thought provoking

[shaad_lko]

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

Groucho Marx

I'll hazard a guess:

kids, especially when they grow up, are either unaware of their creative potential or their curious innocence which enables them to learn new stuff and create their own world of meaning. Especially, later in life, we look down upon our earlier selves as being immature, but it is this creativity which contains in itself the seeds of genius..

[knowledge seeker]

I'll hazard a guess:

kids, especially when they grow up, are either unaware of their creative potential or their curious innocence which enables them to learn new stuff and create their own world of meaning. Especially, later in life, we look down upon our earlier selves as being immature, but it is this creativity which contains in itself the seeds of genius..

Hmm thank you.. but why will he be glad for getting rid of this creativity?

[DocW]

Some of his other quotes

I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself.

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Ice Water? Get some Onions - that'll make your eyes water!

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

If you want to see a comic strip, you should see me in the shower.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife.

Blood's not thicker than money.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Don't point that beard at me, it might go off.

Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.

Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot

How do you feel about women's rights ? I like either side of them.

I could dance with you till the cows come home, on second thought I'll dance with the cows till you come home.

I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.

I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago...I shot my broker.

I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.

I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.

I sent the club a wire stating, Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

I've known and respected your husband for many years, and what's good enough for him is good enough for me.

Last night I shot an elephant in my Pajamas and how he got in my pajamas I'll never know.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?

Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!

Oh are you from Wales ?? Do you know a fella named Jonah ?? He used to live in whales for a while.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies.

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Remember men, you are fighting for this lady's honor; which is probably more than she ever did.

Say! You haven't stopped talking since we got here! You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!

She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

She's afraid that if she leaves, she'll become the life of the party.

There's only one way to find out if a man is honest...ask him. If he says 'yes,' you know he is a crook.

There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit...retire!

Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.

Time wounds all heels.

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. . . But we're going back next year.

Who are you going to believe, me or your lyin' eyes?

Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.

Why was I with her? She reminds me of you. In fact, she reminds me more of you than you do!

When discovered by his wife, kissing the maid, Groucho said "I was just whispering in her mouth".

Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first.

We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.

You know I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters?

You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it.

[DocW]

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate
little else than the variability of the weather.
-- David Hare

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you
with a miniature machine gun.
-- Matt Groening

[shaad_lko]

we do not realize the importance of curiousity which enables us to learn in the first place when we were kids.. We think its better to "grow up" (ie- get rid of a kid's brain), little realizing that it is the kid's brain which is the most active..

[knowledge seeker]

@DocW hmm Okay

we do not realize the importance of curiousity which enables us to learn in the first place when we were kids.. We think its better to "grow up" (ie- get rid of a kid's brain), little realizing that it is the kid's brain which is the most active..

Thank you so much, its clear enough now. Sorry, I bothered you.

[Hawkeye]

are you serious? Its not funny. There is some deep meaning in that quote, I know, but I can't reach to.

The quote is by Grouch Marx, a classic slap stick comedian, he meant it as a joke

[knowledge seeker]

The quote is by Grouch Marx, a classic slap stick comedian, he meant it as a joke

why then you didn't expand it that time? and I said that, Are you serious? for your sayings, Sometimes they don't have any meaning, they are for fun.

No, even their, they have some enfolded message. anyhow I am sorry, If you have found anything offensive.

[shaad_lko]

The quote is by Grouch Marx, a classic slap stick comedian, he meant it as a joke

comedians are not always jokers. In fact, the best one is who makes subtle comments on commonly-held norms.

[DocW]

Education is not received. It is achieved.
-- Source Unknown

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
-- Clarence Day

Age may wrinkle the face, But lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul
-- Source Unknown

Ultimately, whatever is in your reality is your responsibility.
-- Nisandeh Neta

[knowledge seeker]

Sayings of Ali (Rz)

He who praises you murders you.

A man who praises himself displays his deficiency of intellect.

Do not have too many irons in the fire; concentrate on one thing at a time.

Do not run after the world, let the world run after you.

Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.

[DocW]

There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.
-- P. J. O'Rourke


Read much, but not many books.
-- Benjamin Franklin


To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.
-- Hellmut Walters


There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

[knowledge seeker]

May you live all the days of your life.
-anon

I don't know when you are not interested in learning, why Life teaches you The Lessons?
-anon

In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.
- Kathy Norris

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.
- Benny Hill


I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
- Oscar Wilde

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde

[knowledge seeker]

A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.

-Arthur Bloch

[DocW]

BULLEH SHAH


BULLEH SHAH, a Master Muslim Sufi Poet of Medieval Punjab on Search for GOD!!
He identified where to find Love and the Divine presence. Nowhere, but within ones self. !



The following lines, in Punjabi language, and their translation are:


Je rab milda nahateya dhoteya, te rab milda dadduan machiyan noo,
Je rab milda jangal phireyan te rab milda gaiyaan bachiyan noon
Je rab milda mandir - masiti te milda cham chidikhiyan noon
Ve miyan Bulleya rab onhan noon milda
Ati dil-eya achiyyan sachhiya noon


If God was to be found by bathing and cleaning, then frogs and fishes would have found him long back;
If God was to be found by roaming in jungles, then cows and other animals would have found him long back;
If God was to be found in Temples and Mosques then the birds and the bats would have found him long back;
Bulleh, GOD will be found only by those who are true and good at heart