Aphorisms from the Ages


 

 

I refuse to hold her hand and be slapped by it at the same time.

11-14-77

 

Failure to decide is in itself a decision.

1/78

 

death is alive

6-13-78

 

History speaks subtly, but with a loud voice.

6-13-78

 

Often the craft of subtlety is too obvious.

6-23-78

 

Fantasy is the ultimate comment on reality.

6-23-78

 

The only difference between a plastic and stainless spoon is that one cracks teeth while the other cracks.

6-23-78

 

In the practice of studying physiognomies, one must come face to face with the problem.

6-23-78

 

Why do people advise us to slow down but expect us to do it so quickly?

6-23-78

 

My English teacher always says that you get out of a book what you bring to it. I agree. But I'd also add you get out of a book what is put into it.

6-23-78

 

Being original is difficult. For instance, try saying that.

6-23-78

 

Bothering with bothersome people is too much a bother.

6-23-78

 

a greased palm
equals
a palmed buck
equals
a bucked law

7-5-78

 

STUDENT: Why?
TUTOR: You learn by teaching.
STUDENT: I learn by being taught.

7-6-78

 

TO PARENTS

Parents:
once your kid's begotten
let not him be forgotten.

7-8-78

 

If I were ever to think about what to write, I really think I couldn't think about it. So why not just write it?

7-14-78

 

The work of any good writer is an attempt to develop a suitable caption for the picture of life.

7-16-78

 

Why is dirt so dirty while soil seems so clean?

7-19-78

 

Always remember where you've been, becuase if you weren't there then, you wouldn't be here now.

7-29-78

 

The reason that so many people don't accomplish their sole purpose in life is because they have more than one.

7-31-78

 

You're not doing something unless you realize you're doing it.

8-9-78

 

Don't knock not knocking it until you've tried it until you've tried it.

8-17-78

 

Lovers aren't for loving; they're for being in love with.

8-21-78

 

Drink tea.

9-5-78

 

Truth is honesty.

9-5-78

 

Broken dreams are like broken records; they play themsleves over and over again.

9-5-78

 

The thrill of finding a dollar bill is worth more than the dollar itself.

9-8-78

 

A man with whom no one agrees is a poor man. A man with whom no one disagrees is poorer.

9-8-78

 

It takes a man to admit he's not a man.

9-9-78

 

breaking laws
is breaking bread
when you're with your dearest friends

10-21-78

 

Often the wisest use of time is wasting it.

10-22-78

 

visionary responses
to a stimulus from the future
independently run through
a nervous present.

10-24-78

 

Yet I suppose it's my own doings that do me in.

11-19-78

 

Playing solotaire
is easier when
no one else
can see your hand.

11-19-78

 

Black humor is only regular humor painted.

12-17-78

 

What's written ain't what's read.

12-19-78

 

if you believe me can i beleive myself?

1-8-79

 

Often the difference between the Haves and Have-nots is that they are reall the Cans and Cannots.

1-29-79

 

transcendentalism abounds
where there are no
boundaries

2-2-79

 

Poetry is taking the smallets things in life and making them big as they really are.

 

2-8-79

 

Farewell does not mean goodbye.

3-8-79

 

The excitement of doing something exciting is more exciting than the doing of it.

3-14-79

 

Our own devices are our vices.

4-5-79

 

from my childhood I got me

4-19-79

 

Some would say that being rich
is an itch.
They're the one you see
scratching happily.

5-12-79

 

I've heard that Heaven can wait
and it's mine to say
that Hell cannot

6-2-79

 

Liars are undiscovered actors.

9-25-79

 

It's better to break than to bend.

10-18-79

 

Childhood is free because freedom is unknown.

10-18-79

 

Secrets are built upon friendship.

1-4-80

 

If you put your lamp under a bushel,
the bushel may catch fire!

2-4-80

 

Behold the blue waters,
and indebt yourself to the sky.

2-4-80

 

When it seems like we know ourselves,
we are always ending up meeting someone else.

4-11-80

 

a self is but an other
conducted by a me

4-24-80

 

a piano is only as good
as the pianist
and yet
the pianist
can be no better than the piano

4-25-80

 

A fruit is only an older seed.

6-18-80

 

Realization comes but once;
thereafter it's just recognition.

7-18-80

 

A song can be sung without singing.

8-5-80

 

Life is the aanswer to all of life's questions.

8-11-80

A beginning is a time to finish
that which we have begun.

9-5-81

 

Least in the world of lessons dwell what's taught,
and foremost, what is not.

10-7-81

 

The life you live before your death
is simply one deep inhalation before the final breath.

11-12-81

 

The higher the edifice the more is it's leaning.

12-6-81

 

what will be will be what was

6-22-82

 

this is the sin
to go and know not where we've been

7-6-82

 

everything true is false in disguise

8-10-82

 

If the legs were mistaken and the crotch were not there would they meet?
The answer is found in the feet.

8-17-82

 

The world has too many poets
if you are one of them.

10-10-82

 

why must I meddle with my soul
if I am to let my spirit go?

11-29-82

 

Things that can't be said
are never worth the saying.

7-4-83

 

Enough with all the quirks;
that form is best that works.

10-5-83

 

Life without life is bread without leaven;
hell is the path toward heaven.

10-5-83

 

when i grow flat in you
i become myself

7-31-84

 

God's not going to kill me; he's just going to let me die.

7-31-84

 

We never enter the present (moment); we are always leaving it.

1-19-85

 

The problem is, when people see the light they're blinded.

5-16-85

 

Someone said that life sucks and then you die. They were alive at the time.

9-23-13