I’ve been told to lighten up with these weekly rants. I hear and obey:

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Fortune favors the lucky.

— Chinese fortune cookie

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She taught us the joy of shame, and the shame of joy.

— Epitaph for Maude Flanders on The Simpsons

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On life’s highway, don’t forget to stop and eat the roses.

— Gary Larsen, Far Side cartoon, robed guru cow talking to student cow

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To a dog, every day is Saturday.

— Herb Caen 

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Paint the mandala and control your stress.

Mandala: N.Manytchkine, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.

— Lane Kirkland

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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for the love of it, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for the money.

— Molière

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For you to be a successful writer, sacrifices must be made. It’s better that they are made by others. Failing that, you’ll have to make them yourself.

— Rita Mae Brown

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Almost any misfortune is better than a worse one.

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Codependent: Someone who, when hit by a bus, sees someone else’s life flash by.

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There are more things in heaven and earth than almost anyplace else.

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Time heals all non-fatal wounds.

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“Hey Siri, why don’t my relationships work out?” “This is Alexa.”

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Fun fact: Women spend more time wondering what men are thinking than men spend actually thinking.

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UK, Canada, South America, Europe, Russia, China, Japan, Australia, Africa: Metric system

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USA: “Asteroid the size of 18 walruses to pass Earth on Sunday”

— NASA, May 20, 2023

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Amazing how close that asteroid came to hitting the visitor center.

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I’m going to work on being less condescending. (Condescending means to talk down to people.)

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The physicists Werner Heisenberg and Paul Dirac were opposites, Heisenberg being very social and Dirac introverted. The two were on a trip to Japan for a conference, and Heisenberg used to dance with the young girls on the ship before dinners while Dirac watched.

One time, Dirac asked, “Heisenberg, why do you dance?” “When there were nice girls I like dancing with them,” he replied.

Dirac fell into deep thought and after about fifteen minutes, asked, “Heisenberg, how do you know beforehand that the girls are nice?”

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“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”

— Mae West of her screen villain Ace Lamont in Belle of the Nineties, 1934