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Unquotable Quotes - V

Unquotable quotes – V Constant dipping wears out the hardest bone. Out of sight, out of bind. Too many cooks spoil the school books. Be a cuckoo and lay your eggs at the cuckold’s next door. When lightning strikes, the fire-brigade rides. Don’t cry over spilt tears on a tilted table. Give a dope a long rope to escape prison and hang yourself. Till the cows come home lone and married. Do not teach a dog how not to bark. A shark’s « fin » is the end of the film. A rhinoceros’s horn makes the infidel a born again thorn. Early to bed, early to rise makes the wife stealthy, squelchy and clock-wise. A lawyer is a liar/Who rides a bicycle on a live wire/Smokes a salmon in her office oven/Slurps noodles with poor poodles/Makes fudges out of judges/Ends up selling divorced wives/On the internet stock archives. A two-timing two makes fools of fours on all fours. Go fly a kite when you’re tight out of sight. When the garden warbler trills on oblivious, the magpies ensemble grumble. Patients can undo all the good doctors do. Even cars can become chronically ill. Children need not be seen so long as the noise they make reminds us of them. Authority always provides cover for cruelty. The nation is always worthy of the most scurrilous crimes. Religious service serves only the ritual’s hollow promise. He serves God best who serves all creatures first. God cannot be in need of help. Nor does He need adulation. Is religion an attempt to bribe God ? © T. Wignesan –Paris, 2016

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Date: 2/5/2016 2:52:00 PM
Congrat.Deep thoughts we may borrow the wisdom of Ecclesiastus as well as the thinkers of the day and monks of good hope. Some lines remind me of Emil Cioran and Theodor Adorno.
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Date: 2/6/2016 5:18:00 PM
Back again, Ovidiu. It also occurred to me as an after-thought I might add that these epigrams are a take-off on other well-known short poems, sayings and expressions faites, such as, the limerick: "A lawyer is a liar/Who rides a bicycle without a tire/...", etc. "Out of sight, out of mind", etc. Satire, parody, witticism, all come into play here. Just a precision. Thanks. Wignesan
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T Wignesan
Date: 2/6/2016 10:40:00 AM
Hello Ovidiu! Thanks very much for your comments. I'm afraid I have no direct knowledge of the three references you make, though they do not remain unfamiliar to me in my reading sources. I checked the Ecclesiastes, and I'm placing it high on my reading list. Its structure intrigues me no end. Not to mention it's literary antecedents. Every good wish. Wignesan

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