The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meanings. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
Stanley Kubrick 1928-1999
There is nothing so hypnotic as the truth - Frank Lloyd Wright
Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.
- Rick Pitino
We see what we believe rather than believe what we see
- Alan Watts
Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans
- John Lennon
Haste is a kind of violence - Buddhist philosophy
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything - fortune cookie
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
- Isaac Asimov (as Hari Seldon)
The tragic comes from the accumulation of the insignificant - Max Apple
Sell your cleverness. Buy bewilderment - Rumi
There are many more people trying to meet the right
person than to become the right person - Gloria Steinem
You won't be happy with more until you're happy with
what you've got - Viki King
Children today are being molded into consumers by the
media before they've had a chance to shape their souls - ?
Take your magic where you find it - John Flomer
"Insanity" is continuing to do the same thing you've always
done and expecting a different outcome - Sigmund Freud
Don't let your sense of morals get in the way of doing
what is right - Isaac Asimov (as Salvor Hardin)
People who have no hopes are easy to control
- attributed to Michael Ende
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity,
and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them - Joseph Heller
They'll hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool - John Lennon
As a decrease in spiritual thought is proportional to an increase
in material gain, it is safe to assume that, as we leave our
magic behind, greed will become the only frontier.
- John Flomer
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely
set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness,
the red wine of Shiraz into urine - Isak Dinesen
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police - Robert Louis Stevenson
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion
- Voltaire
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you - ?
To trust is good, not to trust is better - Irish Proverb
Be careful when you point your finger; there are three
fingers pointing back at you - Arab Proverb
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional - ?
You get what you tolerate - ?
We learn by resistance. Learning without resistance is programming.
- John Flomer
The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes - Mark Twain
If you look up and you're not there, you've fallen.
- attributed to John Flomer
Good credit means nothing if you have bad taste - Dane Stauffer
Whining is anger coming through too small of a hole -?
The only difference between a rut and a grave is the
depth of the excavation - ?
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as
effective as a rightly timed pause - Mark Twain
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything - ?
Don't be so humble, you're not that great - Golda Meir
Imagination is more important than knowledge - Einstein
It's what we learn after we think we know it all that counts - Kin Hubbard
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew
he would never be found out - ??
The most absurd and tragic of all aspirations is to live a normal life.
- John Flomer
True morality consists not in following the beaten
track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves
and fearlessly following it. -- Mohandas Gandhi
Some people never learn anything because they understand everything too soon - Alexander Pope
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning - Louis L'Amour
Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone,
and the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone - Paul Tillich
Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it - Chinese proverb
So, I was having this really great dream. At the end when
the credits were rolling, I saw it - "Made in China."
- John Flomer
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- Aldous Huxley
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise person the rest of your life - ??
A dog is a dog until he is facing you - then he is Mr. Dog
- A Haitian farmer -
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. - Marcel Proust
I shave my beard it makes vomiting easier. - John Barryman
God is not man's greatest invention, but his greatest misunderstanding.
- attributed to John Flomer
Do not presume to be alive just because no one has found your body.
- Dave the Security Guard
It's not a drinking problem, it's a drinking opportunity. - Dick Shaw
When you're making Rock records, you're aiming between people's legs...not at their brains.
??
Those who agree in the "balance of nature" are those who don't get eaten.
- sign in a college admissions office
The only thing good about "the good old days" are the memories. It is the memories I want to re-live, not the reality. - John Flomer
Listen, there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go! - E.E. Cummings
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
- Quentin Crisp -
Kill your television twice, just to make sure it's dead. - John Flomer
Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics, the world would not progress.
- Frank Burgess
Time is a great teacher but, unfortunately, it kills all its pupils - Hector Berlioz
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
- Thomas Edison
It takes a long time to understand nothing. - Edward Dahlberg
A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation - C.E. Ayres
Life is a sport difficult to comprehend, but the rules are quite simple
- the players are terminal and the game never ends - John Flomer
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned
find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
One person's constant is another person's variable. - Susan Gerhart
You can interpret it any way you want, but a shark's eyes say only one thing - meat.
- John Flomer
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left
to add,but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Few people have the imagination for reality - Goethe
Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe. - Frank Zappa
- The Loser's Chorus -
Let's get together over some coffee and dwell on past mistakes,
plan for future failures, and figure out someone or something to blame.
- John Flomer
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - H.L. Mencken
Isn't it a drag? Just when you thought it was safe to bum out - more good news!
- John Flomer
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughn
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying.
Woody Allen
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going to a garage makes you an automobile. - W.A. Sunday
Time is a system we have devised to determine the linear disintegration rate of our asses being blown across space. - John Flomer
I against my brother; I and my brother against my cousin; I and my cousin against the world. - Arab Proverb
Flomer's definition of a lunatic:
Anyone who believes that we are the only show in the universe.
You don't lose your girlfriend in Ketchikan. You just lose your turn.
- the locals
Life is a sandwich and we are the lunch meat. Time will
eat us alive, but leave the crust. - John Flomer
If I love you, what business is that of yours? - Goethe
Conformity isn't slavery, it's just pathetic. - John Flomer
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
- Wilson Mizner
Genius does what it must, talent does what it can - fortune cookie
T.V. is basically an alternative to living. - Garth Ancier
We should all be concerned about the future because we will all
have to spend the rest of our lives there. - Charles Kettering
Reality is often inaccurate. - Douglas Adams
I tune in, therefore I duh. - John Flomer
Humor can blow the cobwebs out
of your heart. - ?
You eat what you eat because of
what you are. - Bill Lawren
Unhappy people don't eat popcorn. - ?
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason to hope. ?
A good laugh and a good cry both cleanse the mind. - ?
Only when it's dark enough, can you see the stars. - emerson
Vegetarians be damned in a dog-eat-dog world. - John Flomer
If your smile is crooked, try eating with your other hand. - John Flomer
Apples and oranges mix very well despite reports to the contrary. Try the juice. - John Flomer
When you're depressed - sing. It will lift you out of the garbage and into the clouds.
- John Flomer
Happiness is the quest of those unfortunate people who have not used misery to their advantage.
- John Flomer
Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. - ?
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. - bumpersticker
Thanks for being wrong. - John Flomer
Reality is for people who lack imagination. - bumpersticker
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - bumpersticker
Contrary to long held assumptions, ice cream does have bones.
You've just got to know where to look. - John Flomer
It has been said that we need three bones in our lives - a backbone to have
courage and purposefulness, a wishbone to follow the dreams in our hearts,
and a funny bone to be able to laugh when the going gets tough.
- quote on a box of tea / author unknown
Music is the greatest good that mortals know - John Milton
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds - Albert Einstein
