#2901: | Judging by boy bands through the ages, girls like boys with hair like girls'. |
#2902: | "Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes." ~ Schopenhauer via @philo_quotes |
#2903: | Sometimes the best decision is to defer the decision until later. |
#2904: | Some decisions require swift and decisive action while others are best deferred so they have the opportunity to resolve themselves. |
#2905: | An oft-neglected factor in any decision is the will and intentions of the other party to it. |
#2906: | Any help you give will be devalued and abused unless the subject of your help decides he wants it and is willing to pay a price for it. |
#2907: | It is not usually your role to correct the delusions of others, but you must not do anything to encourage those delusions either. |
#2908: | If you need to foster a delusion to sell your product then you shouldn't be selling it to begin with. |
#2909: | Hidden within every misfortune is an opportunity. It's up to you to discover it. |
#2910: | Most employers want workers who will come in and do the same job, day after day, year after year — not someone with ambition. |
#2911: | Trees are the result of an arms race among plants, growing ever higher to snatch the sun from competitors. |
#2912: | Nowadays, selling your soul to the Devil is referred to as "credit". |
#2913: | [Duplicate tweet deleted.] |
#2914: | To squander resources is to laugh in the face of those who don't have them. If you later run out yourself, schadenfreude is justified. |
#2915: | With relative wealth comes both responsibility and isolation. |
#2916: | The worst thing about being an actor is that you're playing to someone else's script. You control the nuances but not the big picture. |
#2917: | Thoreau, like the Bible, can be quoted to support just about any position you choose to take. |
#2918: | The sexual urge is unavoidable. Either you acknowledge it and deal with it, or you push it underground where it does terrible things. |
#2919: | Anyone who would retire to some gentle vacation spot to live out his final years is pretty much dead anyway. |
#2920: | Let it be said that you crammed as much life as possible into your final years on Earth. |
#2921: | Why are you wasting your time on that? You're dying, and there are more important things to do with the time you have left. |
#2922: | New photo album: Quebec City (yesterday) http://bit.ly/aPb8nK |
#2923: | The trouble with Santa Claus: Isn't the kid going to be miffed when he discovers he's been lied to all these years? |
#2924: | My mom/dad/country/religion is the best one in the whole world! One of the great traumas in life is discovering it ain't so. |
#2925: | Faith is a mechanism people use to justify whatever it is they have already committed to. |
#2926: | One of the pleasures of the northern latitudes is the long, lazy sunsets. You got plenty of time to do what you want before dark. |
#2927: | The nature of freedom is that you don't know in advance what you are going to need it for. |
#2928: | Mr. Mobius and his strip confuse the hell out of me. |
#2929: | A dream that is just out of reach can seem to solve any problem. |
#2930: | [Duplicate tweet deleted.] |
#2931: | Should is really be called a PDA or more properly a PED — Personal Enslavement Device? |
#2932: | "Old" is the state of having already given up on life. For some, it happens at an early age; others never get there. |
#2933: | I think I may need Trilipix™. No idea what it does, but judging from the ads, it seems to match my active lifestyle. |
#2934: | There's no limit to the atrocities a person of faith can commit, being as they don't have a moral compass of their own. |
#2935: | What a loser you are! It's like I've got the Trix, and you're that silly rabbit who never figures out that TRIX ARE FOR KIDS! |
#2936: | American marketing is based on the principle that if you add more adjectives to something, the suckers will pay more money for it. |
#2937: | History makes you realize all the amazing things done by dead people. |
#2938: | If you want it too much, you can't have it, but if you want it but don't need it and you watch for opportunities, you just might get it. |
#2939: | The less someone has, the more jealous he is of guarding it, down to the homeless guy who will kill you to protect his tin cans. |
#2940: | The American Dream: an utterly meaningless life populated by possessions, property and packaged experiences. |
#2941: | Sometimes, the key to a great product is profoundly not giving a shit. Then you can make detached decisions about what's in front of you. |
#2942: | Whenever anyone tempts you to "Be your own boss!" just remember what a jerk that guy can be. |
#2943: | When you're just waking up and you spy through half-open eyes that it's 5:97 am, you know something's wrong. It's just hard to fathom what. |
#2944: | Noticed Wal-Mart cashier failed to scan a $30 item before she put it in my bag but I kept my mouth shut. Is that wrong? http://bit.ly/bVrXUt |
#2945: | Saw "Groundhog Day" on the Weather Channel, apparently on the pretense it's a weather-related movie. Are there no boundaries anymore? |
#2946: | "You say you don't believe in ghosts? Maybe my unverifiable anecdote will convince you." @donni |
#2947: | There's a fine line between love and strangulation. |
#2948: | There's nothing as sad and tragic as a suburban life dedicated to recycling. |
#2949: | Cigarettes, alcohol, lottery tickets, caffeine, high fructose corn syrup -- all the essentials of life from your local convenience store. |
#2950: | Every man believes himself to be reasonable, fully justified in what he does. Only others are unreasonable. |
#2951: | [Duplicate tweet deleted.] |
#2952: | Hey, here's a clever marketing idea: Take the prefix "eco" and slap it on your product. The suckers will buy it and pay twice as much! |
