Archive for the ‘Funny’ Category.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
~~ C.S. Lewis ~~ (1898 - 1963)
That’s exactly true! Whether we sit, sleep, whine, grumble or do something useful, we keep reaching the future at the rate of 60 minutes an hour until we take our last breath, then the time stops and that precisely is moment when one’s future comes to a complete halt permanently! LOL
So if you were waiting for your future, don’t - the future is now and it is passing you by at the rate of 60 minutes an hour.
To marry a second time represents the triumph of hope over experience.
~~ Samuel Johnson ~~
Funny and true as well. However, some people are getting smart - they don’t marry even once! And if they do decide to marry, they draw up a prenuptial agreement to mitigate their losses when the hammer falls. :-)
But those who marry a second time or more, obviously belong to that class of people who refuse to learn anything from their experience. Or may be they are incorrigible optimists and keep marrying again and again hoping against hope that this time things will get better.
How did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world?
~~ Oliver Stone ~~
Oliver Stone is making a movie to attempt to answer the above question.
I don’t think it’s that difficult to figure this out. Here are the main reasons:
- Possession of tons of money. Money is by far the best ‘friend’ anybody could have to achieve anything in this world. It’s the root without which a tree can not grow. In this case it’s not a tree but a bush! LOL
- Powerful connections. If you got the dough, establishing powerful connections is a cinch. In Bush’s case it was even easier because his father was an ex-president. Not surprisingly, many people in his administration were the same who held positions in his father’s administration as well! Sort of all in the family affair. :-)
- Very friendly judiciary with right wingers in majority, mostly appointed by his father!
- Voter apathy. A lot of voters think, and rightly so, that one politician is just as bad as the other, and don’t bother to go out and vote.
With all these factors in his favor, it is not a surprise that this alcoholic bum went on to become the most powerful figure in the world. Politics is, indeed, a funny business!
It’s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
~~ Marilyn Monroe ~~ (1926 - 1962)
Good answer by Marilyn to her detractors! They were obviously being untruthful in accusing that she had nothing on while she had the radio on! LOL
I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
~~ Morris Udall ~~ (1922-1998)
Also, on a cactus the pricks are not only on the outside, they make no effort to hide the fact that they are, indeed, pricks. But in a caucus, the pricks are not only inside, they hide the fact really well that they are pricks!
And many of these pricks go on to attain powerful positions in government, further messing up the already messed up world. It’s their relentless pursuit for money and power that makes them behave the way they do and they get away with a lot. Only a few of them get incarcerated if and when they are caught grossly crossing the line and doing something outright illegal such as taking kickbacks etc. So they don’t have much of an incentive to change their prickly behavior inside or outside of a caucus.
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
~~ William Shakespeare ~~ (1564 - 1616)
Shakespeare has mentioned three ways of becoming great but there are actually four ways of achieving greatness:
- You can be born great. For example, you could have been born in some sort of monarchy or royalty. If you didn’t get that, don’t worry. You didn’t have a choice in the matter, did you? LOL
- You can achieve greatness - if you really want it. This one is admittedly the toughest route to follow and requires a lot of hard work, intelligence, cleverness, leadership qualities and all that jazz. Do you really want to put yourself through that grind? I didn’t think so!
- You can have greatness thrust upon you. That can happen if the lady luck smiles upon you and you manage to capture a high office. For example, the current US president George Bush - some still refer to him as a ‘great’ president. LOL
- Another way to achieve greatness; which Shakespeare failed to mention, probably because it wasn’t available in his times; is to buy greatness! Hire a BIG PR firm and soon everybody will ‘know’ that you are indeed a great soul! :-)
What if you can’t employ any of the above methods to become ‘great’? Don’t be afraid; greatness doesn’t really matter! So forget about it and continue living your life. LOL
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
~~ Bertrand Russell ~~ (1872 - 1970)
Most of us take our work too seriously. That is a paradox considering that most of us don’t like our jobs; many surveys show that only about 2% of us are making our living by doing what we really like to do.
