Paraprosdokians

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough. - Mark Twain

I like to think of myself as a Natural Disaster. If you really piss me off, Naturally there will be Disaster. - Unknown 

I love everybody. Some I love to be around, some I love to avoid, and others I’d love to punch in the face! - Unknown

I try to avoid things that make me fat, like scales, mirrors and photographs. - Unknown

I was going to quit all my bad habits. I really was! But then it occurred to me that no one likes a quitter! - Unknown

I would like to apologize to anyone I have not offended. Please be patient. I will get to you shortly. - Unknown

I’m great in bed. I can sleep for days. - Unknown

If you like someone, set them free. If they come back, it means nobody liked them. Set them free again. - Unknown

If you like someone, set them free. If they come back, it means nobody liked them. Set them free again. - Unknown

The Disabled Men

The disabled men who act as each other’s arms and eyes.

By Kathleen Hawkins

BBC News, Ouch

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-ouch-32315809

Quote Worthy

No matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all. Integrity is everything. - Unknown

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it. - Unknown

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. - Rollo May

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. - Maya Angelou

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together. - Marcus Aurelius

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyl

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. - Robert Ingersoll

When the cause of the disease is removed, the body becomes a self-healing entity. - Norman Ford 

Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining. - Teddy Roosevelt

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. - Unknown

People don't chane; they just reveal who they are. - Unknown

The more laws, the less justice. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. - Unknown

Humorous Quotes

Quotes which are funny, ironical, quirky, some of which are also profoundly true.

When a fellow says, “It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,” it’s the money. - Kin Hubbard

When a jockey retires, he becomes just another little man. - Eddie Arcaro

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. - Benjamin Disraeli

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. - John Ruskin

When a man marries a woman, they become one; The trouble starts when they try to decide which one. - Unknown

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife. - Prince Philip

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. - R. C. Sherriff

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. - Sacha Guitry

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’ - Don Marquis

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can. - Diogenes

When Eve upon the first of Men, the apple pressed with specious cant, Oh! What a thousand pities then that Adam was not Adamant. - Thomas Hood

When I came back to Dublin I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. - Brendan Behan

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. - Marcel Achard

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people. - Seneca

Asia’s City-statesman

An article from the Economist

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21647265-founder-singapore-who-died-march-23rd-turned-island-economic-success?frsc=dg%7cc

Quote Worthy

Don’t make promise when you are in joy. Don’t reply when you are sad. Don’t make decision when you are angry. Think twice, act wise. - Unknown

Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge. - Tom Peters

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. - Stephen Ambrose

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as wind blows out candles and fans fire. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit. - Unknown

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. - Gertrude Stein

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. - Unknown

Some praise at morning what they blame at night, But always think the last opinion right. - Alexander Pope

It is better to lose your Ego to the one you Love, than to lose the one you LOVE  because of Ego. - John Keats

The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose. - Rich Sherman

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. - Sydney Smith

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse. - Seneca

My Artwork

Some of my artwork from days gone by. These are pencil sketches. You might know some of the personalities depicted in the portraits.

Paraprosdokans

A good wife always forgives her husband when she is wrong. - Rodney Dangerfield

A recent study has found that women who carry a little extra weight live longer than the men who mention it. - Unknown

Alcohol does not make you fat! It makes you lean … against tables, chairs, floors, walls ... - Unknown

Don’t be afraid of a few extra pounds. Fat people are harder to kidnap. - Unknown

Don’t break someone’s heart, they have only one. Break their bones, they have 206 of them. - Unknown

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children. - Mark Twain

Forget about the past, you can’t change it. Forget about the future, you can’t predict it. Forget about the present, I didn’t buy you one. - Unknown

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don’t like? - Jean Cocteau

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius, and we're sceptical. - Arthur C Clarke

I finally figured out what I want to be when I get older … Younger! - Unknown

Garlic

Why You Should Eat Garlic On An Empty Stomach

http://positivemed.com/2015/04/02/why-you-should-eat-garlic-on-an-empty-stomach

Quote Worthy

Dress like a bum and you act like a bum. Dress like a gentleman and you act like a gentleman. Clothes create an impression you must live up to. - Unknown

