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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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 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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No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
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If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
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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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After all, in private we're all misfits.
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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 formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?
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His artistry soars to heights of sublime silliness and divine absurdity.
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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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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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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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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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The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
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Certainly, Aaron wrote a real interesting character to begin with,
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Song of Solomon 2:1:
I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
(NIV)
[SHE SAID] I am only a little rose or autumn crocus of the plain of Sharon, or a [humble] lily of the valleys [that grows in deep and difficult places].
(AMP)
I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.
(KJV)
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I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. THE BELOVED.
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Teflon brain (nothing sticks.)
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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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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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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.
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