Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.
[Benny Hill]
Category Archives: quotes
Quote: Mistakes
Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.
[Source unknown]
Reality
I’ve no idea now where I found this, but it struck a chord:
Reality is what we take to be true.
What we take to be true is what we believe.
What we believe is based upon our perceptions.
What welook forperceive depends on what we think.
What we think determines what we take to be true.
What we take to be true is our reality.
So everything is in the mind.
Osho on Nudity
[…] man has created his own artificial world around him. Animals are naked – that’s why we don’t want to be nude. And if somebody is nude suddenly he hits our civilization totally, he cuts the very roots. That’s why there is so much antagonism against naked people, all over the world.
If you go and move naked in the street, you are not hurting anybody, you are not doing any violence to anybody; you are absolutely innocent. But immediately the police will come, the whole surroundings will become agitated. You will be caught […] and put into jail. But you have not done anything at all! A crime happens when you do something. You have not been doing anything, simply walking naked! But why does the society get so angry? The society is not so angry even against a murderer. This is strange. But a naked man, and society is absolutely angry.
It is because murder is still human. No animal murders. They kill for eating […] So it is human, the society can accept it. But nudity the society cannot accept, because suddenly the naked man makes you aware that you are all animals. Howsoever hidden behind clothes, the animal is there, the nude, the naked animal is there, the naked ape is there.
You are against the nude man not because he is nude but because he makes you aware of your nudity.
[Osho, Sex Matters, p125]
Quote: Fantasy
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope … and that enables you to laugh at all of life’s realities.
[Theodor S Geisel (Dr Seuss)]
Chemistry is …
I moved to London in 1973 to study Chemistry at University College, London. Here, if nothing else, I learnt that at degree level, Chemistry is Physics, Physics is Maths and Maths is impossible.
[Martin Dixon, Chairman of Subterranea Britannica]
I can tell Martin that it doesn’t change at post-grad level either! Except possibly to add that Maths is Computing.
Quote of the Day
Today’s Quotation of the Day:
It seems that the Republican Party in the United States has made an audacious bid to retain power by running Mr Burns and Marge Simpson as candidates for president and vice-president.
[John Doyle, TV critic, in his 2 September 2008 column]
Well it cracked me up, anyway.
Zen Mischievous Moments #144
Yesterday we were briefly in Rochester and stopped to have afternoon tea (well, tea and cake, not the full works with cucumber sandwiches, scones and jam, vicars, etc.) in the cathedral tea shop. I ordered a coffee for Noreen and a large pot of tea for me only to be told:
I can’t do you a large pot of tea, but I can do you a pot of tea for two.
Duh?!
Zen Mischievous Moments #145
Misty over at Momentary lapses of insanity has come up with some absolute gems of proofreading errors, all of which are perfectly OK according to Microdaft’s spellchecker. Her list includes these classics:
Mrs X lived in a charming country cottage, almost completely covered in hysteria.
Paul was overjoyed at the opportunity to be reunited with his long lost brothel.
Her train of thought was cuddled to say the least.
A large croup had gathered by the monument.
They managed to get themselves the lead prat in the play.
Alice somehow managed to get her knickers in a twit.
The farmer won the prize with his fine new bollocks.
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Another Quote
Another wonderful quote from a correspondent just now on the BBC News Channel, vis-á-vis some political tribulation or other:
[The Labour Party] conference will be an extremely febrile week.