Quotes from the Underground

Tantalizing tidbits of talk and text that have revealed themselves to me.

On December 7, 1941, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Howell Forgy said, "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."

When asked about his fashion sense, Howard Rheingold replied, "Garish is not enough" on August 2, 1994

Age - "It's a race between wisdom and brain cells. I know I'm wise but I can't remember" Howard Rheingold, October 3, 1994 "When the rich think about the poor they have poor ideas" - Eva Peron

In moment of pure Jenny-ism, Jenny Cool said, "I love to hurl food. It's fun to hurl food." as she propelled a pumpkin muffin over yonder (8/31/94)

Here's a lengthy and amusing recording of my friend Mike Murphy's computer troubles

"Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends." Tom Waits

"'Truck drivers,' Mae said reverently, 'an' after them shitheels.'" J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath page 207

"It's not the Zen way, but it gets the job done." Garrison Keiler (12/14/91)

"Each time you reach for a Coke, the olympic spirit is refreshed." - Coca-Cola (2/23/92)

"Go out there and win one for the Gipper." - Bob, the drunk homeless man (circa 1985)

"...children and the simple-hearted are nearer to God than most of us." - Maurice Francis Egan

"Justin, you want to know how to really please a woman? Learn to play the harmonica." - George, jr.

"Affluence trivializes, excessive affluence trivializes to the absurd." - Dren Geer

"Love is the shit that makes life bloom" - Spearhead rapper Michael Franti

Proverbs from the Underground

I love proverbs for their straight shooting profundity and the often utterly obscure images used to achieve that effect.

Darby Proverbs

Eminations from the mind of my friend GK.

A rock is only as hard as you throw it.
To leap you must jump.
Into shit we are seeking smell.
The earth rotates on a vegatable axis.
Never look a cow in the udder.
Trees are extensions of the feelings of life.
Physics makes the world go round.
Darby on the SATs: "My life reduced to dots."
Without rocks there wouldn't be sand.
The act of survival will soon make us extinct.
The change your face you must break your mirror.
A hole is only as big as you dig it.
Bush: stay out of mine.
Tears are tiny scars that last forever.

Moroccan Proverbs

The pumpkin gives birth and the fence has the trouble.
A stone from the hand of a friend is an apple.
The tar of my country is better than the honey of others.
If you are a peg, endure the knocking; if you are a mallet, strike.
Only its master stays in the grave.
Salt will never be worm-eaten.
The falcon does not struggle when he is caught.
Among walnuts only the empty one speaks.
The world has not promised anything to anybody.
An old cat will not learn how to dance.

Lebanese Proverbs

The son of a midwife knows everything.
Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
He who has money can eat sherbet in hell.
If life is hard on you, dwell in cities.
He makes a wine cellar from one raisin.
We traded in shrouds; people stopped dying.
His secret is at the tip of his tongue.
Lock your door rather than accuse your neighbour.
The bride is a frog, but the wedding a cyclone.
His brains hang at the top of his fez.

Persian Proverbs

The drowning man is not troubled by rain.
No lamp burns till morning.
Walls have mice and mice have ears.
Trust in God, but tie your camel.
A thief is a king till he's caught.
What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind.
The doctor must heal his own bald head.
He gives a party with bath-water.
You can't pick up two melons with one hand.
At night a cotton-seed is the same as a pearl.

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