Archive for the ‘leonardo da vinci’ Tag
Today I’d like to talk about marriage. It always seems like a topic that everyone has an opinion on and so do I. As far as I can see there are no real experts on marriage. If there were they couldn’t possibly explain why a little more than fifty percent of all marriages fail miserably. I have the right to speak on this subject because I’ve been married twice and divorced twice. I married for sex initially (bad move) and then married for love (or so I thought), (another bad move). Do I have solutions for this trend – I do not. As best I can determine getting married is much like going to Las Vegas and losing everything you own and then complaining about Las Vegas for ruining your life. I’m currently unmarried and my better-half and I have been together for almost thirty years. That just tells me when it’s the right person, life can be good.
Todays post will cite a number of well known celebs on their thoughts on marriage. This should convince you that they have no clue either. Here we go . . .
- “Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.” Oscar Wilde
- “The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.” S.T. Coleridge
- “Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.” George Bernard Shaw
- “If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.” Johnny Carson
- “If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry.” Anton Chekhov
- “Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.” Phyllis Diller
- “I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.” Groucho Marx
- “I don’t worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.” Sam Kenison
- “It’s true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, “Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then”. Lyle Lovett – after marrying Julia Roberts
- “Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.” Leonardo da Vinci
My Fav
“Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, then you lose interest.” Irwin Corey
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I DID IT ONCE, THEN I DID IT AGAIN, SHAME ON ME
Are you loving this GD cold weather and snow as much as I am. Trapped in my house patiently waiting for the oil delivery to arrive so I can shell out 400 more dollars to keep my water lines from freezing. Even my man-cave is suffering. No matter what I do it remains quite chilly and making typing this post a real chore. Here is a little sample of obscure Art related mish/mosh and now I can return upstairs to the warm rooms. Enjoy . . . .
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- Before he became an artist Vincent van Gogh worked as an evangelist in Belgium.
- American Gothic, the famous painting of a couple with a pitchfork, was done by Grant Wood in 1930. The couple that posed for the painting were his dentist and his sister.
- The actual name of the famous painter El Greco was Domenikos Theotokopoulos.
- Painter Paul Gauguin was once a stockbroker.
- American painter Norman Rockwell became the art director of Boy’s Life magazine while he was still a teenager.
- The National Gallery of Art opened in Washington DC on March 17, 1941.
- Charles M. Shultz’s comic strip Peanuts debuted in October, 1950.
- The deep red sunset seen in Norwegian Edward Munch’s The Scream is believed to reflect the intense sunsets seen throughout the world following the eruption of the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa.
- Leonardo Da Vinci’s fresco, The Last Supper, is located in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.
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WHEN IN DOUBT, KISS AN ARTIST
These are 10 items that are truly miscellaneous. As I gather all of my trivia together there are always a few things that can’t be categorized, and I thought I’d share some of them with you today. Here they are . . .
- Charles E Weller is best known for a single sentence he created, “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.” It was invented for use as a typing exercise.
- The original name of the Girl Scouts was the “Girl Guides’.
- Robert L. Ripley was the first person inducted into the National Trivia Hall of Fame in 1980.
- Did you know that the only two letters that are not on a telephone are the Q & Z.
- The initials M. G. On the famous British automobile stand for the Morris Garage.
- It was in 153 B.C. the Romans first marked January 1st as the beginning of the new year.
- How many of you know that the group motto for the Salvation Army is “Blood & Fire”?
- The middle day of a non-leap year year is July 2nd. There’s 182 days before it, and 182 after it.
- Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Gen. George Patton were dyslexic?
- In 1871 the rickshaw was invented by American Baptist missionary Jonathan Goble. He had a Japanese carpenter build the original rickshaw for his invalid wife in Yokohama.
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