In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself.
These opening lines I have remembered for the last 7 odd years. They had a nice rhyme, rhythm and they stuck in my head. And, I had studied that book so many times. So many. Never really thinking too much.
No wonder he has found appeal across the centuries. He appeals at a basic human level. It's not about the story, it's not about the location, it's not about the history. It's about the people. People don't change.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Mia: Don't you hate that?
Vincent: What?
Mia: Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
Vincent: I don't know. That's a good question.
14 comments:
my my my ... The best of the best ..
.... Shakespeare himself!!!!
Often marvelled at him for such an *insight* into human behaviour...English may have changed since his time, but intrinsic human values has remained the same... Yups I agree - People dont change!!!
Lemme share a few words thats stuck with me, inspires me and keeps me going ...
"I wandered lonely as a cloud,
That floats on high o'er vales and hills...
....
For oft when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude
and then my heart with pleasure fills
and dances with the daffodils...
Thats opening and closing lines of the poem "Daffodils" by William Wordsworth. For me these daffodils are SYMBOLIC; and may represnt any pleasnt moment, that brings a
S-M-I-L-E ...
My personal favourite is the solitary reaper, singing her melancholy strain, and all the world may be consumed in madness, yet all I can hear is that haunting refrain.
[prashant]Hmm..Where is that from? What does it mean?
[intern] reply coming up!
1 AM :
You are afflicted by the blogging virus
BTW people do change dont they ( i know that does depend on HOW you define people ... but they do change rite ? )
the line i cant get out of my head is
The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep
by robert frost
Yikes! Don't tell me you don't remember the Wordsworth poem about the Solitary Reaper? Of course, those words were but my own opinion / interpretation ; it's not the exact words that captivate me, as much as the ideas, the abstract beauty behind them. My favourite sections of the poem itself:
..Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain..
..I listen'd, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more..
Btw that particular Frost poem (it has a horrendously long and confusing title) happens to be my second favourite!! I even remember, when I was burning the midnight (or near-dawn, even!) oil for doing my thesis, my befuddled mind would shape those words into having *deadlines* to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. Thanks Jigar, for reminding me of that lovely poem.
What a beautiful selection of poems...
I've loved all of them...
I wanna put down 2 more of my favourite songs:
(1) Thats' Life: Frank Sinatra
That's life, that's what all the people say.
You're riding high in April,
Shot down in May
But I know I'm gonna change that tune,
When I'm back on top, back on top in June.
I said that's life, and as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks,
Stompin' on a dream
But I don't let it, let it get me down,
'Cause this fine ol' world it keeps spinning around
I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate,
A poet, a pawn and a king.
I've been up and down and over and out
And I know one thing:
Each time I find myself, flat on my face,
I pick myself up and get back in the race.
That's life ......
(2) This one is "THE" song I love::
My WAY : Frank Sinatra
I’ve loved, I’ve laughed and cried.
I’ve had my fill; my share of losing.
And now, as tears subside,
I find it all so amusing.
To think I did all that;
And may I say - not in a shy way,
No, oh no not me,
I did it MY WAY....
For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows -
And did it MY WAY!!!!
*Intern
hmmmm ramani, I forgot putting my nick in the very first post,
so where's my First Prize?
[intern] I think that's one of his most famous ones.
[jigar] I would guess people change all the time. You are not going to be the same 5 years from now. 10 years from now. I think Person = Sum of Experinces. So, when your experices change you change.
The Robert Frost poem is an all time favorite of mine. There is a story associated with this poem and Jawaharlal Nehru. He always had those lines on his desk.
Nehru served as the prime minister of India for these 18 years consecutively. Nehru died on 27 May 1964. India's heavy defeat in the war with China, which dimmed his public stature greatly, and affected him greatly both physically and mentally: he felt betrayed by the Chinese, whom he had trusted implicitly and supported in many fora. He died shortly thereafter, having achieved much, yet still - according to a quote from Robert Frost which he had always kept on his office desk - feeling he had so much more left to do. He was laid to rest at the Shantivan.
