#wisdom

"Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is."

"Closets Opening and Closing [10w] + [10w] You can take sweet gay men out of the closet;you can't take the closet out of the master-bedroom suite."

"Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier."

"If your dreams seem to be drifting away, wake up!"

"Children Learn to Love and Hate A child understands love by three months and hate by three years.How the child processes that understandingwill shape his character for the next seventy."

"Hung [10w] Being caught with your pants down is a hanging offense."

"At the potluck, I brought two dishes: knowledge and mashed potatoes and gravy. Guess which one got cleaned out and which one hardly got touched."

"The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom."

"Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope."

"Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside."

"Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there."

"Las Vegas Magic! I was the greatest magician in the world.Things were going great. My agent booked me to play the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas for $100,000 per performance!When I got onstage everything suddenly disappeared.I'm not sure if it was allan illusion or a delusion,but I cashed the check anyway just to be safe."

"Having Words with Words [10w] ”I’ve had a falling out with words,leaving me speechless."

"Expectation [10w] Eyes that see with expectation lieby not querying, 'Why."

"Predestination [10w] 'Twas predestined that I'd call predestination a crock of shit."

"Advice,"Doña Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage."

"Poets Job Description [10w] Poets console the soul with words and eyes with images."

"Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it."

"You can change your mind, don't let your mind change you"

"A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use."