"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?"
Federico Calboli
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
Quote
How agreeable it is to do nothing all day and to rest afterwards.
- French saying quoted in letter from Patrick Leigh Fermor to Deborah Devonshire, 1970.
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this sounds French all right. sounds like French from world war two, whereby we fought all their wars against the Nazi's and liberated their country! (and little did they appreciate us, sorta like the iraquis/muslims nowadays feel towards us infidels......)
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this sounds French all right. sounds like French from world war two, whereby we fought all their wars against the Nazi's and liberated their country! (and little did they appreciate us, sorta like the iraquis/muslims nowadays feel towards us infidels......)
And here I thought that quote was first said by Pooh in the A.A.Milne books!
Jessica's mom likes to say that the only downside to doing nothing is that you can't stop and take a break. Maybe she's not trying hard enough.
I heard a similar saying a few years ago:
The bad thing about being retired is you never get a day off.
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