?"

"There Is Always The Hope..."

"What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, c***ting and k*****g, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time. Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse. This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again."
- Inga Muscio

"Sign Over The Gates Of Hell..."

Sign over the gates of Hell:
"Doesn't mean you're a bad person."
~ Robert Brault

"Sit, Be Still, And Listen..."

"Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk,
and we're at the edge of the roof."
- Rumi

"Human Nature..."

“The more one analyzes people, the more all reasons
for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to
that dreadful universal thing called human nature.”
- Oscar Wilde

"There is a great deal of human nature in people."
- Mark Twain

"What can we know? What are we all?
Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite,
with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"We Have Only This Moment...."

"We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand...
and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late."
- Marie Beyon Ray

"The Natural Inheritance..."

"Everyone who has reached even their intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential dearth in which its subject's roots are plunged. The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters."
- Henry James Sr.

"The Only Question..."

“Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether
it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"The Darkest Places; Scary Questions..."

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who
maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
- Dan Brown
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“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance.
We don't know because we don't want to know.”
- Aldous Huxley
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"If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions."
- Samuel L. Jackson as "Jules Winnfield", "Pulp Fiction"

"Half The People..."

"The natural man has a difficult time getting along in this world.
Half the people think he is a scoundrel because he is not a hypocrite."
- Ed Howe

"Waiting..."

“If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen,
you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights
to be green for five miles before starting the trip.”
- Robert Kiyosaki

You know, folks, after awhile you get used to ignorance and stupidity being the norm,
and you start to think "people simply cannot be this astoundingly stupid"; and it never fails,
something new comes along to prove they can indeed be stupider than mud...
George Carlin

Carol Kelly

pafret wrote:

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Mencken and George Carlin, but all are provocative. We fit in there in a lot of places.
I always enjoy reading your posts.

Manning345 Loc: Richmond, Virginia

pafret wrote:

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pafret, when you get to the end of your searches for sayings, wisdom, jokes, pictures, cartoons, and maybe charts in the future, you should compile them into a book, get releases from the originators if necessary, and publish it. Reserve a copy for me!

pafret Loc: Northeast

Manning345 wrote:

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pafret, when you get to the end of your searches for sayings, wisdom, jokes, pictures, cartoons, and maybe charts in the future, you should compile them into a book, get releases from the originators if necessary, and publish it. Reserve a copy for me!

Wish I could, I am probably violating many laws in these reposts. Since the original posters published in blogs, with free membership, I basically don't look too closely and I try to give credits where possible.

That has reminded me that I have a collection that I intended to publish in that manner. It was to be a compendim of office humor circulated as memos containing satirical and scurrilious humor collected over twenty years in the work force. I was going to Title it as "Office Scatology". It got put aside and when I looked at it ten years later, it was all dated material that no one would understand for the most part. "You had to be there."

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Loved 'em all, Pafret...but, I am especially fond of Mencken. I might just mention that the newspaperman, Hornbeck, played by Gene Kelly in 'Inherit The Wind' was modeled after Mencken. Mencken actually covered the trial for The Baltimore Sun.