Smart Stuff

Even workhorses have their aristocracy.
English Proverb
Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.
Stanislaw Lec

In the spaces between my dreams, I sometimes find a strange substance called
reality.
Ashliegh Brilliant
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a
spirit.
G. K. Chesterton
Humankind
Cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. Eliot
All our separate fictions add up to joint reality.
Stanislaw Lec
If you prefer illusions to reality, it is only […]

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.
Henry Adams
Only reason can convince us of these three fundamental truths without a
recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is
not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all
questions are open.
(Arthur) Clive BELL
The man who is […]

Who draws his sword against the prince must throw away the scabbard.
English Proverb

There’s nothing like a business recession to make your old clothes look like
new. Anon
If the price of duck feathers is raised, it means that down is up.
Jacob M. Braude
Can anyone remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In times like these it helps to recall that there have always […]

Religions change; beer and wine remain.
Hervey Allen
Don’t judge the quality of the gasoline by the filling station attendant.
Anon
heard at General Convention
of the Episcopal Church
It’s good to have two priests on the parish staff; then everybody doesn’t have
to hate the same person. Anon
heard at General Convention
of the Episcopal Church
It is often pleasant to stone […]

Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many
disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.
Sigmund Freud

Reputation is commonly measured by the acre.
Thomas Fuller
Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard
I have always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my
face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
Bertrand Russel

These days when you eat out at a fancy restaurant, you need an after dinner mint
- like the one in Denver. Anon
We were taken to a fast-food cafe where our order was fed into a computer. Our
hamburgers, made from the flesh of chemically impregnated cattle, had been broiled over counterfeit charcoal, placed between slices of […]

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster that gratitude.
Charles Caleb Colton
Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen.
Emile Gaboriau