Posts from the ‘Humor’ Category
Jun 19
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Had the dons been awake,
Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.
Jun 14
“Why should poetry have to make sense?” —Charlie Chaplin
Mad lover’s poems
compress a rosy garden
in compost and rain
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
―William Shakespeare
Jun 11
“Quantum particles: the dreams that stuff is made of.” —Anon
Maybe life is a long lost friend
The love you live to meet again
Maybe it’s real or just pretend
Maybe it has no separate ends
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
―Albert Einstein
“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”—Drew Carey
Head of human resources
Weaned in a square barred playpen
Bred for the egg-crate rat race
Gleaned the art of sneering then
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
―Robert Frost
“Our world isn’t made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language..” —Tom Robbins
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The rising and setting of the sun: a metaphor of a day on a spinning ball of words in a universe of verse.
Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
—Octavio Paz
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” —Ernest Hemingway
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
―Mark Twain
All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.
―Ernest Hemingway
“They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.” —Charlie Parker
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Hear the cosmic gas sighing
Dark chords bleeding together
Primal rhythms replying
Deep-down blues grieve forever
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
―Lao-Tzu
“If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things.” —Confucius
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In 1920s Charleston, South Carolina,
a scion of its fading aristocracy,
DuBose Heyward, sparks the
Southern Renaissance of novelists,
with the first realistic portrait of
flesh-and-blood Americans of color.
The love’s story’s title is the name
of the principal character, Porgy.
People’s fates are simplified by their names.
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“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” —Carl Sagan
We played and stomped the ground on the range we once roamed
Squeezing music in and out made a wheezy moan
Breezes teasing reedy grasses, weaving a tune
Down-to-earth as cow pies on a June afternoon
Work and pray, live on hay, you’ll get pie in the sky when you die.
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“The future ain’t what it used to be.” —Yogi Berra
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