Joel Bauer Quotes & Sayings

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. — Gustave Flaubert

I learned to smile by going through hell. Now I know what hell is and you don't. I can't tell you how it is, cause you can't do it with words. — Jack Kevorkian

Whoops there goes another rubber tree plant. — Jimmy Van Heusen

Love her enough to let her live. — Nely Cab

Death is death, Byron. We're dying, all of us, a little each day. Sometimes all at once in an instant. There are worse thing than dying. — Stephen Donald Huff

Well, you always know who you are. I just don't know who I'm gonna become. — Bob Dylan

Sunday is the one day I keep reminding myself that I should lay around and take it easy, but because I am O.C.D. and an extreme multitasker, I find it hard to get lazy. I love Sundays for painting because it's quieter; the gallery is closed, and there are no interruptions. — April Gornik

The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down. — Mason Cooley

The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time and I will stab you with this ink quill. — Cuthbert Soup

Draw the darkness ... and it will point out the light which has been in the paper all the while. Inside this world is folded another." from "Afterworld. — Anthony Doerr

Ah now, that's manners for you," said the little figure, who wore a large, floppy hat and a large, flappy overcoat. "Is there more? he says, as if it were poached quail's eggs and smoked gazelle and truffles, not just a mushrump, what tastes more or less like something what's been dead for a week and a cat wouldn't touch. Manners. — Neil Gaiman

When your blood is circulating freely, you are healthy. When money is circulating freely in your life, you are economically healthy. — Joseph Murphy

People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something. — Theodore Zeldin

One of the effects of original sin is an instinctive prejudice in favour of our own selfish desires. We see things as they are not, because we see them centered on ourselves. Fear, anxiety, greed, ambition and our hopeless need for pleasure all distort the image of reality that is reflected in our minds. Grace does not completely correct this distortion all at once: but it gives us a means of recognizing and allowing for it. And it tells us what we must do to correct it. Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right. — Thomas Merton