my favorite quotes.....

1. Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you. -Charlie Brown to Snoopy

2. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. - Benjamin Franklin

3. I, too, prefer the mud. - Ancient Chinese story

4. On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place. - Monty Python

5. Are you suggesting that coconuts are migratory? - Monty again....

6. “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!” - Jack Kerouac

7. Sex is one on the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant. - Henry Miller

8. I like you. When the world is mine, your death shall be quick and painless. - Stewie Griffin

9. Has anybody seen Mary? She has my last cigarette.....check the bathtub - she sleeps in there sometimes......maybe she, maybe she, maybe she swam away........Stone Temple Pilots, Wet My Bed

10. We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection - Anais Nin

11. the threads that connect us to other living things. Newspapers will run a headline: 'Shark kills human.' You never see a headline from the other perspective: 'Man swims in shark-infested water, forgets he's shark food. - Gary Larson

12. If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst. - Joan Crawford

There are, of course, thousands more, but my brain hurts and I can't remember who said what right now...........



I feel like I should expand the #3 quote here - The final line just doesn't do the story justice, and it's one of my favorite old stories - and it has good imagery, so I cheated and copied the whole thing - here it is:

while sitting on the banks of the p'u river, chuang-tse was approached by two representatives of the prince of ch'u, who offered him a position at court. chuang-tse watched the water flowing by as though he had not heard. finally, he remarked, "i am told that the prince has a sacred tortoise, over two thousand years old, which is kept in a box, wrapped in silk and brocade."

"that is true," the officials replied.

"if the tortoise had been given a choice," chuang-tse continued, "which do you think he would have liked better -- to have been alive in the mud, or dead within the palace?"

"to have been alive in the mud, of course," the men answered.

"i too prefer the mud," said chuang-tse

Groverat