#2953: | What fools do with their money is they acquire stuff, and these things become the prison that entraps them for the rest of their lives. |
#2954: | You can always tell a novice air traveler, because when the flight attendant tells them to review the safety instruction card, they do! |
#2955: | Your Number One source for irrelevant and meaningless news is called "sports." |
#2956: | I've learned to stop being angry when Facebook "fixes" things that weren't broken, thereby breaking more things. You have to trust in God! |
#2957: | All you really need in life is the basic product that gets the job done. You don't need the add-ons and garnishes, which only make you fat. |
#2958: | In food, sex, travel, drugs or any other stimulation, you'll never get the same high again. The thrill always fades with repetition. |
#2959: | When you find something thrilling, the worst thing you can do is commit yourself to repeating it. The thrill goes, but the commitment stays. |
#2960: | What is a food court? Isn't that where foods are judged fairly based only on the evidence? Why, then, can't I find anything edible here? |
#2961: | The depressing thing about advertising is that no matter how stupid it is, there must be someone falling for it or it wouldn't exist. |
#2962: | The usual effect of wealth is to allow people to indulge their addictions without accepting the consequences. |
#2963: | "There's no reward without risk." Maybe so, but risk alone isn't enough. It has to be a smart risk not a stupid one. |
#2964: | Marketing is the art of lying in such a way that you can't be prosecuted. |
#2965: | "He who buys what he does not need steals from himself." @frugalhero |
#2966: | My photo albums from Ghost Towns and Abandoned Places: http://bit.ly/blT91g |
#2967: | Living on next to nothing is easy. The problem is living with all the obligations you accumulated when you thought you had more. |
#2968: | Love those handicapped toilet stalls! Spread out, set a spell, use the WiFi! Unless you see a cane or wheelchair, the place is yours! |
#2969: | On my bucket list: Own a horse. Never ride it. |
#2970: | On my bucket list: Die, then be resurrected 3 days later, only to discover people have totally misinterpreted everything I've said and done. |
#2971: | On my bucket list: Listen to an entire country song from start to finish and take its advice to heart. |
#2972: | On my bucket list: Purchase and consume at least two pickled pigs feet from a big jar in a convenience store in some southern state. |
#2973: | On my bucket list: Put my entire life savings into an unregulated investment that a psychic assures me "can't lose." |
#2974: | On my bucket list: Claim in a mass email that I'm a Nigerian banker with a huge sum to dispense if only I can have your bank account number. |
#2975: | On my bucket list: Assure my romantic partner that one little baby won't be any problem at all. |
#2976: | The dog's position is not to question but to obey his current master. It's a simple life based on faith, but where do the masters come from? |
#2977: | Imagine! A "technology corridor" right here in West Virginia! Who'd a thunk it! |
#2978: | Someone needs to explain this to me: what love is and how you know when you're in or out of it. |
#2979: | I can be a defiant punctuator, like putting my period after the quotes in a sentence ending with a "quoted phrase". Some call me a rebel. |
#2980: | That someone can play an instrument does not imply they know anything about music. It only means they can follow someones else's notes. |
#2981: | Youth is a blissful state of having a high-limit credit card and no down payment required. |
#2982: | And I would have gotten away with it, too, if not for those damned meddling kids! |
#2983: | Forget Mars and Venus. You just married a jerk. |
#2984: | New photo album: My youth hostel in Mexico city. http://bit.ly/aEJC3w - $18/night including 2 meals a day and free WiFi. |
#2985: | New Photo Album: The Pyramids of Teotihaucan, Mexico City. http://bit.ly/aVJdeG |
#2986: | The most destructive effect of marriage is the necessity to mute your own growth to match that of your jealous and less talented partner. |
#2987: | The function of advertising is to sell you a social fantasy where use of the product seems perfectly logical. |
#2988: | RT @nytimes Moral Life of Babies http://nyti.ms/91iID8 |
#2989: | @UrbanGhosts Here's some urban decay you may like: http://roamingphotos.com/a?garychurch - Abandoned cathedral in Gary, Indiana. |
#2990: | Trying to explain to my 80-year-old mother how we handled recycling when I was a kid: We just threw the damn thing out! |
#2991: | When girls are touched by boys, they get cooties. Also pregnant. |
#2992: | New photo album from Mexico City: the Zocalo. http://bit.ly/aLImaX - A rally in Mexico's national square. |
#2993: | The most common and pernicious form of censorship is practiced by the individual against himself to protect his own investments. |
#2994: | The "simple life" isn't really simple if it involves a ton of obligations, like mowing the hay, cleaning the barn and feeding the animals. |
#2995: | Photography Rule #1: If you could have got the photo off the internet, then it isn't worth taking yourself. |
#2996: | If you sext my imaginary girlfriend, I'll beat your virtual ass! |
#2997: | The greatest enemy of the individual is his own ego. |
#2998: | My favorite word: "Organic" — something that flows naturally from the unique circumstances and resources that happen to be available to you. |
#2999: | A "jerk" is not merely an idiot but a vain and humorless idiot who blames others for his own defects. |
#3000: | On my bucket list: Do some serious shopping at Bed, Bath & Beyond. |