Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Thomas Fuller.
http://www.best-quotes-poems.com/giving-quotes.html
foto – stop light at central railway station sydney
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Cross in a crowd and the crocodile won’t eat you. (Malagasy)
http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/topics/proverbs_t118.htm
A sannyasin will have a certain fragrance, a certain style, a certain way which is subtle; it may not be very apparent to the eyes, but it can be detected. I would like you to be known as separate from the crowds, not by your clothes not by anything outer, but just by your very being — your silence, your peace, your love, your eyes. Every gesture of you should declare that you are a sannyasin.
OSHO.
foto – parramatta road sydney camperdown way
The hen with baby chicks doesn’t swallow the worm Sukuma (Tanzania)
http://www.afritopic.com/afritopic-proverbs.htm
http://jacketmagazine.com/16/ov-waga.html
the street resembles a neck
from a wayward guitar
with Hotel Bone sitting idle on a vein,
wedged between two frets
where the bad tunes can reach her
Sam Wagan Watson: hotel bone
foto – hotel on the way from annandale to the airport in sydney april 2010
HE could drink with the face of man.
Most alcoholics are bankrupt idealists!
The French proverb says, the appetite comes with eating. So in drinking, the more we imbibe, the more we desire.
http://www.archive.org/details/proverbsproverbi00chevuoft
FOTO – KNOX BROS IN MILTON BRISBANE. 2007.
One by one the penguins steal my sanity.
Damn revisionists, why can’t they ever make history better? Like have us all live in Antarctica and worship the Golden Penguin? That’d be great. Dale Gribble
FOTO -MOBS PICTURE OF PENGUINS ART TARONGA PARK 2006
I have a stepladder. It’s a very nice stepladder but it’s sad that I never knew my real ladder. Craig Charles
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you – suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ‘well, I’ll have a go, too’. Margaret Thatcher
A dead elephant cannot be covered by a lotus leaf. THAI.
Extract from the Song Cycle of the Moon Bone
The Evening Star goes down across the camp, among the white gum trees …
Far away, in these places near Milingimbi
Goes down among the Ngurulwulu people, towards the camp and the gum trees,
At the place of the Crocodiles, and of the Evening Star, away towards Milingimbi …
The Evening Star is going down, the Lotus Flower is on its stalk …
Going down among all those western clans …
It brushes the heads of the uncircumcised people …
Sinking down in the sky, that Evening Star, the Lotus …
Shining down on the foreheads of all those Sandfly people …
It sinks there into the place of the white gum trees, at Milingimbi.
Sung by the Wonguri-Mandjigai people, translated by Ronald M. Bernd
http://archives.univ-lyon2.fr/112/1/10_a_Australian_Poems_toward_Reconciliation.pdf
FOTO – BRISBANE BOTANICAL GARDENS. LOTUS GARDEN 2007
"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." W C Fields
In the world of mules there are no rules.
Ogden Nash
FOTO – MELBOURNE CUP SWEEP.
“Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.” Paulo Coelho. The Alchemist.
A DILIGENT SEARCH FOR WISDOM
Seeking and searching with the same fervour as seeking for silver
and other hidden treasures.
FOTO - SEARCHING IN AUCHENFLOWER.
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. Cyril Connolly.
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
Katherine Hepburn
FOTO – MORRIS STREET PADDINGTON BRISBANE 2007
Hope is tomorrow’s veneer over today’s disappointment. Evan Esar American Humorist (1899 – 1995)
Nemo omnia scire potest.
(Varro, De Re Rustica, 2.1.2)
No one is able to know everything.
FOTO – UQ 2007
She has sent out her maidens; she calls from the heights out over the city. Proverbs 9.
No one can understand the heights of heaven, the depths of earth, or everything on a king’s mind and heart.
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
foto – BRISBANE CITY
Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel. Martin Luther (1483-1546) German priest.
The wages of sin are death, but after they take the taxes out, it’s more like a tired feeling, really. Paula Poundstone
FOTO – COOLANGATTA CATHOLIC CHURCH
"Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently." Chinese Proverb
May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.
Irish Blessing
FOTO – DAISY HILL BRISBANE 2008
Your feet will bring you to where your heart is. IRISH.
On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet. George Gordon.
FOTO WINTERSUN COOLANGATTA 2008
The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways Prov. 14:8
“A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.” Proverbs 22:3
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. Yiddish Proverb.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. Rachel Carson
FOTO – BRUCE SANDERS IN THE 1920s SYDNEY
Every horse thinks his own pack the heaviest.
Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must. Mother Teresa
FOTO – AUCHENFLOWER 2008
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you. Colette.
Buppô to wara-ya no amé, dété kiké.
One must go outside to hear Buddhist doctrine or the sound of rain on a straw roof.[4]
JAPANESE.
Malay proverb. "shoulders given, head demanded."
Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.
Augustus William Hare
