Monday, June 15, 2009

Simply child



Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?
- Rosie Thomas

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
- Lao-Tzu

If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit. But whatever you do, don't wobble.
- Anonymous

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.
- Willard Gibbs

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
- Samuel Johnson

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
- Rita Mae Brown

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana

If you want to be found, stand where the seeker seeks.
- Sidney Lanier

Many things are lost for want of asking.
- English proverb

"Accident and coincident" should not exist in the dictionary.
- Anonymous

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs-to kill people and to destroy the works of man.
- Thomas S. Power

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.
- William Faulkner

Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.
- Sir Joshua Reynolds

1 comment:

cklim said...

nice quotes, esp the first two :-)