To follow foolish precedents and to wink with both our eyes, is easier than to think.
Category Archives: FOLLY
David Scheid; A man of words and not deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.
Fools and weeds grow without rain.
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in – forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” ~Emerson
“People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Call not the devil, he will come fast enough unbidden. Dan.
Call me not fool till Heaven has sent me fort- une. Shaks.
Better be a coward than foolhardy. (French)
IT is useless to attempt to teach or improve a fool.
Bray a fool in a mortar, he will not be wiser.
“Cigarette, A fire at one end, a fool at the other, and a bit of tobacco in between.”
Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs..
– Mary S. Ott, Bartlett’s Unfamiliar Quotations
“The chahuiztle is upon us!”
Sounds like a bad omen, right? Well, it is. Chahuiztle is the generic name for some parasites (especially fungi) that infest commercially important crops. The phrase implies that our problems are going from bad to worse and everything will soon go to hell. Some people misspell the phrase as “¡Ya nos cargó el chahuiztle!” which literally means “The chahuiztle is carrying us!” This second phrase is evidently wrong since fungi do not have arms to carry people around. There are, however, some creepy characters that can (metaphorically) carry us to our demise, like the infamous Coco or the Clown
http://matadornetwork.com/life/13-phrases-mexicans-understand/
Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.
Thomas Fuller
Men are foolish in cherishing the gay blossoms of the palas, whilst they neglect the fruit- bearing amon, because its flowers are insignificant. Drishtanta ShataJ
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.” – William Shakespeare, Richard III; Act 2, Scene 4.
” Women are wise offhand, and fools on reflection.”
Women and bairns lein [conceal] what they kenna. Scotch.
“It’s hard being left behind. (…) It’s hard to be the one who stays.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanese
Who has seen the peacock dance in the forest? (Hindustani).
The fool wanders, the wise man travels.
The guide ought to know every part of the mountain, the traveller need only know the path.
“She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.” ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
He who claps his hands for the fool to dance, is no better than the fool.
Four things put a man beside himself — women, tobacco, cards, and wine.
Truth and folly dwell in the wine-cask.
who pays his way keeps out of debt ; he who keeps out of debt gets rich.
“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
The beginning was play, the end was serious. ” Play’s gude while it is play.”
Those who play the game do not see it as clearly as those who watch.
“I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.” Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
“What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?”
Ogwo David Emenike
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Josh Billings
If you and a fool have an argument, he succeeds. African Proverbs
Det kommer inga stekta sparvar flygande i din mun.
No fried sparrows will fly into your mouth.
Ridiculous ambition: the sparrow flying after the hawk.
Proverbs 10:8 ESV : The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.
Language is an echo of our need to communicate, which is why it exists. I’ve never been interested in going totally beyond meaning, because there’s no point in writing. That’s not what poems are about, you might as well publish a leaf or a rock. But I am interested in the tensions you get when you go beyond conventionally expected meaning and come back again. JOHN TRANTER.
In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and the foolish build dams. ~ Nigerian
http://afritorial.com/the-best-72-african-wise-proverbs/
foto of the urunga footbridge in nsw australia at the mouth of the kalang and bellinger rivers into the pacific ocean
Gumbaynggirr
Gumbaynggirr by Travis Blair
“Gather round me children
There’s a story I’ll tell you,
A story about our heritage
A place where we go for a chew.
This place once looked so different
Mangrove trees and river gums,
An abundance of fishing
I encouraged friends to come.
We’d go fishing for Flathead
With our bottle lines and dough
Trying our skills not to tangle
Our lines but we’d have a go.
As we fished the sun shone
We shared our stories and dreams
Hoping our children would continue
Our tradition and what it means.
The white man thought it was better
Destroying my family’s sacred place
Removing all trees and making it a park
And calling it a “community space”.
How can it be a community space?
When the families have left
The place lonely and uninviting,
It hurts inside my chest.
How can my children learn about
Their culture and family?
The laws of survival, the Dreaming
And becoming more manly.
The white man they say “sorry”
yet I still feel sadness and sorrow
I have let down my ancestors
But yet we’ll still live with it tomorrow.
Read more: http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/arts/gumbaynggirr#ixzz2noeD48LI
In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and foolish build dams. ~Nigerian
http://www.squidoo.com/african-quotes-proverbs-and-sayings
the jim affleck bridge
Bill Tibben
somewhere on the southern highlands
someone stole a bowral bulldozer
and hooned it north screaming along
the lanes of a life movie in which he scripted
a police chase that could not catch him
and though he knows they’ll radio ahead
even at 160k there’s time to mentally rehearse
hollywood movie crash through stunts
the freeway curves toward a bridge
embankments trap the road spikes sprawl
swervedrive right through the cop all tyres blow
rollingcrashingover and over and over to a stop
he’s jumping clear escaping his own scene
abandoning a silent living child
A stubborn horse walks behind you, an impatient horse walks in front of you, but a noble companion walks beside you.
http://www.liverystable.net/horse_quotes.html
foto jack and cheeky the horses at raleigh nsw
Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
-Colette
“Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.”
― Henry David Thoreau
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Huxley
“That proves you are unusual,’ returned the Scarecrow; ‘and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Land Of Oz
It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf its confessor.
Italian
Cha nee tra ta’n cheyrrey gee yn ouw to cheet r’ee.
“It is not when the sheep eats the march-penny it tells a tale”
(literally, “it comes to her”)-
i.e., The result of evil-doing is not always apparent at first.
The ouw is a slow poison.
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