Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp,To guard a title that was rich before,To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,To throw a perfume on the violet,To smooth the ice, or add another hueUnto the rainbow, or with taper lightTo seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
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Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
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If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up wild cataracts, dive in deep fjords. One must explore the labyrinth of the reef, the shadows of the lily pads. How limiting, how insulting to think of God as a benevolent warden, an absentee hatchery manager who imprisons us in the 'comfort' of artificial pools, where intermediaries sprinkle our restrictive waters with sanitized flakes of processed nutriment.
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If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
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A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.
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If you have only two pennies left in the world, with the first penny, you should buy rice to feed your family. With the second penny, say the wise Japanese, you should buy a lily. The Japanese understand the importance of dreaming...
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There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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His artistry soars to heights of sublime silliness and divine absurdity.
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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?
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The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?
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After all, in private we're all misfits.
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Certainly, Aaron wrote a real interesting character to begin with,
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
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The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
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No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
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It is not growing like a tree
in bulk doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere,
A lily of a day
is fairer in May
Although it fall and die that night,
It was the plant of flower and light,
In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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I went to the doctor the other day and he said I was a paranoid schizophrenic... Well, he didn't actually say it, but we know what he was thinking.
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Teflon brain (nothing sticks.)
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet
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We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.
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Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.
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The best mind-altering drug is truth.
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