"The sea complains
upon a thousand shores."
Alexander Smith

"I have learned
the difference between
a cactus
and a caucus.
On a cactus,
the pricks
are on the outside."
Mo Udall

"Let us
be grateful
to people who
make us happy;
they are
the charming gardeners
who make
our souls blossom."
Marcel Proust

"No good fish
goes anywhere
without a porpoise."
Lewis Carroll

"A flower falls,
even though
we love it;
and a weed grows,
even though
we do not love it."
Dogen Zenji

"The reader of these Memoirs
will discover that
I never had
any fixed aim
before my eyes,
and that my system,
if it can be called a system,
has been to
glide away unconcernedly
on the stream of life,
trusting to the wind
wherever it led."
Giacomo Casanova

GULL

"It is a far, far better thing
to have a firm anchor in nonsense
than to put out
on the troubled seas of thought."
John Kenneth Galbraith