Words of advice for young & old.
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- Mimio
Let's entertain each other with proverbs, sayings and words of wisdom. If things go well, I'll incorporate them into a design.
- Mimio0
I'll start...
"That which is given in submission becomes a medium of defiance"
- Mimio0
or...
"A Man with his hand his in pocket feels cocky all day"
- ganon0
May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
- Mimio0
Good one.
- thosethat0
William Burroughs:
"People often ask me if I have any words of advice for young people.
Well here are a few simple admonitions for young and old.
Never intefere in a boy-and-girl fight.
Beware of whores who say they don't want money.
The hell they don't.
What they mean is they want more money. Much more.
If you're doing business with a religious son-of-a-bitch,
Get it in writing.
His word isn't worth shit.
Not with the good lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.
Avoid fuck-ups.
We all know the type.
Anything they have anything to do with,
No matter how good it sounds,
Turns into a disaster.
Do not offer sympathy to the mentally ill.
Tell them firmly:
I am not paid to listen to this drivel.
You are a terminal boob.
Now some of you may encounter the Devil's Bargain,
If you get that far.
Any old soul is worth saving,
At least to a priest,
But not every soul is worth buying.
So you can take the offer as a compliment.
He tries the easy ones first.
You know like money,
All the money there is.
But who wants to be the richest guy in some cemetary?
Money won't buy.
Not much left to spend it on, eh gramps?
Getting too old to cut the mustard.
Well time hits the hardest blows.
Especially below the belt.
How's a young body grab you?
Like three card monte, like pea under the shell,
Now you see it, now you don't.
Haven't you forgotten something, gramps?
In order to feel something,
You've got to be there.
You have to be eighteen.
You're not eighteen.
You are seventy-eight.
Old fool sold his soul for a strap-on.
Well they always try the easiest ones first.
How about an honorable bargain?
You always wanted to be a doctor,
Well now's your chance.
Why don't you become a great healer
And benefit humanity?
What's wrong with that?
Just about everything.
Just about everything.
There are no honorable bargains
Involving exchange
Of qualitative merchandise
Like souls
For quantitative merchandise
Like time and money.
So piss off Satan
And don't take me for dumber than I look.
An old junk pusher told me -
Watch whose money you pick up."
- Mimio0
Good of you to notice the Uncle Bill was running in my veins. That piece cracks me up every time.
- dave_bxcr0
travel is fatal for prejudice
- GreedoLives0
"Man who goes to bed with itchy butt wakes up with smelly finger."
i live by that.
- silencer0
A cock in the bush is worth two in the hand.
- Nematoth0
an old scottish one..
better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one
- JazX0
Don't place all of your eggs in one basket.
Never trust anyone.
- sauceruney0
"Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point: every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough; the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions? Let us examine the question."
-- Aleister Crowley
- Soler0
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world"
Mahatma Gandhi
- BonSeff0
never play leapfrog with a unicorn
- exador10
always thought this song by bob mould had a few things in it that sounded like words of wisdom...or atleast wisdom we once had....
Found a book of interest the other day
Compositions for the young and old to sing
Poems written many years ago
They told of family and hope and other things
Put together in the old days
When fifteen cents, it was a buck
That's when five would get you ten
Before it took you eight just to get you one
Some people, they don't care when they're down on their luckCheap thrills are awful hard to find these days
No one is amused for free
Someone's pulling on your mama's apron strings
You'd better run and see who it isPlaying cards with your neighbors on the back porch
Singing with an old beat-up guitar
Going to the local swimming hole
Until they closed it down, now there's nowhere to goThings used to be so simple, long time ago
Now everything is so expensive and complicated
I hear you need a license for just about anythingUsed to be that a handshake was a man's word
Now we settle arguments in court
No one trusts anyone's intentions anymoreRummaging through the attic when I'm home
It brings back those memories to me
I'd amuse myself when I was small
When I was younger, the simplest things would do
Now I'm on everybody's mailing list
For things I can't afford to buy
I hear the weatherman
He says "It looks like rain for a while"
I guess I'll have to stay inside
Make peanut butter sandwiches and cry
- Kuz0
Wherever a young brave goes, he will always be at the centre of the universe
- North American (Mohican?) proverb
- blueless0
"luck is the residue of good design"
-- some old baseball coach I forgot his name
- brandelec0
there's no crying in baseball
- dSynthesis0
Ignorance (innocence) lost can never be regained.