Mongo Like Pretty Words

Quotes that Mongo like:

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with no sugar cane for miles, and still be livin' on a plantation. -Billy Holiday

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -Steinbeck

You're pretty uptight for a naked chick. -Homer to Marge

I wouldn't recommend alcohol and drugs to anyone. But they have always worked for me. -Hunter S. Thompson

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. -George Bernard Shaw

The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and lightning bug. -Mark Twain

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window. -Stephen King

The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. –Dave Barry

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. -Albert Camus

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -Mark Twain

He who kisses joy as it flies by, will live in eternity's sunrise. -William Blake

A Saturday night spent in a good crowded bar is like a whole century of history in microcosm. The evening divides itself up into eras and events. -Robert Girardi, from Madeleine's Ghost

After eating, dancing, and making love, a man should use the rest of his time to try to unravel what was behind the appearance of things, since the rambling universe wore a mask. You must know how to read the books of man and the book of the universe. -Grandfathers advice to Atapari, Little Boys Come From The Stars, by Emmanuel Dongala.

This seems crazy. Yes it is. But crazy is all you got. -Shallow Hal

As with many lonely children, his problem was not solitude itself but that he was never left free to enjoy it. -The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon

Bidden or not bidden, God is present. -Carl Jung

If you wish to improve, be content to look foolish and stupid. -Pictus, Greek philosopher.

They no kitty kitty, they no beach, they no car. -overheard on ferry dock

It is only after we accept the absurdity of the world that we can begin to write a manual of happiness. -Albert Camus

Each day befriend a single fear & the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form a morass of vague anxiety that rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by becoming fearless but by the daily practice of courage. -Author Sam Keen, writing about his experiences learning the trapeze

I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon. -From Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden

Turkish Proverb: Coffee should be strong as hell, black as death, and sweet as love.

I like nonsense - it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities. -Dr Seuss

Said about Dean Martin: "Menefreghista: Italian for one who simply does not give a fuck."

Keep looking at the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you. -Rumi

As long as you're not afraid nobody can run your life for you. Remember that. Hell is being scared of things. Heaven is refusing to be scared. I mean that literally. . .Now you know my religion. -Boomer from "Skinny Leqs and All," by Tom Robbins

From Fight Club:
-How's that working out for you? What? Being clever? Great. Keep it up then.
-Why do guys like us know what a duvet is? Is this essential in the hunter/gatherer sense of the word? No.
-We are all part of the same compost heap.
-I am Jack's broken heart.
-Two sides? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!
-Interesting. Where you going with this, Ikea Boy?

From Net of Jewels, by Ellen Gilchrist:
-I was getting deeply tragically bored and there is nothing in the world as dangerous as a bored Celt.

-The higher the intelligence the slower the rate of maturation.

-He was on his way to power and money and all the things fear swears will end fear. Fear lies, fear always breaks its promises. Fear feeds on fear and on the things we think will end it. Nothing can conquer fear but love.