Lifted from Wikipedia.
I think it's called 'Stopping by the woods on a winter evening'.
[prashanth] Hmm..Okay okay don't kill me for not knowing the poem. I have done it before. Just that I couldn't recollect it from the lines.
" singing her melancholy strain, and all the world may be consumed in madness, yet all I can hear is that haunting refrain"
I thought these were the words to a poem!! These words remind me of a reaper and I had no idea which one (poem, not reaper :D :D). How was I supposed to know it was SP making up lines on the fly.
[intern] Hmm..Those technically are song lyrics not poems. He he. Anyway, Frank Sinatra had a penchant for love songs. The first one is really nice.
That's life, that's what all the people say.
You're riding high in April,
Shot down in May
But I know I'm gonna change that tune,
When I'm back on top, back on top in June.
Each time I find myself, flat on my face,
I pick myself up and get back in the race.
I am considering putting it up as my signature. I think it sums up my existence quite well.
Sinatra Songs ... now we are getting really senti
"Those technically are song lyrics not poems. He he Anyway ..."
I know I know....
But, you've been warned about topics being messed up ..
But; to me, some songs sound as poetry..Someone said...
"Lyrics (the good ones) have form, rhythm, wordplay, imagery and often rhyme — all the makings of a poem. It’s hard to deny that a song is really a musical poem..."
So,
- without a guitar's strum, dont these words flow like a poem??? Or..
- these words "sung" with guitar, cant be called poems as well???
*Intern
btw, Im glad you liked the song, "Thats Life" and of course "My Way" maybe called Sinatra's Signature-Song...
Here's a song, more like a poem...
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning,
On an ever spinning wheel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the "Windmills of your mind"....
- Sting / Dusty Springfields/ Nana Mouskouri
- Soundtrack: The Thomas Crown Affair
This song/poem full of similie n metaphor;.. with mind being compared to windmill...
Love these lines.......
"Keys that jingle in your pocket
Words that jangle in your head
.......
Lovers walk along the shore
leave their footprints in the sand
is the sound of distant drumming
Just the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway
Or the fragment of this song
Half-remembered names and faces
but to whom do they belong?
.....
The lyrics were made to portray the uneasiness and restlessness in the minds of the character; a pilot, who seems unfrazed flying the glidor, but his mind is full of anxiety...
*Intern
Just enjoy the lyrics;
make your own sense ....
and if it makes no sense: JUST FINE ....
[Jigar] Hmm..actually most Sinatra songs aren't senti. They are more the 60's sound. The lighthearted musical type sound.
[Intern] I like both the pieces you put up. I was listening to Alanis Morisette a little while back. Her lyrics are quite nice.
"Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face"
Her nice is song. It's along the same problems-in-life-keep-coming theme :D :D!
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
— Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken.”
This one is great.
i like this post will gift u my collection of sayings which i have collected over 15 years:
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
This again is a quotation
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
Rene Descartes.
How vain it is to sit down to write
When you have not stood up to live
Henry David Thoreau
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving."
French Proverb
"Men who don't understand women fall into two groups: Bachelors and Husbands."
Jacques Languirand
There are two types of people-- those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
I think, therefore I am.
Rene Descartes.
"Don't think you are, know you are."
Morpheus, The Matrix
"When they've tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years, Then they expect you to pick a career"
John Lennon
The best words ever:
TRUTH IS A PATHLESS
LAND.
J Krishnamurthy
To see a world in a grain of Sand and Heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and infinity in a hour
every good friend was once a stranger
"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."
Denis Waitley
Friday, February 11, 2005 at 3:13 AM
"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul."
- Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
Sunday, January 16, 2005 at 11:29 AM
"Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it."
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Thursday, January 13, 2005 at 10:22 AM
- French Proverb
"My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating."
