Nature, it seems, is the popular namefor milliards and milliards and milliardsof particles playing their infinite gameof billiards and billiards and billiards.
A WORD TO THE WISELet the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare.Remember, the only acceptable casefor being in any particular place is having no business there.
Lovers meander in prose and rhyme,trying to say-for the thousandth time-what’s easier done than said.
Put up in a placewhere it is easy to seethe cryptic admonishmentT.T.TWhen you feel how depressinglyslowly you climbit’s well to remember thatThings Take Time.
Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.
DREAM INTERPRETATION Simplified.Everything’s eitherconcave or -vex,so whatever you dreamwill be something with sex.
Living isa thing you donow or never –which do you?
PRAYER to the sun above the clouds.Sun that givest all things birth,shine on everything on earth!If that’s too much to demand,shine at least on this our land.If even that’s too much for thee,shine at any rate on me.
WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight oilin studies diligent and slow,teaches himself, with painful toil,the things that other people know.
Losing one glove is certainly painful,but nothing compared to the pain,of losing one, throwing away the other,and finding the first one again.
THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERESHow instructiveis a star!It can teach usfrom afarjust how smalleach other are.
CANDLE WISDOM If you knewwhat you will knowwhen your candlehas burnt low,it would greatlyease your plightwhile your candlestill burns bright.
THE CURE FOR EXHAUSTIONSometimes, exhaustedwith toil and endeavour,I wish I could sleepfor ever and ever;but then this reflectionmy longing allays:I shall be doing itone of these days.
VITA BREVIS A lifetimeis morethansufficiently longfor people to get what there is of itwrong.
BRAVETo be brave is to behavebravely when your heart is faint.So you can be really brave only when you really ain’t.
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
ON PROBLEMSOur choicest planshave fallen through,our airiest castlestumbled over,because of lineswe neatly drewand later neatlystumbled over.
MankindMen, said the Devil,are good to their brothers:they don’t want to mendtheir own ways, but each other’s.
WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINKSome people cowerand wince and shrink,owing to fear ofwhat people may think.There is one answerto worries like these:people may thinkwhat the devil they please.
As Eternity has reckonedThere’s a lifetime in a second
Nobody can be lucky all the time,so when your luck deserts you in some fashiondon’t think you’ve been abandoned in your prime,but rather that you’re saving up your ration.
The road to wisdom? Well it’s plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again. But less and less and less.
If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.
The road to wisdom? Well it’s plain And simple to express: Err And err And err again But less And less And less.