| 17 March, 2009 |
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What a time! What a civilization! Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is! How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand. It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are. There is no glory in otustripping donkeys. The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum. There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. A man with his belly full of the classics is an enemy of the human race. (Of Jesus): A parish demogogue. He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool. Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties. A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce. When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion. On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime. Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines. Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. A ship in harbor is safe--- but that is not what ships are for. The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species. We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards. It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it is one damn thing over and over. Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Men and women, women and men. It will never work. Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to. Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say. The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire. What we choose to call sanity is a big house where the mad have no mothers. It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. J.P Morgan, when asked what the stock market will do, replied, As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead. Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man. Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? |
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