Reality Check

A bit beyond perception's reach
I sometimes believe I see
That life is two locked boxes,
Each containing the other's key.
- Piet Hein

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It's a tough old world. - Stephen King

Life is a tough job, and the hours are a bitch. - Billy Crystal

Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies. - Adrienne E. Gusoff

Life is hard if you think it's hard. - (The Chink) Tom Robbins

Life is much too important to be taken seriously.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. - Lotus Weinstock

Life is mostly attitude and timing. - Jerry Jeff Walker

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

In the long run, we're all dead. - John Maynard

In a bad situation it is normal to feel bad.

I'm not young enough to know it all. - Grizzly Gibbs

Magic things are fond of deceptions. - Tom Robbins

All advice is bad, and good advice is fatal. - Oscar Wilde

No good deed goes unpunished. - Clare Booth Luce

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful about what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves. - Stephen King

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect, has intended us to forgo their use. -Galileo Gallilei

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. - Peter DeVries

Faith is believing in something you know isn't true. - Tom Robbins

Nothing indicts like denial. - P.J. O'Rourke

A wise man gets more out of his enemies than a fool gets out of his friends. -Baltasar Gracian

We most often regret what we didn't do, not what we did.

It's what you do, not what you could do.
It's not what you do, but how well you do it.

Murphy's Law
Nothing is easy as it looks.
Everything takes longer than you expect.
And, if anything can go wrong -- it will,
At the worst possible moment.

Murphy was an optimist.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken home, I begin to think of the victims of the intact ones.- Peter DeVries

All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration.
We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively.
There is no such thing as death. Life is only a dream.
And we are the imagination of ourselves.
- Bill Hicks

When I'm good, nobody remembers. When I'm bad, nobody forgets.

The First Law of Reality: The more you deny reality,
the more it will work against you. - td

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. - Lily Tomlin

Reality has no basis in fact. - Credibility Gap/Firesign Theater?

Reality is relative. - td

What Went Wrong?

This is the story of four people: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Somebody would do it, but Nobody asked Anybody. It ended up that the job wasn't done, and Everybody blamed Somebody when actually Nobody asked Anybody. - from Ann Landers


If it's not on the page, it's not on the stage.

Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement. - Barry LePatner

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants,
and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde

The universe is not indifferent to intelligence. It is actively hostile to it.

Things are more like they are now
than they ever were before. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

It gives you a sense of deja vu all over again. - Yogi Berra

As our experience teaches us the reliability of our own point of view, we begin to entertain the dangerous suspicion that those people out there may not know what they're talking about. - Hugh Prather

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge,
argument is an exchange of ignorance. - Robert Quillan

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. - Derek Bok

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. - Goethe

Ignorance can be cured. Stupidity is for life.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form o' self-indulgence.
- Dr. Wiggs Dannyboy (Tom Robbins)

It is a supreme form of arrogance to assume
someone else's problems are entirely your fault. - Marcus Welby

Nothing happens in the past.

What was, was.
What is, is.
What ain't, ain't
.

The time to be happy is now.
The place to be happy is here. - Robert Ingersole

The purpose of time is to keep everything from happening at once ...
it's not working.

You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime. - G. Gordon Liddy

The key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Whenever the left and the right agree wholeheartedly about any issue, the strong likelihood is that an amazing disaster is about to be jointly sponsored. - John Leo

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche

If everybody's thinking alike, then nobody's thinking. - Gen. George Patton or Douglas MacArthur[?]

Anybody who isn't schizophrenic these days isn't thinking clearly.

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy. - Janet Long

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, you got a duck. - Dan Rather/Sen. Joseph McCarthy[?]

Never trust a reporter who claims to be objective. - Lynn Sherr, reporter

Only wild turkeys can fly. - fact

A really good religion is a form of treason. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. - Thomas Paine

The only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.

It is not until you ask an impertinent question of nature that you get a pertinent answer. - Jacob Bronowski

The more I practice, the luckier I get. - Chi Chi Rodriguez

There is no gravity. The earth sucks.


T
o every thing there is a season,
And a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate;
A time of war, and a time of peace.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Everything you know is wrong.


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Last update: 11/27/98