Ohnoutka Quotes & Sayings

The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices. — Will Cuppy

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. — Eric Hoffer

Tai Chi Chuan, the great ultimate, strengthens the weak, raises the sick, invigorates the debilitated, and encourages the timid — Cheng Man-ch'ing

Three individuals form a partnership and agree to divide the
profits equally. X invests $9,000, Y invests $7,000, Z invests
$4,000. If the profits are $4,800, how much less does X receive
than if the profits were divided in proportion to the amount invested? — Jonah Lehrer

I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night. — Aaron Sorkin

first seek ye the kingdom of pure practical intelligence

shreds of posters and headlines
shards of gramophone records feathers

lights shining arcs
the well-lit borders

when the rush-hour comes
and the hour of the pile-up
and the sounds of breaking steel-plate and people
are heard in the dark

when the journey is broken, no one is on the right road — Pentti Saarikoski

Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed, the same desires and passions. Thus, it is an easy matter for him who carefully examines past events to foresee future events in a republic and to apply the remedies employed by the ancients, or, if old remedies cannot be found, to devise new ones based upon the similarity of the events. But since these matters are neglected or not understood by those who read, or, if understood, remain unknown to those who govern, the result is that the same problems always exist in every era. — Niccolo Machiavelli

A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then. — Aesop

But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing. — Richard Morris

Said I'd lose you if I wasn't careful, and then he took you away from me. I thought I'd lost you. — H.M. Ward

Men bore me;
Women abhor me;
Children floor me;
Society stinks — J.D. Salinger

After a lifetime in academia, I have discovered that there is only one requirement for someone to actually believe any of the one hundred most absurd ideas possible for a human mind to conceive: you must be an intellectual. Some ideas are so ridiculous that only a Ph.D. could believe them. — Peter Kreeft

In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessings. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence. — A.A. Lewis

If you're going to have a cabin fever, have a big cabin, you know. — Joe Cocker