After Chairman Mao’s 1950s character writing reforms for Chinese characters in the People’s Republic of China, there was a 12.5% reduction in stroke count for the 2000 most popular characters.

“Fashion is that by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal." (Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am the Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. When they are again become sober they have drawn from the sea all that they brought with them, all that they can bring with them to dry land. I have not a single friend, I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to other artists; I associate with Him without fear; I have always recognized and understood Him and have no fear for my music—it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must be freed by it from all the miseries which the others drag about with themselves." (Ludwig van Beethoven)

“There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.” (Anecdotally, apocryphally and falsely attributed to Andrew Jackson)

It's hard to put the coke spoon to your nose when you're doing the Downward-facing Dog.

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” (Michelangelo Buonarroti)

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” (Adam Smith)

"A kiss that is never tasted forever and ever is wasted." (from the 1934 song "For All We Know" with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis, music by J. Fred Coots, and sung by Billie Holiday on 1958's Lady in Satin, her penultimate record)

If Joe Rogan was named Josh Rogan, the inverse of his name would be Rogan Josh.

“I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.” (Cicero)

Slow is smooth.

Smooth is fast.

(Navy SEALs mantra)

“I don’t want anyone to challenge my right to sound completely mad.” (Duke Ellington)

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.” (William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying)

"Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet." (Anonymous)

“Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby)

Wagger, n. The agreeable swaying a dog makes when it walks; akin to ‘swagger’ for humans.

“That dog’s got real wagger “

“Capital is past savings accumulated for future production.” (Jackson Martindell)

“This I regard as history’s highest function: to let no action be uncommunicated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.” (Tacitus)

“Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave.” (Napoleon Bonaparte)

"Death is the last and best reward for a life well lived." (Bob Weir)