Don’t take your work too seriously. Work is a means for living, not the living itself. You might think that your work is extremely important and only you can do it well but you are sadly mistaken. Nobody is irreplaceable. What if you die right now? Will the world come to a halt? Absolutely not. The world didn’t come to a halt even when those who labeled themselves as ‘Great’ passed away.
When you are not around, there will be many others willing and able to fill your shoes and may be do even better than you! So relax, avoid nervous breakdown and premature death. LOL.
The wheel of time keeps on turning; with or without you!
When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life. Now that I am old, I know it is.
~~ Oscar Wilde ~~ (1854 - 1900)
Young or old, everybody must learn quickly that money is the most important thing in life; nay, money is life! LOL
So now that you have been made aware as to how important the money is, from now on you should only dream of money and more money! And I mean gather lots of money like being a multi-billionaire - don’t even think of being a millionaire because millionaires now-a-days are dime a dozen. :-)
Money will help you a lot in attaining power and prestige. However, don’t delude yourself that if you gather a lot of money you’ll have a happy life or even a satisfied life because money is not capable of buying that. Heck, the money can’t even buy you love but it does give you the option of doing stupid things, if you are so inclined, such as the hiring of a high priced call girl just like the former governor of New York, Mr. Eliot Spitzer did! LOL
Now if you were a mere mortal, like most of us, struggling to pay your bills; you wouldn’t even dream of paying, in cash, in the neighborhood of $4500 per hour for tryst with a call girl, would you? But when you have tons of dough then…
To be fair to Mr. Spitzer, he is not the only one indulging in such an exciting activity; a lot of folks with tons of dough and the power that goes along with it, do the same and enjoy life! After all, he was just a client number 9. :-)
I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
~~ Bette Davis ~~ (1908 - 1989)
Ha, Ha, Ha. Honesty is the best policy! Bette expressed her wishes without being diplomatic. It also gives a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘Love at First Sight.’ :-)
It might have been difficult in Bette Davis’ times to find somebody with 15 million dollars but that is not a problem any more. There are lots of men around with tons of money and not much brain or may be they lose their brains once they accumulate such huge sums of money like the governor who allegedly was paying $5500 per hour (yes, you read it right - it’s five thousand five hundred dollars per hour) for a call girl! So if a lady were to be interested in such an enterprise, she wouldn’t have to look very hard before she finds a man with the dough and who will be quite happy to part with his money as well. The only problem that I see is how one will ensure the dude is actually dead within a year! LOL
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
~~ Albert Einstein ~~ (1879-1955)
So Einstein felt the same way we all feel from time to time. :-)
I don’t know why Einstein couldn’t figure out the answer to such a simple question. I figured it out a long time ago that everybody except me is crazy! LOL
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
~~ Thomas Carlyle ~~ (1795 – 1881)
So we are all rascals? Definitely! LOL
Since time immemorial, humans have been trying to impress upon other humans to be honest, truthful and upright but without any success. The one reason why it happens is that those who ask others to follow such ideals themselves fail to follow such ideals. Examples being parents teaching children to be honest and truthful, preachers preaching honesty and integrity, people in positions of power asking others to selflessly work for the organization or the country but themselves not doing the same. It’s like ‘do as I say, not as I do.’ Not going to happen. And we have even come up with fancy names like referring to lies as ‘extending the truth.’ Either it’s the truth or it’s not; what does extending the truth mean?
The second reason is that we soon discover in everyday life that honesty and truthfulness doesn’t pay. We all indulge in dishonesty and tell lies whenever it suits our purpose. It’s just that some of us have become very adept at this ‘art’. :-) And those who become experts in this art reap handsome rewards which becomes an incentive for the rest of us to learn the ropes. LOL
So, yes, ideally you can become honest and reduce the number of rascals in the world by one but it’s not a very practical or profitable proposition.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
~~ Oscar Wilde ~~ (1854 - 1900)
Ha ha ha. I think in that case most of us don’t suffer from the lack of imagination! Considering that a lot of us live from hand to mouth, we seem to possess way more imagination than we can handle!