- Ashleigh Brilliant
Today at 9:18 AM
"It is better to deserve without receiving, than to receive without deserving."
- Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
Thursday, December 16, 2004 at 8:19 AM
There really is no answer is there. No question either. Why are we here? We keep trying to stay alive. What for? Can no one answer that question? Is the only option to have fun while we're here? The mind itself can't answer it's own question. It knows there is no answer, but still can't stop asking. The Eternal Suffer.
"life is ironic.
and beautiful.
and fucked up."
- Nikki Americanos
no, i don't think being in love
means finding someone who can fill that space
with something you don't have
and i don't think it's admiring someone
that has something you haven't found how to have
in your own self
i think being in love becomes
an adult appreciation of difference
and childish playfulness in the pleasures of togetherness
"As the eye needs light to see, so the soul needs labor to comprehend."
- Philo, "Sacrifices of Abel and Cain"
"The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love."
- Heine, English Fragments, 1828
"When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you."
- African Proverb
"The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year."
- Eleanor Farjeon
"The supreme insistence of the universe is that we enter the adventure of creating ourselves."
- Brian Swimme, Physicist
"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."
- George Orwell
"A man's worst enemies can't wish on him what he can think up himself."
- Yiddish Proverb
"Those who wish to sing always find a song."
- Swedish Proverb
"There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles.
'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'"
- William Ralph Inge
"A hero is a man who is afraid to run away."
- English Proverb
Some things have to be believed to be seen."
- Ralph Hodgson
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present."
- Jan Glidewell
Changes are a coming.:
Elvis
"Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thornbush has roses."
- German Proverb
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
- Herm Albright
Something I found in the TOI 9 march 2005
:
A Last Wish
By Asish Kumar Kundu
He was a young man. Short, slim but extremely wellbuilt. Only if you looked closely you would notice the strength in his lean muscles. The sun and the salt of the sea had created this man: he was a typical Telugu fisherman. Always smiling, he knew neither Hindi nor Bengali. He always tried to communicate through his smile.
He had no reason to smile though. His 10-year-old son was admitted with an incurable disease of the muscles — a form of myopathy. The child could not stand or walk; nor sit without support. He was born a healthy child; had started walking and playing normally but slowly developed weakness in his legs. He was diagnosed as suffering from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and was destined to die in a few years. Why did the child smile so much? The father and the son would talk the entire day, smiling as if they had no worries in the world.
As a rehabilitation professional, one of my toughest duties is to pronounce the death sentence on children. A perpetuating dilemma for me is whether to tell the parents that their child was destined to die or not. Many doctors don’t. There was no dilemma here. The father already knew. But why did they smile so much?
A letter reached me from Make-A-Wish Foundation, a voluntary organisation, which tries to fulfil the last wish of dying children. A trip to Europe or just a plane ride or a meeting with Tendulkar perhaps. A noble idea and I decided to convey it to the father. Let the child make a wish.
It was a difficult task as I only knew Hindi and Bengali. But I managed somehow, with sign language mostly. And then I knew I had been able to communicate fairly well because the father broke down. He started sobbing. Like the waves in the sea on a stormy night. It was quite late. I left confused. What had gone wrong?
And then I realised. The father had some hope hidden somewhere in his mind. Make a wish — a last wish — had destroyed all his hopes. After a troubled night I made it a point the next morning to meet the father first. They were not there in the hospital. The nurse on duty told me that the father had left with his son the previous evening on his ‘own risk bond’.
Where are they now? Father and son? Fishing in the sea?
"Examinations are a farce, because even the biggest fool can ask more than the wisest man could know."
The light at the end of the tunnel could be that of a moving train.
The best work never was and never will be done for money. - John Ruskin
know nothing about sex because I was always married."
Zsa Zsa Gabor
"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy." - Tom Clancy
"Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable." Cher
"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
If atheism is a religion, then bald is a hair color.
--Anon.
