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But Buddhism isn't, strictly, a religion - no God involved.
And for the purposes of happiness in a post enlightenment western democracy, I think we can safely disregard Mao.
yes that dalai lama's principles, beliefs and ideas are true poison
Buddhism isn't a religion though is it?
There are few sensible people, we find, except those who share our opinion.
La Rochefoucauld, 1662 (but he could have been writing about the internet yesterday).
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain.
Of course Buddhism is a religion even Whoppit , myself, Dalia Lama and Mao agree on that ..now that is a pretty broad church 😉
In relation to religion.
"if people dont like their ideas laughed at then they shouldnt have such funny ideas"
Gypsey Rose Lee.
"The harder I work, the luckier I get"
Samuel Goldwyn
I also like Hitchins quote.
"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence"
Whoops already done!
"Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby"
Baden Powell, Scouting for Boys, 1934, on the subject of shorts...
"They give freedom to the legs and ventilation. Another advantage is that when the ground is wet, you can go about without stockings and none of your clothes gets damp. Damp clothes are dangerous and would soon make you ill."
Fred Dibnah, steeplejack.
"Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire."
Marcel Marceau;
"__________"
"Stoop if the roof is low"
"A great man can make those around him feely lowly, but the truly great man makes those around him feel great"
Ancient Chinese Proverbs.
DrP
Work less - buy less
"There has to be a nuclear bunker in Whitehall. Government doesn't stop merely because the country has been destroyed. Annihilation is bad enough without anarchy to make it even worse."
Sir Humphrey Appleby
"Its not about the bike" - Lance Armstrong, I think?
"MTFU." - anon
"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally." - W. C. Fields
its known as the stagehands creed but probably applies in most jobs:
We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful; We have done so much, for so long, with so little; We can now do virtually anything with nothing!
Religion is dangerous.
Rob, me ex GF's dad.
Gotta say i agree with that.
"better lives have been lived in the margins, locked in prisons and lost on the gallows, than have ever been enshrined in palaces"
Propagandhi- Todays empires, tomorrows ashes- 2000
'Beyond our skills and strength, expertise and experience, we must accept the world is as it is, including change however tragic. All we can do is mind how we go on the earth and look after each other and, if we cannot turn sadness into joy. or death back into life, friendship and remembering will have to do' - John Allen (Cairngorm John)
And
'Religion. Shit it.' Stephen Fry
and finally
"Happiness is a life dedicated to occupations for which that individual feels a singular vocation. Immersed in them, he misses nothing, the whole present fills him completely, free from desire and nostalgia...For that reason we want them to never end...And really, once absorbed in a pleasurable occupation, we catch a starry glimpse of eternity."
Ortega y Gasset
"son, I want you to take this piece of advice and live by it as I do. All capri drivers are w@nkers"
my mate Andy's taxi-driver dad
Supreme Dear Leader Mao the master of the Universe and the god of maggots that step on you."Power comes from the barrel of a gun"
Always liked " stand by the banks of the river long enough and the bodies of you enemies will float by"
"What you own, owns you".
My mate's Father-in-law.
before you criticise anyone, walk a mile in their shoes, that way if you piss them off they're a mile away and barefoot
Weyman Bennett of Unite Against Fascism.
"I support freedom of speech, but not for fascists"
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Peter Ustinov
"May your life be a decadent orgy of wasteful delight in the pursuit of meaningless indulgence."
--Coketalk
"Life is an important gift. Every minute we spend on this earth is a privilege; not a right."
Mark ‘petesgaff’ Fradgley
It has been my experience that those who have no vices have very few virtues.
(ABRAHAM LINCOLN)
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.
(CHARLIE PARKER)
'Never let the truth get in the way of a good story'
(BRANDON 'CHOPPER' READ)
I'd hate to advocate drugs, alcohol or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
(HUNTER S THOMPSON)
'easter eggs are only ****ing 99p, you baby- dicked tramp!'
(KYLE WILSON aged 11, reprimanding his selfish uncle)
'Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.'
(MILLMAN)
[gaelic] Go first through the wood but last through the bog [/gaelic]
My Gran
Mary Rose sat on a pin. Mary Rose. 🙄
Unattributed: "Sometimes you're the statue, sometimes you're the pigeon"
"A fussy man is a lonely man."
- Papa Jo 2002
The only difference between me and a mad man is a mad man thinks hes sane, where i know i am mad. Dali
She had a face like a dog lickin piss of a nettle. Anon
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt 1910
"science flies you to the moon, religion flies you into a building."
Dawkins
Seneca, Einstein, Wilde, Dorothy Parker, Noel Coward - all of them have coined aphorisms which stand the test of time. But truly, none of them can hold a candle to Churchill when it comes to quotes.
chocadooobie!!
"when we are no longer children, we are already dead."
Constantin Brâncu?i
stefmcdef, I fell for that hook line and sinker.
prick
x
Always carry a flagon of Whisky in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.
if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
All W.C Fields
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Desmond Tutu
"Beer is nature's proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy"
Benjamin Franklin
"Going about the city as I do I have come to the conclusion that there is more health about the beer drinker than there is about the picture goer"
My Granddad - quoted in the local paper c.1935
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist................"
Gen John Sedgwick, 1864
"I didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on me." - Malcolm X