Kidding aside, it’s prudent to live within one’s means; it has nothing to do with one’s imagination or lack thereof. Living beyond one’s means spells nothing but trouble. It involves incurring debt usually on credit cards which charge ridiculously high interest rates. And once one gets trapped in that vicious cycle of debt, it becomes extremely difficult, if not impossible, to get out of that cycle.
Imagination does not necessarily involve spending money, many people use their imagination to make money! Imagination is the ability to think forward, to conceive what doesn’t exist and make efforts to turn it into reality.
The voters have spoken - the bastards!
~~ Morris Udall ~~ (1922-1998)
LOL. A good one that describes the true feelings of politicians when voters don’t vote for them and they lose the election. Though most of them may feel that way, they usually refrain from saying so publicly. On the other hand, those politicians who get elected describe the voters as ’smart and intelligent’ even though inside they may still feel that the voters were quite gullible in voting for them!
Even though I am not very fond of politicians, I try not to be unusually cynical about them. As in any profession, there are committed politicians who are genuinely interested in improving the lot of common people. Like any other game, politics has its own rules and regulations by which the politicians must play. Since it’s a politician’s job to convince people that he or she has got what it takes to make their country and the world a better place, many of them tend to go overboard when making promises.
Their unflattering thoughts about voters when defeated are not so unusual. Just like an employee would use colorful language to describe his or her employer when the employee is ‘let go’ (fired) by an employer, so do the politicians when ‘let go’ by the voters. It shows they are just humans like everybody else.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~~ Nikita Khrushchev ~~ (1894 - 1971)
That’s quite a generalization but nonetheless true in the case of most politicians if not all the politicians. Politicians all over make ridiculous promises which they can not deliver.
The question is: Why do politicians make promises they know or ought to know, they can’t keep? I think there are two primary reasons for it:
- Democratic form of government, though far more superior than any other form of government mankind has known or experienced so far, is still plagued with a lot of imperfections. Many a times the people (voters) do not have much of a choice in electing their government; they just have to choose between the devil and the deep sea. This situation discourages people from participating in the election of their government as evidenced by dwindling turnout at the polls.
- The people in democracies themselves have to share some of the blame for their politicians making unrealistic or totally ridiculous promises like ‘the promise to build a bridge where there is no river.’ :-) We, the people as voters, vote mostly for those politicians who promise us the rose garden! Most politicians, being humans like the rest of us, soon realize that to ‘win’ they must learn the art of ‘extending the truth’ and convincingly deliver unrealistic promises. Those politicians who fail to master this ‘art’ or whose conscience won’t allow them to play this ‘game’ soon drop out of the game or are sidelined. And we end up with the type of politicians we have today.
Blaming the politicians or ridiculing them won’t solve the problem. We all need to think as to how to improve the system of electing our governments and work towards improving it.
Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.
~~ Kathleen Quinlan ~~
Well, it’s not lawyers’ fault that you need to cross that justice bridge! It’s like any other business; the bridge costs money to construct and maintain, and the lawyers spend years in school to train to become qualified and licensed justice bridge toll operators. So it stands to reason that the users should pay for these costs plus a ‘little bit of profit!’ Every business does that!! LOL
Being qualified toll operators, lawyers meticulously and ‘accurately’ log the time that you actually spend crossing the justice bridge and never charge you a penny more! Everybody has to make a living somehow; charging toll is how lawyers do it. Plus lawyers, many whom become politicians, help write very easily interpretable laws. People have just formed a habit of picking on the lawyers unnecessarily. ;-)
He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.
~~ Pat Buchanan ~~
That is quite a dig at his fellow conservative, John McCain - the leading Republican presidential hopeful, by U.S. conservative pundit Pat Buchanan. Cheney, as you know, is considered a hawk - some would say a war monger - in the Bush administration. So likening Cheney to Gandhi who practised and preached non-violence all his life, is like comparing night with day. But that is the whole point of Buchanan’s dig.
While McCain have made some quite hawkish statements, particularly about the war such as bombing Iran etc. - I think he said, “Bomb Iran. Bomb, bomb, bomb” or something similar; I wouldn’t worry too much about it.