Be not be too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods. - Seneca

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately. - Russell L. Ackoff

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. - Arnold Bennett

If you want a different result, do things differently; and if you want better results, improve the ways of doing things. - Unknown

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time. - Richard Cecil

We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited ourselves? - Unknown

Never chase love, affection or attention. If it’s not given freely by another person, it isn’t worth having. - Unknown

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. - Red Auerbach

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society. - Ruth Nanda Anshen

What a man dislikes in his superiors, let him not display in the treatment of his inferiors. - Tsang Sin

The diver only discovers pearls because of the weights which hold him submerged. - Richter

Humorous Quotes

Quotes which are funny, ironical, quirky, some of which are also profoundly true.

We’re shy exhibitionists. - Geena Davis

Well the trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it. - Unknown

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. - Arnold Bennett

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room. - Lisa Alther

What a terrible time people have trying to have a good time. - Unknown

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. - Jane Austen

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. - Richard Harkness

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed? - Gerald Barzan

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? - Ursula K. Le Guin

What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies. - Gerry Spence

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. - Oscar Levant

What was Watergate? A little bugging! - Richard Nixon

What you are speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you are saying. - Unknown

What’s all this fuss about fathers being present at the birth of their children? The way events are shaping, they’ll be lucky to be present at the conception. - George H. Davies

What’s the three words you never want to hear while making love? “Honey, I'm home”. - Ken Hammond

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. - Collis P. Huntingdon

Life - Quotes

There’s so much more to life than finding someone who will want you, or being sad over someone who doesn’t. There’s a lot of wonderful time to be spent discovering yourself without hoping someone will fall in love with you along the way, and it doesn’t need to be painful or empty. You need to fill yourself up with love. Not anyone else. Become a whole being on your own. Go on adventures, sit in a coffee shop on your own, dress up for yourself, give to others, smile a lot. Live for yourself and be happy on your own. It isn’t any less beautiful, I promise. - Emery Allen

Life, just like the stars, the planets and the galaxies, is just a temporary structure on the long road from order to disorder. But that doesn’t make us insignificant, because we are the cosmos made conscious. Life is the means by which the universe understands itself. And for me, our true significance lies in our ability to understand and explore this beautiful universe. - Unknown

The saddest thing in the world is a person who has given-up on life; whose fire has been extinguished. Just remember that as long as you are alive the animating spark of greatness is still within you and can be rekindled. it's never too late! As long as there is life there is hope. - Bryant McGill 

Quote Worthy

Work for a cause, not applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don’t strive to make your presence noticed just make your absence felt. - Unknown

Showing faith and trust in someone who is shunned by others will often gain you a loyal friend who has faith and trust in you. - Unknown

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. - Thomas Carlyle

Always be compassionate, and always be kind. You never know what kind of pain someone may be enduring. - Unknown

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. - Samuel Johnson

A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others. - Dr. Joseph Collins

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. - Benjamin Franklin

Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements. - H. S. M. Burns

Never lie to someone who trusts  you, and never trust someone who lies to you. - Unknown

Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find. - Wayne Dyer

Instead of living in the shadows of yesterday, walk in the light of today. - Ziglar

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul of fire. - Ferdinand Foch

Learn what is true in order to do what is right. - Thomas Huxley

Scenes of Old Singapore

 Singapore Street

 Singapore River

 Clifford Pier 

 Raffles Hotel

 The War Memorial

 Stamford Road

 Parliament House

 Cathy Building

General Post Office

Singapore River

Quote Worthy

Give credit where credit is due – don’t suddenly forget all the good points somebody has, upon discovering one of their bad points! - Unknown

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. - Arnold Bennett

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Unknown

When you ask people to do something, be sure to also tell them why if you can. It’s well worth the effort. - Unknown

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee. - Napoleon Hill

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! - Logan Smith

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. - Unknown

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. - Edward Abbey

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible. - Socrates

Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love. - Tom Hannah

Never leave hold of what you've got until you've got hold of something else. - Donald Herzberg

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold. - Aristotle

Coffee

More on the Pros and Cons of Coffee. At the end of the day, I guess if you moderate your consumption, you will be all right. 

