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Unquotable Quotes - Viii

Unquotable quotes – VIII The stray dog is always in search of a god. A tiger leaves behind its stripes ; men their gripes. A lame duck is a man without luck, and a luckless man quacks like a duck. When friends and relatives depart, it’s time to make a fresh start. A sick mind in a sound body is the worst form of agony for the enemy. Too lazy to want to live, yet too unwilling to want to die : best be eternally sick. Empty vessels make the most ground on water. If you walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, you’re likely to end up with athlete’s foot. A samurai’s sword writes only in red ink. Wild ideas fester in the coils of a turban : some lose their way in the labyrinth, others die inglorious deaths in the squiggly enmeshed strands. Wars are waged by nations in order to reduce the size of the populations during times of prosperity when men and women - young and old – concentrate their best efforts in the art and practice of reproduction at the expense of production for the care and protection of their children who are the haphazard products of their carelessness. God uses men to wage wars against one another in order to save Himself the bother of having to propagate Himself. Men use gods to wage wars in Their names in order to enhance the status of their own gods. © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2016

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