Although anything is possible in any election, I don’t think Americans are going to elect a Republican as their president this time around; be it McCain or anybody else. Most American voters do not seem to have much faith in Republicans at this point in time. This is borne by the fact that while record number of voters have been participating in Democratic primaries the same is not true of the Republicans.
Even if McCain does get elected, the realities of the world, including the precarious state of the American economy, would force him to moderate his views and actions on war and he won’t make Cheney look like Gandhi. :-)
As we all know too well, what politicians say during election speeches doesn’t necessarily translate into action. And if McCain really carries out his war agenda then the consequences for the world will indeed be disastrous as starting a war is easy and it’s outcome is always unpredictable.
The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
~~ Charles De Gaulle ~~ (1890 - 1970)
Very funny and true. It’s usually the politicians, though there are others as well, who portray themselves as indispensable as if the world will come to a halt or cease to exist if they are gone. Time has shown, as evidenced by the burial of countless so called indispensable men, that the world is quite resilient and is not dependent on any one individual or even a group of individuals.
Nature made the law that everybody, without any exceptions, must ultimately die. The only unknown is when, where and how. Nature obviously doesn’t consider anybody indispensable; rich, poor, powerful, powerless and even those who claim themselves to be messengers of God with special access or connection to God, must die.
When any individual who thought himself to be indispensable ends up in a cemetery, there usually are a lot of others willing and able to fill in the shoes. And the world keeps humming along as usual. On a greater scale, nature doesn’t seem to consider even the entire human race as indispensable and even Earth existed long, long before humans showed up. So to portray or consider any individual as indispensable is a lot of stretch.
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
~~ Julius Rosenwald ~~
Exactly true. I believe on an average more dummies than smart people become rich.
In this world, very rarely a highly educated, smart professional becomes filthy rich. My theory on this is that most highly educated professionals find it extremely hard to become filthy rich because in any recognized profession requiring high skills, there are usually professional bodies that issue code of conduct and ethics which the professionals are required to follow. But there are no such requirements for the average Joe. So the highly educated professional who may be very smart but has his or her hands tied by the code of conduct and ethics, has to compete with others who have no such restrictions.
So just because somebody has managed to get rich doesn’t necessarily mean that he or she is smart or even intelligent. Lots of them are neither!
If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.
~~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~~ (1905 - 1980)
On the surface this quote seems funny but if you think over it, it is very meaningful.
Many people feel very lonely when they are alone. It’s a sign of weakness, a sign of total dependence on others and a lack of spirit of being independent.
It need not be like that. While it is good to have friends, relatives and whatever, one must also develop one’s will, determination and independence so that when you are alone, you don’t feel lonely. Being alone is actually good as it gives you uniterrupted time to think, brainstorm to get new ideas, read a book or whatever interests or hobbies you might have.
If you frequently feel lonely whenever you are alone then, as Jean-Paul Sartre says, you are definitely in bad company and you need to work on it. No one needs to feel lonely and desperate just because they happen to be alone.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
~~ Bertrand Russell ~~ (1872 - 1970)
So true and is proven by recent events. I am sure you have noticed how the present day fools and religious fanatics are positively sure that their God is the Best and their religion is the finest and, in particular, their interpretation of their religion is the correct one! While, at the same time, many of them say that there is only one God.
Now if we assume that there is only one God then the question of whose God is better doesn’t or shouldn’t even arise. But fools and fanatics are not capable of such reasoning and thinking because if they were capable of such reasoning and thinking then they won’t qualify as fools and fanatics.
Even if we assume that there are many Gods or gods, when was the last time their God or god appointed these fools and fanatics to speak on His (their God’s) behalf? Never, that I know of. All those who pretend to speak on behalf of the God are fake, no matter what religion they may belong to. If God intended to speak to us humans then I am sure God is quite capable of speaking for Himself.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
~~ Henry Kissinger ~~
I think Henry Kissinger is being very liberal - no pun intended! Probably a more accurate quote would be that that 99% of politicians give the other one percent a bad reputation. :-)
Why is it that so many politicians have such a bad reputation? Is it because they are inherently dishonest? I don’t think so. I think there is more to it than meets the eye. Politicians are just like other people - actually smarter than most of us as, afterall, they end up ruling over us!
