This night, all night, the lean dogs of desire Have bayed upon my track, Yelping, keen of scent, afire To pull me down.
Verse (1915) Thompson, Vance, 1863-1925
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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.
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FOTO – KNOX BROS IN MILTON BRISBANE. 2007.
Childhood is health.
"The English Poems of George Herbert: Together with His Collection of Proverbs Entitled Jacula …"
A child’s service is little, yet he is no little fool that despiseth it.
A cat has nine lives, and a woman has nine cats’ lives.
Sail, quoth the king ; hold, faith the wind.
FOTO – OWL AND PUSSYCAT BY ERIS FLEMING AS HUNG IN GRAYDON GALLERY NEW FARM BRISBANE.
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
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. JOHN STEINBECK
FOTO – RABBIT AT KINGSCLIFF 2005
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving. Rosalind Russell
A flower you plant may not necessarily bloom; but the seed of a tree you happen to drop may grow into a forest.
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CHINESE PROVERBS.
FOTO – DINNER ON THE LAWN AT LINDEN LEA.
Kahlil Gibran And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Play fast, lose fast. Play slow, lose slow.
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FOTO – ILNAM ESTATE WINERY CAROOL. BOCCE GAME. 2008.
To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. TOM ROBBINS.
It takes a wise man to act the fool
FOTO – STOKERS SIDING HALL FEBRUARY 2009
A neighbours hen looks as big as a goose, and his wife as young as a girl. KURDISH
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.
Henry David Thoreau
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." Helen Keller
A man hated the way he walked and decided to learn how people in the city of Handan carried themselves. The result was that not only did he fail to learn the new style, but he also forgot his own way of walking. He could only but crawl back to his hometown where he became a laughing stock.
FOTO – QUEENSLAND/ NSW BORDER 2008
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Shelagh Delaney. Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.
Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you cannot go through a particular door. Always be prepared to go through a door that leads to your goal.
Ann Saddlemyer, literary historian.
Ne permettez jamais à personne de vous dire que vous ne pouvex pas vous engager dans tell our telle voie. Soyez toujours pretes à continuer jusqu’ç ce que vous atteigniez votre objectif.
Ann Saddlemyer, Historienne de la litérature.
FOTO – JENNIFER AND JOANNE. 2007. WEST TWEED HEADS.
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"Shadow puppets can’t move on their own and there are puppeteers behind the curtain." Hubei Proverb
1843 THE CONQUEROR WORM by Edgar Allan Poe
Lo! ’tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble low, And hither and thither fly- Mere puppets they, who come and go At bidding of vast formless things That shift the scenery to and fro, Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Woe!
“The girl who can’t dance says the band can’t play” Yiddish Proverbs (1949)
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. Angela Monet
FOTO – JAMIESONS RESTAURANT WEST TWEED HEADS 2008
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Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. Simone Signoret
I didn’t marry you because you were perfect. I didn’t even
marry you because I loved you. I married you because you
gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults.
And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect
people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage.
And when our children were growing up, it wasn’t a house that
protected them; and it wasn’t our love that protected them – it was that
promise.
Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
FOTO – ELIZABETH CRAIG AND JOHN GEORGE SANDERS WEDDING
Mouse King: Today king of mice, tonight king of dolls. Tomorrow… king of EVERYTHING! The Nutcracker Prince 1990
An Old Doll
Low on her little stool she sits
To make a nursing lap,
And cares for nothing but the form
Her little arms enwrap.
With hairless skull that gapes apart,
A broken plaster ball,
One chipped glass eye that squints askew,
And ne’er a nose at all –
No raddle left on grimy cheek,
No mouth that one can see –
It scarce discloses, at a glance,
What it was meant to be.
But something in the simple scheme
As it extends below
(It is the “tidy” from my chair
That she is rumpling so)
Our way is not soft grass, it’s a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun. Ruth Westheimer
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-three today and we don’t know where the hell she is.
Ellen DeGeneres
African. Indecision is like a stepchild: if he doesn’t wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water. When elephants fight is the grass that suffers.
Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don’t expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
World Tour in 100 Proverbs and Sayings
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FOTO – URUNGA 1979 JOSEFINE AND CASSANDRA
Where the warg howls, the goblin prowls.
The tricks of illusion came to him so easily that it seemed he had been born knowing them and needed only to be reminded
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula Le Guin
FOTO – CURRUMBIN CRYSTAL COTTAGE QLD 2008
China "A woman with long feet ends up alone in a room."
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
Mahatma Gandhi
FOTO – 2 ARMIDALE LEGS AND ONE FOOT.
