contradictory proverbs
Look before you leap. //// He who hesitates is lost.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. //// Out of sight, out of mind.
You’re never too old to learn. ////You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
A word to the wise is sufficient. ////Talk is cheap.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.////Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Seek and ye shall find. ////Curiosity killed the cat.
it seems like love and death and rock ‘n’ roll are the same experience
- Chuck Klosterman
“The best way out is always through.”
— Robert Frost
"The very worst line in Latin poetry’ was, according to Professor Tyrrell, achieved by Statius when he apostrophised the condition of childlessness as ‘to be avoided by every effort’ (Orbitas omni fugienda nisu)."
―– “A Study in Superlatives,” in Sir Edward Tyas Cook, Literary Recreations, 1918
―– “A Study in Superlatives,” in Sir Edward Tyas Cook, Literary Recreations, 1918
cannibal hymn
- A god who lives on his fathers,
- who feeds on his mothers…
- Unas is the bull of heaven
- Who rages in his heart,
- Who lives on the being of every god,
- Who eats their entrails
- When they come, their bodies full of magic
- From the Isle of Flame..
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
―Oscar Wilde
―Oscar Wilde