We, as people, bear some responsibility for making the politicians behave the way they do. We willingly vote for those who make tall promises; the promises we know in our heart of hearts cannot possibly be kept. And we generally don’t vote for those politicians who try to stick to the facts and don’t make tall promises. Thus those politicians who try to stick to facts, being humans, quickly learn that to get elected they need to learn the ‘art’ of making tall promises. So we end up with the sort of policians we have.
Some people have tried to sue some politicians for breach of promises but courts take the view that politicians are not obligated to keep their election promises. May be we should try to force politicians to make promises under oath at election time and see if that will hold in court. Somehow I think that courts will still hold that politicians are not obligated to keep their election promises even if those promises were made under oath. :-)
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
~~ Thomas Jefferson ~~ (1743–1826)
This is one of my favorites. If we are going to dream then it definitely makes sense to dream for hope rather than despair.
I would say one should make it a habit to dream of hope and success. That will help you to keep a happy frame of mind and may even motivate you to set goals and make efforts to achieve those goals. One should always guard against thoughts of hopelessness and despair. Hopelessness and despair can never produce any good results. Hope is the staple of life; without hope there is nothing.
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
~~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~~ (1882 - 1945)
This quote is a classic. On the surface it might seem like a funny dig but it is full of meaning and inspiration. We all think ourselves to be very important but in most other people’s eyes, we are just an extra. However, that should not deter us from doing the very best we can, keep improving ourselves by continuously learning even as an extra. Because the lessons learned and experience gained while playing the extra will be highly beneficial in our own play, where we are the hero.
History, a distillation of rumour.
~~ Thomas Carlyle ~~ (1795 – 1881)
Funny and true! I think history is just rumour designed to appease the powerful rulers of the day. It has got to be totally inaccurate. Just look at what is happening right now. Do we ever know the truth? In spite of great communications means and freedom of press at least in some countries, we almost never know the truth; everybody has his or her own spin on every issue with usually total disregard for the facts.
And in ancient times when there were scant means of communications and many autocratic rulers, one can hardly expect unbiased recording of events. So history is basically agreed upon guesses by historians.
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
~~ Henry Youngman ~~(1906 - 1998)
Ha, ha. Some secret codes are hard to crack. :-)
I think there is no secret to a happy marriage because a vast majority of marriages are happy only for a little while. After that it’s anything but happy. I believe it’s just in the nature of humans. They are not happy with anything or anybody for long; doesn’t matter how good that thing or body may be. Most of us are always looking for smething new! That’s why extra-marital affairs are so prevalent.
Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
~~ Henry Ford ~~ (1863 - 1947)
Funny and yet so true! You get warmed twice if you chop your own wood because you get warmed when you chop it and you’ll get warmed the second time when you light fire with it.
So what does it really mean? It means that when you apply yourself to accomplish tasks, you feel better just like you get warmed when you chop wood. And what you accomplish today will be useful in future as well.
When we are born we cry that we have come to this great stage of fools.
~~ William Shakespeare ~~ (1564 - 1616)
Now that’s a good one as you would expect from William Shakespeare. LOL. I never thought of it that way. I have been under the wrong impression that we cry so that we can start breathing! Shakespeare obviously has a great point: Who wouldn’t cry when they realize that they have come to the great stage of fools! :-)
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
~~ Mark Twain ~~ (1835 - 1910)
It’s very true and even more true now-a-days. We like to eat goodies like chips, ice cream etc. but these are definitely not good for our health. And what is good for our health like fruits and vegetables, we don’t like to eat. We like to drink pop but that again is no good for our health. Water and milk are good but not too many of us are fond of these drinks. Same goes with doing; walking and exercise is good for our health but we would rather take a car even if the place we are going to is only a 5 minutes walk.
