With a mind unclouded by karmic detritus Cyril distils the wisdom of the ages into small easily digestable boluses.
With a mind unclouded by karmic detritus Cyril distils the wisdom of the ages into small easily digestable boluses. |
| COLLECTED SAYINGS OF CYRIL |
| "Don't waste words, just jump to conclusions." |
| "Human nature will be the last part of Nature to surrender to man" |
| "Better roughly right than precisely wrong." |
| "Keep it greasy so it'll go down easy." |
| "Stop. Look. Listen." |
| "We see nothing till we truly understand it." |
| "Don't look through the sunshine of today to the clouds of tomorrow." |
| "Suffering is not always sadness, Fortune is not always Joy." |
| "Even a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut." |
| "When you succumb to a dream, you'll wake up with a nightmare." |
| "When the river sinks the rocks are revealed." |
| "Thought is the evasion of feeling." |
| "Computer says no." |
| "The suspense is terrible ..I hope it will last." |
| "I can't relax cos I haven't done a thing ..and I haven't done a thing cos I can't relax." |
| "I wonder where the fire went." |
| "Trust in God, but first tie up your camel." |
| "Death is a process, not an event." |
| " I ate a hotdog - it tasted real good - then I watched a movie from Hollywood." |
| "What soap is to the body, tears are for the soul." |
| "There is no wealth but life." |
| "Against stupidity the very gods themselves struggle in vain." |
| "The danger of terrorism lies not in what it inflicts, but in what it provokes." |
| "Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?" |
| "I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know it would be today." |
| "Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think." |
| "What's the ugliest part of your body? I think it's your mind." |
| "Every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than be well ruled by another." |
| "The brave music of a distant drum" |
| "Twas brillig,and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe.." |
| "Peace is milk. War is acid." |
| "It's like GRODY ...GRODY TO THE MAX ." |
| "To be happy one must be susceptible to illusions, for it is to illusions that we owe the majority of our pleasures." |
| "Knowing your own darkness is the best method of dealing with the darkness of others." |
| "Give up freedom for security and you will have neither." |
| 'Yer canna' have yer pudding if yer dinna' eat yer meat' |
| 'It doesn't work and it never will' |
| 'The healing drum finds it's own rhythm.' |
| 'There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.' |
| 'We're living in a wigglely world.Wiggle.Wiggle.Wiggle.' |
| 'A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist.' |
| "Yer don't believe we're on the eve of destruction". |
| "The silence that is in the starry sky, the sleep that is among the lonely hills." |
| "Help I'm a rock." |
| "There ain't no cure for the summertime blues." |
| "It ain't no use to sit and wonder why...." |
| "The torch of chaos and doubt - this is what the sage steers by." |
| " IT'S THE BLIMP , THE BLIMP , THE MOTHERSHIP." |
| "Rust never sleeps." |
| "I was blinded by the light." |
| "A world of secret hungers, perverting the men who make your laws. Every desire is hidden away, in a drawer in a desk by a naugahyde chair on a rug where they walk and drool, past the girls in the office." |
| "Frugality is freedom." |
| "You are entitled to your own opinions, but not to your own facts." |
| " Waiting for a miracle - but nothing ever happens." |
| "What, without asking hither hurried whence? And, without asking whither hurried hence?." |
| " Depressing - ain't it - really depressing." |
| "...all we have is but a shadow cast by what we've lost." |
| "Whatever you do...love those who love you." |
| "Wot we need is a lower standard of living..and no sport...except snooker.." |
| "If someone blows a raspberry in my ear, I am inclined to blow my mouth organ slightly louder." |
| "Comedy is tragedy plus time." |
| "A dog barks but the caravan passes." |
| "Calm is merely an interval in chaos." |
| " You are what you is - You is what you am - a cow don't make ham..." |
| " Was God the first conspiracy theory?." |
| "The future ain't wot it used to be." |
| "Abandon conceptual systems of problem solving - use gaffer tape." |
| " Unhappiness is part of the spectrum of human experience and not a medical condition". |
| " Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you." |
| " The more you struggle, the more you drown." |
| " Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" |
| " For a drug free rush just stand up quickly when you're not expecting it." |
| " The grasping hand is never full." |
| " Exhale." |
| "Bathe in the milk of the mother goddess." |
| "And at my back, I always hear, Time's winged chariot hurrying near...." |
| "The map is not the territory" |
| "Affluence means effluence." |
| "Power means never having to say you are sorry." |
| " Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he can only do a little." |
| " Who is the potter, pray, and who the pot?." |
| " The race is always won by the camel with the longest nose." |
| " The line between pleasure and pain cannot be measured by means of the brain." |
| " My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" |
| " Unbind your mind there is no time to lick your stamps and paste them in discorporate and we'll begin...WAH WAH!" |
| " Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run." |
| "Now that it is gone, does it matter whether a cow ate it or not?" |
| "When great worlds fall, we marvel and reach for our pens; when tiny worlds fall we are silenced. We live our lives under the shadows of lost love, when reconciliations fail or lie unsought, and each one is a small society, sometimes just of two, with its own language and history, its stories and memories that cannot survive on their own, in the dark. And worst of all, the jokes. Where do they go, when everything else has gone?" |
| "Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes." |
| "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." |
| "Life : sometimes the man is on the saddle, sometimes the saddle is on the man." |
| "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." |
| "Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so." |
| "A good planet is hard to find." |
| "You must stop imagining all this for your own good." |
| " Dream on ..." |
| "Religion and Politics...they're getting me high I need another fix...." |
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