You made your bed, you lie in it.

The future is not what it used to be.

There are two kinds of dangerous people in this world.

Those who want to change everything, and those who want to change nothing.

Reality is alright for a holiday but you wouldn't want to live there.

Thinking gets in the way of believing.

You can't make an omlette with breaking eggs.

Nothing with meaning is easy.

Money won't make you happy.

But debt will make you miserable.

People who say it cannot be done should get out of the way of people doing it.

Chinese Proverb

Our rulers live in a different land.

Smile or die.

Someone much more clever and eloquent than me has realised that all this positive thinking is horseshit. If you're going to face your problems you have to be realistic about them. Ehrenreich goes even further. Positive thinking may even be the causes of your ongoing worries.

Read a book review here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/09/barbara-ehrenreich-smile-lucy-ellmann

It's cruel to be kind.

Solving one problem creates another.

“In America, only the successful writer is important...

... in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is”

Geoffery Cottrell

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men are aft to go agley

cos it's Burn's night.

Befriending people we don't like is just the price we pay to avoid loneliness.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

French Disko

This is one of my favourite songs. It's my favourite song by Stereolab certainly, and hte Editors cover is pretty superb too. What I love about it most of all are the lyrics. Both bleaking and uplifting. Life is shit, but its still worth fighting for.

Though this world's essentially
an absurd place to be living in
it doesn't call for total withdrawal

I've been told it's a fact of life
that men have to kill one another
well, I say there are still things worth fighting for

La resistance!

Though this world's essentially
an absurd place to be living in
it doesn't call for total withdrawal

It said "Human existence is pointless"
as acts of rebellious solidarity
can bring sense in this world

La resistance!
life is hard
La resistance!

Life is beautiful.

The world is hell.


Harold Pinter

The more you fail the less it hurts.

If you've got no kind words to say you should say nothing more at all.

Felling a bit Maccabees.

Time waits for no man.