I wonder why it happens: Why we end up inventing things that are injurious to our well-being? Is it because at the time of invention we don’t have the foresight or the ability to predict what long term effect of a particular invention will be? No, I think that even if we could predict that a particular invention will adversely affect our health in the long run, we will still invent it and use it anyways. The inventor would justify his/her invention by saying that if he/she doesn’t invent it, somebody else would; moreover nobody is forcing anybody to use it.
So ultimately it’s up to us as individuals to develop the self-discipline to stay healthy by eating what we don’t want such as fruits and vegetables and do things that we don’t want such as walking and exercise.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
~~ Agatha Christie ~~ (1890 - 1976)
It is so true. It’s funny how we seem to think that we know ourselves well, yet we are almost never aware of many little habits that we have until somebody points them out to us. And while we are blissfully unaware of most of these little habits of ours, these little habits may be driving other people around us up the wall. Further, we usually tend to resent those who gather the guts to tell us about our irritating habits.
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
~~ Winston Churchill ~~ (1874-1965)
This quote is funny but quite sensible and motivational. If you are or you think you are going through hell then it makes sense to keep going. Because if you stop then you are destined to stay in hell but if you keep going you might get out of it.
On a more higher level, this quote is really to motivate us not to stop making efforts to improve our situation, no matter how hopeless the situation might seem. As a matter of fact, if you don’t give up and keep making efforts to improve the situation, you can be almost certain that the situation will improve.
Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
~~ Mark Twain ~~ (1835 - 1910)
And here I have been mistakenly believing all my life that God never gets tired! :-) I am wondering what this world would have looked like if God had decided to make man when God was well rested. Probably then we would have abundance of qualities like:
- No lies
- No corruption
- No wars
- No murders
- No stealing
- Total Honesty
and many more such undesireable qualities. LOL.
That will be a terribly boring world with lots of unemployment as we won’t need police, no need for judges, lawyers, no need for politicians, soldiers not needed. And above all there will be no obscene profits because everybody will charge just a fair price! No, no, no, we don’t want a boring world like that! See, God knows best that’s why He dicided to make man at end of the week’s work! :-)
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
~~ William Shakespeare ~~ (1564 - 1616)
Ha Ha Ha, so Shakespeare noticed some facts a few centuries ago. Unfortunately, the devils liked the planet Earth so much that they decided to stay here for good. So the hell is still empty and all the devils are roaming around right here!
God is on the side with the best artillery.
~~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~~ (1769 - 1821)
Exactly. God is never known to have sided with the ill-equipped or the weak. Smart God! :-)
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.
~~ Morris Udall ~~ (American Congressman, 1922 - 1998)
Morris shows his sense of humor with this great quote. Surprisingly, the quote is true more often than one would expect. It’s especially true in the stock market. If lots of so called stock analysts are recommending a particular stock as a buy, you can be almost ceratin that it will go down and sooner than you would imagine.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
~~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~~
That’s a great dig at humans. We definitely think we have figured out everything yet we never seem to know how to live!
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
~~ Henry Youngman ~~ (1906 - 1998)
Good advice, don’t you think? *lol
Young men think old men are fools; But old men know young men are fools.
~~ George Chapman ~~ (1559 – 1634)
Funny but not true. It’s too much of a generalization. Not all young men think that old men are fools or the vice versa though some do. Or may be it’s a fools world to begin with! *LOL
I don’t take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
~~ Bette Davis ~~ (1908 - 1989)
Quite funny and right on. For the most part, movies are for entertainment purposes only and one shouldn’t take them seriously.
Hell is other people.
~~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~~
This is a classic. Short and sweet. Funny yet true to the bone! The only problem is that the ‘other people’ think of us as the ‘other people’. If you really think about it, lots of problems occur because of the inability of people to get along with one another. And we all know about school-yard bullies and work-place bullies.
Well, if you were wondering where the hell might be, now you know. And since we are destined to deal with other people so we have to deal with hell whether we like it or not.
I do not think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arise directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
~~ Agatha Christie ~~
That is funny and also explains why lazy people can always come up with an excellent excuse for not doing anything. But necessity indeed is the mother of inventions even if that necessity may be ‘to save oneself trouble!’
