![IMAGE: "The earth", he said, "has a skin; and this skin has diseases. One of these diseases is called, for example, 'humanity'." [The earth, said he, hath a skin; and this skin hath diseases. One of these diseases, for example, is called "man."]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/earth-1149733_640-200x133.jpg)
“The earth”, he said, “has a skin; and this skin has diseases. One of these diseases is called, for example, ‘humanity’.” [The earth, said he, hath a skin; and this skin hath diseases. One of these diseases, for example, is… More »
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832): Elective Affinities (Image by Wolf-Henry Dreblow from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. – Robert Frost (1874 – 1963) (Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine… More »
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Robert Frost (1874 – 1963) (Image by suju-foto from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world. – George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) (Image by djedj from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. – George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) (Image by André Beer from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good… More »
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) (Image by Alexandra ❤️A life without animals is not worth living❤️ from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from… More »
![IMAGE: Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times. [Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/mark-twain-2914114_640_addict-84430_640-200x133.jpg)
Quitting smoking is easy, I’ve done it hundreds of times. [Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.] – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) (Image by dorze from Pixabay)… More »
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) (Image by Mystic Art Design from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) 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)
