I would love to dance with you, but my hands are on fire.

Taken from the comments section of the Grauny:

'Politicians are like nappies. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reason.'

 Manbird wrote: 
"A parakeet pecked out my sweet sweet eye jelly!"
 
~ Jose Feliznavidad

"Hey! Whatsa matta you face?"

– Anonymousetto

"For the record, as far as I could tell, aliens have never contacted Earth, or at least they haven't contacted US intelligence"

Edward Snowden

“Most people do not really
want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people
are frightened of responsibility.”
-Sigmund Freud

Even more important than being kind, be respectful.

British Columbian First Nations spend some time talking about 'respect'.   With good reason.  

 sirdroseph wrote:
 

‘It’s important to be kind. You can’t know all the times that you’ve hurt people in tiny, significant ways. It’s easy to be cruel without meaning to be. There’s nothing you can do about that. But you can choose to be kind. Be kind,’”     Some lady in a bookstore somewhere

"Music is the only Religion that delivers."  



Frank Zappa

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Goethe

A thorough evaluation of your culpability should always precede any expression of self pity.

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.  

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. 

Elegance is inferior to virtue.  

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. 

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Lewis Carroll

I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them, but they were only satellites
it’s wrong to wish on space hardware.
– Billy Bragg

 buzz wrote:
 

Dr. Arnold Mayer: We scientists should get out of the lab more often; we might learn something!

 oldviolin wrote: 
More synchronicity!