This is what 3+ cups of coffee a day do to your liver

http://buynongmoseeds.com/this-is-what-3-cups-of-coffee-a-day-do-to-your-liver/

Coffee May Protect the Liver

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/coffee-may-protect-the-liver/?_r=0

Heavy Coffee Drinkers Beware: New Study Shows It Could Shorten Your Life

http://www.thejournal.ie/coffee-study-shorten-life-1041127-Aug2013/

3 to 5 Cups of Coffee a Day May Lower Risk of Heart Attacks 

http://www.livescience.com/50012-coffee-heart-attack-risk.html

8 True Benefits of Drinking Coffee You Didn’t Know About

http://myscienceacademy.org/2015/02/18/8-true-benefits-of-drinking-coffee-you-didnt-know-about/

Quote Worthy

There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything  is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself. - Miyamoto

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. - Cecil B. Demille

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem. - Mahatma Gandhi

Each heart holds some pain, only the way of expression is different. Some hide it in their eyes, while others hide it in their smiles. - Unknown 

Remember this – that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. - Marcus Aurelius

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. - Pliny

Claim your adulthood. Don't be defined by what you didn't know or didn't do. You're deciding your life right now. - Meg Jay

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. - Aristotle

Never lie to someone who trusts you, and never trust someone who lies to you. - Unknown

Instead of living in the shadows of yesterday, walk in the light of today. - Ziglar

Humorous Quotes

Quotes which are funny, ironical, quirky, some of which are also profoundly true.

We all have our 'good old days' tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in daydreams like cats to favorite armchairs. - Brian Carter

We are all born mad. Some remain so. - Samuel Beckett

We are all failures – at least, all the best of us are. - J. M. Barrie

We are all manufacturers – making good, making trouble or making excuses. - H. V. Adolt 

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavours and furniture polish is made from real lemons. - Alfred E. Newman

We are not at war. We are in armed conflict. - Anon

We can’t all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure. - Keith Davis

We do not inherit our expressions; they are the signature of the years. - Unknown

We don't have professional burglars here. We have opportunists. - Gerald Cvetko

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. -Aesop

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. - Jane Austen

We must all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

We two are to ourselves a crowd. - Ovid

We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely. - William S. Gilbert

We'd all vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate. - Will Rogers

Remembering Lee Kuan Yew

Photo taken from People's Action Party post.

Do not go gentle into that Good Night on Exposure

 https://brown.exposure.co/do-not-go-gentle-into-that-good-night

The UK can learn a lot from Lee Kuan Yew and Singapore

http://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2015/apr/04/uk-learn-former-colony-singapore-lee-kuan-yew?CMP=share_btn_fb

Four Warning Signs That Warn You, That Your Body Lacks Water

Four Warning Signs That Warn You, That Your Body Lacks Water

Water makes up over 2/3 of our body, but all too often we replace water with other beverages and forget to drink enough of it. But, the truth is when you begin to feel thirsty you are already dehydrated. Think about how many times do you reach for a beverage during the day to quench a thirst?

When you are dehydrated, your body is below the required limit for the normal functioning of the body. Don’t wait to become thirsty to reach for the water, when these signs hit pick it up and drink some water!

Fatigue

There are many things that lead to fatigue, but if you feel tired during the day it could be because you reach for the caffeine to often and not for the water enough. First thing in the morning have a glass of lukewarm water; it helps to wake you up better than coffee, and it will wake up the liver and digestive system as well.

Dry Skin

Chances are if you are dry on the outside, you are running dry on the inside as well. Don’t use lotions and cream to cover up the problem, have some water instead.

Constipation

Water helps to lubricate the digestive tract; it also helps to keep the moisture inside the intestines. When you are not consuming enough water, you will more than likely have problems with bowel function.

Headaches

Headaches are a sign that you need water, so when you get one skip the chemicals and down some water.

