[Patrick Turner]

Flipper wrote very little content, then posted a monumental amount of
tedious crap he didn't write, and which I sure didn't write, and which
nobody could de-cypher.


B.S.

BTW, no need to tell me where, *its another boooring story.

Then don't ask.

So I have a few things which he and everyone else should consider
instead.....

1. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is
absolutely fatal.
2. A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
3. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
4. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence
without civilization in between.
5. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of
imagination.
6. Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often
convincing.
7. Biography lends to death a new terror.
8. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter
it every six months.
9. I am not young enough to know everything.
10. I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his
ability.
11. I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and
took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. [Note:
remember Top 10 tips for great writing?
12. Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
13. It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless
information.
14. Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by
reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some
perfectly uninteresting event.
15. One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
16. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
17. Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking
others to live as one wishes to live.
18. The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never
any use to oneself.
19. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked
about.
20. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
21. To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the
first requisites of sanity.
22. Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
23. The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness
of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling
that I have always cultivated.
24. I don’t play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play
with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment
is my forte. I keep science for Life.
25. When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
26. Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
27. My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.
28. I can resist anything but temptation.
29. Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
30. Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
31. Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
32. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
33. What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the
value of nothing.
34. Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only
what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.
35. We have really everything in common with America nowadays except,
of course, language.
36. The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except
genius.
37. The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
38. Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of
women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice,
remained thirty-five for years.
39. I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no
principles better than anything else in the world.
40. I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Oscar also mentioned that life was far to short to ever be really
serious.

Patrick Turner.