Autor: pgurris
Quote of the Day
„Everyone must have two pockets, so that he can reach into the one or the other, according to his needs. In his right pocket are to be the words: ‚For my sake was the world created,‘ and in his left: ‚I am earth and ashes.'“
– Rabbi Bunam of Pzhysha
Quote of the Day
„Someone saw Nasrudin searching for something on the ground.
‚What have you lost, Mulla?‘ he asked. ‚My key,‘ said the Mulla. So they both went down on their knees and looked for it.
After a time the other man asked: ‚Where exactly did you drop it?‘
‚In my own house.‘
‚Then why are you looking here?‘
‚There is more light here than inside my own house.'“
– Idries Shah (The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin)
Quote of the Day
“ ‚You can argue for so long with arthritis, but it’s going to have the last word in the end. Look at these finger joints!‘
‚They appear,‘ said George mildly, ‚to be retaining a very fine grip on that whisky glass, if I may say so.‘
‚You may! When I lose that knack, they’ll be practising the anthem for my funeral.‘
– Ellis Peters (Rainbow’s End)
Quote of the Day
„…and Mary married a Puddletown cobbler, John Antell, a man with radical views who had also taught himself Latin, Greek and Hebrew but could not put them to any use or organize his life in any satisfactory way.“
– Claire Tomalin (Thomas Hardy – The Time-Torn Man)
Poem of the Day
Oligarchen, Oligarchen
Während wir im Garten schnarchen
Kommen die guten Oligarchen
Und die bösen Oligarchen
Wie aus nem schlechten Marchen
Mutter, wie werd ich Oligarch?
Ach, mein Kind, das wäre doch arch.
Werde lieber Patriarch
Von der orthodoxen Kirche
Die trinken auch mal Birche
Und sind nich so zum Firche…
Es war ein kleiner Oligar
Ein süßes Oligarchen
Der liebte mich ein ganzes Jahr
Mit Haut und auch mit Haarchen