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01/30/2024 “POISON PENS”   1 comment

If you’ve read this blog at all you know I consistently use famous quotations from famous people to help make a point. Over the years having all of those quotes available has made my life much easier. Not all quotes are complementary, and I found almost as many nasty and mean quotes as good ones. Here are some quotes that some people probably wish they hadn’t made. You be the judge…

“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.” Bill Vaughn

“You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete the monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gates of Hell: “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.” George Bernard Shaw

“St. Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays.” Coco Chanel

“Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don’t they try to understand the singing of the birds? People love the night, a flower, everything which surrounds them without trying to understand. But painting – that they must understand.” Pablo Picasso

“There are moments when art attains almost the dignity of manual labor.” Oscar Wilde

This next section concerns a prolific contributor to every subject imaginable: Anonymous. I truly enjoy these mean and nasty unidentified criticizers.

“Critics are the stupid who discuss the wise.”

“An architect is two percent gentleman and ninety-eight percent renegade car salesman.”

“The Eiffel Tower in Paris is the Empire State Building after taxes.”

“A modern artist is one who throws paint on a canvas, wipes it off with a cloth, and sells the cloth.”

“They couldn’t find the artist, so they hung the picture.”

“Poetry is living proof that rhyme doesn’t pay.”

“Dancing is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”

LIFE SUCKS AND THEN YOU DIE

(ANONYMOUS)


Posted January 30, 2024 by Every Useless Thing in Art, Bitch & Complain, Celebrities, Education, Entertainment, History, Humor, Just Saying, Kill Me, I'm Begging You, Looking Back, Poetry, Quotations, Sarcasm, Trivia

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06/20/2023 “Pearls of Wisdom”   1 comment

I like many other people collect quotations from both the living and the dead, famous or not so famous, and at times from the infamous. There are only a few holidays such as Father’s Day and Mother’s Day that strike a melancholy chord with me because for most of my early life, they were the main focus of my love and caring. After my recent posting for Father’s Day, I needed a little pick me up and that’s what these quotations do for me. When I find one that strikes a note with me, I write it down and save it for future use. Here are a few that I’ve saved for years, and I thought I’d share them with you. It’ll make me feel better and I’m sure they will make some of you feel better as well.

  • “Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” – Voltaire
  • “Wisdom isn’t taught; it’s not a science. Wisdom is a tattoo carved into the mind after a lifetime of failures and achievements.” – Jason Bacchetta
  • “The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.” – Emily P. Bissell
  • “Size isn’t everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.” – Bill Vaughan

  • “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
  • “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain
  • “There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.” – Mark Burnett

ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE

Posted June 19, 2023 by Every Useless Thing in Education, Entertainment, History, Just Saying, Looking Back, Love, Poetry, Quotations, Trivia, writing

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