Scrapropos

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee; it is the intelligent beverage.

- Sydney Smith

Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.

– Paul Kurtz

What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
— Samuel Beckett, “Enough,” in Six Residua (1978)

In every age “the good old days” were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
– Brooks Atkinson, Once Around The Sun (1951)

It is not by the sword or the spear, by soldiers or by armed force that truth is to be promoted, but by counsel and gentle persuasion.
– Athanasius

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

– Isaac Asimov (attributed)

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Coffee is real good when you drink it it gives you time to think. It’s a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.

- Gertrude Stein

He is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

–  Thomas Jefferson

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
- David Richerby

My birthday!–what a different sound
That word had in my youthful ears;
And how each time the day comes round,
Less and less white its mark appears.
- Thomas Moore

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head
together and your body starts falling apart.
- Caryn Leschen

Thirty five is a very attractive age;
London society is full of women who have of their own
free choice remained thirty-five for years.

- Oscar Wilde

We know we’re getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.

~Author Unknown

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.

~Author Unknown

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s
birthday but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
- Mark Twain

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Inside every older person is a younger person -
wondering what the hell happened.

- Cora Harvey Armstrong

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Coffee has two virtues. It is wet and it is warm.

- Old Dutch saying.