Smart Stuff

Dancing is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
Anon
The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.
Robert Helpmann
dancer and choreographer
May I have the pleasure of the next sadly outdated courting ritual?
Michael Leunig
cartoon, 1981
He makes you feel more danced against than with.
Sally Poplin
When he dances he’s all […]

Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
ARAB Proverb
Better encounter a danger than live in continual fear.
William H. Brown
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
English Proverb
SEAGOON: He’s been buried alive under a thousand […]

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with
an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Woody […]

Lend me $1,000 and I’ll always be indebted to you.
Anon
There are more ways of getting into debt than there are of paying it off.
Anon
A man properly must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole
symphony orchestra had to be subsidized.
John Barrymore
If it isn’t the sheriff, it’s the finance company. I’ve got […]

A clean glove often hides a dirty hand.
English Proverb

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision is a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
Gordon Graham
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but
indecision.
William James
A decision is what a man makes when he can’t get anyone to serve on […]

Acquaintance - Someone we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to. Unknown
Adolescence - When a boy stops collecting stamps and starts playing post office.
Unknown
Adultery - A good many adults. Unknown
Archery - A collection of arches. Unknown
Artificial Insemination - Copulation without representation. Unknown
Atrophy - An award given to those […]

Monarchy is like a splendid ship, with all sails set; it moves majestically on,
then it hits a rock and sinks forever. Democracy is like a raft. It never sinks,
but, damn it, your feet are always in the water.
Fisher Ames
Democracy means government by discussion but it is only effective if you can
stop people talking.
Clement Earl Atlee
Democracy […]

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing
where one is almost happy.
Jean Anouilh
There’s something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see its a
grandiose form of funk.
Elizabeth Bown
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck
When water covers the […]

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the
tigers are getting hungry.
Winston Churchill