Things I've heard, things I've found...all worth repeating.

"His feet are the biggest things I've seen without lungs!"
*Reap the Wild Wind

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
*Unknown

"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland."
*Unknown

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought."
*Basho

"If you wish to drown yourself, do not torture yourself with shallow water."
*Bulgarian Proverb

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
*Shakespeare

"Another time I saw a child coming toward me holding a lighted torch in his hand. 'Where have you brought the light from?' I asked him. He immediately blew it out, and said to me, 'O Hasan, tell me where it is gone, and I will tell you whence I fetched it.'"
*Hasan Basri

"In walking, just walk. In sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble."
*Yun-Men

"I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough."
*Diogenes

"Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken. Although its light is wide and great, the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide. The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass."
*Dogen

"Imagination is more important than intelligence."
*Albert Einstein

"Don't take life too seriously. It's not like we're gonna get out of it alive."
*Unknown


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