"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

 

" Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.".

 

"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."

 

Don't expect everyone to understand your Journey, especially if they never had to walk your PATH!

 

“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”

 

"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."

Denis Diderot (5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784)


Perhaps this has become a little too fluffy lately.



People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.
Mikhail Kalashnikov

Terrorists also want to use simple and reliable arms.
Mikhail Kalashnikov



We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn

That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:

But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,

So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.

We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,

Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,

But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come

That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.

With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,

They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;

They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;

So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.

They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.

But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,

And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life

(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)

Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,

And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,

By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;

But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,

And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew

And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true

That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four

And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man

There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.

That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,

And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins

When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,

The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Kipling

 

Maybe a little less fluff for today Mr. Jungle!!!

I keep six honest serving–men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

-Kipling

 

I wonder if man ever see's himself crying, and, if he does, why will he never dry the tears?

Anonymous

 

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched -- They must be felt with the heart.

 

You can't be a real Country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have a football team, but at the very least you need a beer.

" I predict one of these two teams will win the Super Bowl." .