Thursday, May 8, 2014

Taproom Thoughts - May 2014


Carl Jung (psychologist, Swiss, 1875-1961) ... Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.


Henry David Thoreau (writer, American, 1817-1862) ... It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.


Charles Bukowski (writer, American, 1920-1994) ... To do a dull thing with style - now that's what I call art.


Aldous Huxley (writer, English, 1894-1963) ... Maybe this world is another planet's hell.


Dante (poet, Italian, 1265-1321) ... He listen wells who takes notes.


Dr. Seuss (children's author & illustrator, American, 1904-1991) ... Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Abraham Lincoln (President, American, 1809-1865) ... Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.


Noam Chomsky (activist, American, 1928-now) ... You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.


Bertrand Russell (philosopher, English, 1872-1970) ... The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.


Helen Hayes (actress, American, 1900-1993) ...The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.


Lenonardo da Vinci (artist, Italian, 1452-1519) ... Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.


Mark Twain (author, American, 1835-1910) ... Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.


Henry David Thoreau (author, 'Walden', American, 1817-1862) ... The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.


Timothy Leary (psychedelic pioneer, American, 1920-1996, Marshall McLuhan coined this mantra for him) ... Turn on, tune in, drop out.


Julia Child ('The French Chef', American, 1912-2004) ... Don't be afraid of your food!

George W. Curtis (writer, American, 1824-1892) ... It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

Oliver Goldsmith (novelist, playwright & poet, Irish, 1730-1774) ... If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Honore de Balzac (novelist, French, 1799-1850) ... A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Leo Tolstoy (novelist, Russian, 1828-1910) ... When a writer is born into a family, that family is finished.

Herman Melville (novelist, 'Moby Dick', American, 1819-1891) ... There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

Joseph Addison (writer, English, 1672-1719) ... Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Samuel Butler (novelist, 'Erewhon', 'The Way of All Flesh', English, 1835-1902) ... Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Erasmus (philosopher, Dutch, 1466-1536) ... He does not sail badly who steers a middle course.

James M. Barrie (writer, 'Peter Pan', Scottish, 1860-1937) ... It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Thomas Jefferson (American, President, author, inventor, 1743-1826) ... Delay is preferable to error.

Abraham Lincoln (President, U.S., 1809-1865) ... Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Benjamin Franklin (patriot, inventor, author, American, 1706-1790) ... Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Mahatma Gandhi (Father of the Indian Nation, 1869-1948) ... Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

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