And I remember what she said to me
How she swore that it never would end
I remember how she held me oh so tight
Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then
Against the wind
We were runnin’ against the wind
We were young and strong, we were runnin’
Against the wind
And the years rolled slowly past
And I found myself alone
Surrounded bv strangers I thought were my friends
I found myself further and further from my home
And I guess I lost my way
There were oh so many roads
I was living to run and running to live
Never worried about paying or even how much I owed
Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time
Breaking all of the rules that would bend
I began to find myself searchin’
Searching for shelter again and again
Against the wind
A little something against the wind
I found myself seeking shelter against the wind
Bob Seger - Against the Wind (Forrest Gump Soundtrack)
Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough ...
... And like a fool who will never see the truth,
I keep thinking something's gonna change...
There's a danger in loving somebody too much,
and it's sad when you know it's your heart you can't trust.
There's a reason why people don't stay who they are...
Baby, sometimes, love just ain't enough...
Looks like we made it
Look how far we've come my baby
We mighta took the long way
We knew we'd get there someday
They said, "I bet they'll never make it"
But just look at us holding on
We're still together still going strong
You're still the one I run to
The one that I belong to
You're still the one I want for life!
..........
A, looking forward to many many many more years of 'us'!
- n
Getting up at nine
A bright sunshine,
A mug full of hot tea ,
as strong as it could be,
lighting the lamp, a small prayer
That silence, as precious and rare,
Rushing for a morning class
The spring flowers, the lovely green grass,
An icecream cone
having it all alone;-)
Few dollars earned
A smile returned,
The long evening walks
Those never ending talks,
A call from a friend
Differences coming to n end,
The corner lamp with its soft glow
A book in hand n places to go,
Thinking about the day in bed
smiling over the things unsaid,
Somebody remembering me far away
is all it takes to make my day..!!
We make ourselves a place apart
Behind light words that tease and flout,
But oh, the agitated hearTill someone really find us out.
'Tis pity if the case require
(Or so we say) that in the end
We speak the literal to inspire
The understanding of a friend.
But so with all, from babes that play
At hid-and-seek to God afar,
So all who hide too well away
Must speak and tell us where they are.
Not all those who wander are lost
I lead my party, he follows his – May 25, taunting PM John Major in Parliament
A young country that wants to be strong can’t be morally neutral about the family – Oct 3, at Labour Party conference
1997
It will be a govt that seeks to restore trust in politics – May 2, first speech in Downing St .
I think most people... think I’m a pretty straight sort of guy and I am – Nov 16, over a donation by F1 boss Ecclestone
1999
The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism
– Sept 28
2000
I don’t ever stop being PM – Apr 9, on not taking paternity leave
2001
Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity – Sept 11, on terror attacks
2002
The document discloses that his (Saddam’s) planning allows WMD to be ready in 45 minutes... – Sept 24, in UK govt dossier on Iraq
2003
I did sit down with them... and explained... it was possible the thing could go against me
– Apr 18, on telling his children he could lose his job over Iraq
2004
The allegation that I... lied... by falsifying intelligence on WMD is the real lie – Jan 28, on reason for Iraq war
“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.”
- Mark Twain
The chance of the bread falling with the butter side down is directly proportional to the value of the carpet.
- Derived from Murphy's Law
"If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it."
Capt. Edward A. Murphy
"Vanity is so secure in the hearts of man that every man wants to be admired; even I who write this, and even you who read this."
- Blaise Pascal
The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action
When nothing else works, read instructions.
“May life grant all that you desire from three lips, those of your lover, the river, and the cup.”
Shah Abbas 1 (Shah Abbas the Great to his wine boy)
There once was a Rabbi who was asked by his students, "Teacher, how could one determine the hour when night ends and day begins?"
One student suggested,"Is it when one can distinguish a sheep from a dog in the distance?"
"No," said the Rabbi.
A second student ventured,"Is it when one can distinguish a date tree from a fig tree in the distance?"