This article is taken from the site OrganicHEALTH.

http://organichealth.co/four-warning-signs-that-warn-you-that-your-body-lacks-water/

Read also why drinking ice-water is bad for you

http://buynongmoseeds.com/why-you-should-never-drink-iced-water/

And another one from positivemed.com

Benefits of Drinking Water on an Empty Stomach

http://positivemed.com/2013/07/19/benefits-of-drinking-water-on-an-empty-stomach/

Quote Worthy

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or an enemy, must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves. - Aesop

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old. - James Garfield 

When a man’s acts are honest and just, it is hard to know if they result from righteousness or cleverness. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Always appreciate what you have. There is always someone out there who wishes that they had what you have. - Unknown

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Well-being is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself. - Citium Zeno

Do not tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you. - Unknown

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. - Unknown

The hardest test in life is the patience to wait for the right moment. - Unknown

Knowledge is the one good; and ignorance is the one evil. - Socrates

Stolen kisses are always sweetest. - James Henry Leigh Hunt

Originality is undetected plagiarism. - William R. Inge

No one has ever become poor by giving. - Anne Frank

Quotes - Spiritual

The wonderful thing to understand here is that the energy that you radiate or send out attracts other situations, events, persons, etc. which are in harmony with your internal energy field. - Unknown

We are all visitors to this place. We are just passing through, our purpose is to observe, learn, grow and love and then we return home. - Unknown

The perfect man has no self; the spiritual man has no achievement; the sage has no name. - Chuang Tzu

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. - Eden Phillpotts

Mindfulness means being awake. it means knowing what you are doing. - Jon Kabat Zinn

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. - Marcus Aurelius

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. - Emily Dickinson

If you have truly attained wholeness, everything will flock to you. - Lao Tzu

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. - Shakti Gawain

Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose. - Jedi Master Yoda

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. C.S. Lewis

Paradise in snot a place, it's a state of consciousness. - Sri Chinmoy

Quote Worthy

To attain emotional maturity, each of us must learn to develop two critical capacities: the ability to live with uncertainty and the ability to delay immediate gratification in favour of long-range goals. - Aaron Stern

View everything you hear with open-minded examination. Be open-minded enough to consider it without prejudice, and analytical enough to research and test its integrity. - Denis Waitley

Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality. - Anthony Robins

Stress is the body’s nonspecific response to any demand placed on it, whether that demand is pleasant or not. - Dr. Selye

Don't be afraid to do something just because you're scared of what people are going to say about you. People will judge you no matter what. - Unknown 

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. - Unknown

Letting go doesn't mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be. - Unknown

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not. - Denis Waitley

Crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind. - Unknown

Expectation is the root of all heartache. - William Shakespeare

Two monologues do not make a dialogue. - Jeff Daly

If you don't ask, you don't get.  - Mahatma Gandhi

Humorous Quotes

Quotes which are funny, ironical, quirky, some of which are also profoundly true.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde

To make a long story short, there’s nothing like having a boss walk in. - Doris Lilly

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. - Mark Twain

Today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. - Thomas Szasz

Too many couples marry for better or for worse, but not for good. - Unknown

Trouble in marriage often starts when a man gets so busy earning his salt that he forgets his sugar. - Unknown

True friends stab you in the front. - Oscar Wilde

True patriots we; for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good. - George Barrington

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. - H. L. Mencken

Vacations should always be just long enough for your boss to miss you, but not so long he finds out he can really do quite well without you. - Unknown

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. - Robert Hutchinson

Visits always give pleasure: if not on arrival, then on the departure. - Edouard Le Berquier

Vote ... the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. - Ambrose Bierce

Watching football is like watching pornography. There’s plenty of action, and I can’t take my eyes off it, but when it’s over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it. - Luke Salisbury

Quote Worthy

Man can learn a lot from fishing. When the fishes are biting, no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered. - Unknown

Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good. - Aristotle

If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. - Unknown

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. - Joseph Addison

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are. - Josh Billings

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. - Unknown

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. - St. Ambrose

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep. - Henry Adams

Few love to hear the sins they love to act. - William Shakespeare

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. - Helen Keller

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. - Joan Baez

Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors. - African Proverb

Never look a gift horse in the mouth. - St Jerome