david strasser

Sunday, June 15, 2025

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man’s without a shirt.
—John Heywood

Nobody ever had a rainbow baby—until he had the rain.
—Jim Croce

I'd rather die while I'm livin' than live while I'm dead.
—Jimmy Buffett

Life itself is a bubble and a scepticism, and a sleep within a sleep.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

—Epicurus