"No," said the Rabbi.
"Please, tell us the answer," the students begged.
"It is when you can look into the face of a stranger and see your sister or brother," said the Rabbi. "Until then, night is still with us."
THE SONG OF PRINCESS ZEB-UN-NISSA IN PRAISE OF HER OWN BEAUTY (daughter of Aurang’ Zeb)
(From the Persian)
When from my cheek I lift my veil,
The roses turn with envy pale,
And from their pierced hearts, rich with pain,
Send forth their fragrance like a wail.
Or if perchance one perfumed tress
Be lowered to the wind's caress,
The honeyed hyacinths complain,
And languish in a sweet distress.
And, when I pause, still groves among,
(Such loveliness is mine) a throng
Of nightingales awake and strain
Their souls into a quivering song.
Translated by Sarojini Naidu, the Nightingale of India
One of 2004's funniest quotes :
"A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing, when world leaders start calling your father."
- Jay Leno
Jon Stewart's best non-political one-liner :
"They always throw around this term 'the liberal elite.' And I kept thinking to myself about the Christian right. What's more elite than believing that only you will go to heaven?"
- Jon Stewart
One of David Letterman's old quotes :
"Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television."
- David Letterman
Its all a matter of perspective..
Real intelligence is like a river…the deeper it is the less noise it makes
'Have u ever stopped to think, and forgotten to start?' =)
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
"Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment." --James Allen
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. -Lou Holtz-
Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.
I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
My reality check bounced.
I don't suffer from stress, I'm a carrier.
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip
Saying you say what you mean is the same as you mean what you say is like saying you see what you eat is the same as you eat what you see
Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. --Will Rogers
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.- John Kenneth Galbraith
You know there is something wrong in the world when the best golfer is a black man, the best rapper is a white man, the French are accusing others of colonization and the Germans dont want to go to war!! - April 2003"
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming -- WOW--What a Ride!"
LIFE is not "A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM"
Nor is it a "TEMPEST"
It is "A COMEDY OF ERRORS"
So live it "AS YOU LIKE IT"
"Booze is the answer. I don't remember the question."
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
Rudyard Kipling
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shadows and miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures."--Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
"To infinity, and beyond!!!" - Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
Life's battles don't always go
to the faster or stronger man,
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.
" You may not be the best that can be, but you definitely can be the best you can be "
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start my friend,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new end." - Carl Bard.
"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to
be." - Abraham Lincoln.
"Tragedy is not when actors cry. Tragedy is when audiences cry."
Frank Capra's immortal observation
What is the difference between girls aged: 8, 18, 28, 38, 48, 58, 68?
At 8 - You take her to bed and tell her a story
At 18 - You tell her a story and take her to bed
At 28 - You don't need to tell her a story to take her to bed.
At 38 - She tells you a story and takes you to bed.
At 48 - You tell her a story to avoid going to bed
At 58 - You stay in bed to avoid her story
At 68 - If you take her to bed, that'll be a story!!
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death by W B Yeats
I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan's poor,
No likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,
Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death.
Thats' Life: Frank Sinatra
That's life, that's what all the people say.
You're riding high in April,
Shot down in May
But I know I'm gonna change that tune,
When I'm back on top, back on top in June.
I said that's life, and as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks,
Stompin' on a dream
But I don't let it, let it get me down,
'Cause this fine ol' world it keeps spinning around
I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate,
A poet, a pawn and a king.
I've been up and down and over and out
And I know one thing:
Each time I find myself, flat on my face,
I pick myself up and get back in the race.
That's life ......
My WAY : Frank Sinatra
I’ve loved, I’ve laughed and cried.
I’ve had my fill; my share of losing.
And now, as tears subside,
I find it all so amusing.
To think I did all that;
And may I say - not in a shy way,
No, oh no not me,
I did it MY WAY....
For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows -
And did it MY WAY!!!!
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
Post a Comment