![IMAGE: 3. Perceiving the Bull. [Catching Sight of the Ox.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Oxherding_pictures_No._3_edit312-200x150.jpg)
3. Perceiving the Bull. [Catching Sight of the Ox.] – Kuòān Shīyuǎn [Kaku-an] (Late 12th century): Ten Bulls [Ten Ox Herding Pictures] / (Bull [Ox] = True self; Bull [Ox] herder = Self seeking true self) / (2. Discovery of… More »
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) (Image by Rob de Roy from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Poverty wants some things, luxury many, avarice all things. – Abraham Cowley (1618 – 67) (Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Poverty dulls the wit. (Image by 177789 from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. (Image by WorldSpectrum from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
![IMAGE: Pudding before praise. [Pudding rather than fame.] / Fair words fill not the belly.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/pudding-791803_640-200x133.jpg)
Pudding before praise. [Pudding rather than fame.] / Fair words fill not the belly. (Image by Karolina Grabowska from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
A politician thinks of the next election — a statesman, of the next generation. – James Freeman Clarke (1810 – 88) More »
Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you’re going to get it. And whatever you get, that’s you, so that’s your story. – Count Basie [William James Basie] (1904 – 84) More »
The play’s the thing / Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king. // – Hamlet — William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616): Hamlet, Act II, Scene II More »
Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword. – Jesus (c.4B.C.? – c.30?) — Bible: “The Gospel According to Matthew” Chapter 26:52 More »
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
