My Facebook feed contains lots of personal updates of the comings and goings of friends and family and, for some unknown reason, several daily missives about the New York Yankees, the New York Giants, The Far Side and other comic panels including Dennis the Menace, lots of product promos, examples of Jewish Humor, and the musings/rantings of political commentator wannabes (like me).
Among the more entertaining postings, many shared by my sister Lee, are aphorisms, several of which I have included here with, I hope, proper attribution:
“Bread is like the sun.
It rises in the yeast
and sets in the waist.”
—Asty Hany
Under a picture of Donald Trump
“Who does not know the truth
is simply a fool …
Yet who knows the truth and calls it a lie
is a criminal.”
—Bertolt Brecht
Under a portrait of a voluptuous woman, circa 1860
“Got my DNA and turns out
I’m 86% Danish Butter Cookie
from the Costco region.”
—La Vie en Rose Arts
“If there’s a hell, it should probably
be filled with people who claimed
faith in Jesus
while trying to strip the sick of care,
the terrified of refuge,
and the vulnerable of protection,
and reveling as if this was a righteous victory.”
—John Pavlovitz
“Happiness is when you realize
your children have turned out
to be good people.”
—Still Moments
“Everyone needs a friend
who they probably shouldn’t be allowed
to sit next to at a serious function.”
—Margaret Quica Alarcon
