Occupation: Privateer Birth: November 25, 1577 Death: June 18, 1629
The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist..
Living is a thing you do now or never which do you?.
Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done..
Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest..
The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace..
Those who always know what's best are a universal pest..
True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise..
Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key..
I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I unders….
Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may..
Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different..
Co-existence or no existence..
Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise..
If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit..
The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield..
Everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex..
The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports..
Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by s….
Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it..
Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum..
There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness..