Cryptoquote Spoiler – 02/16/17

“Sometimes I think we’re alone.  Sometimes I think we’re not.  In either case, the thought is staggering.”   —   Source Obscure

(I definitely think we are not alone.  The universe is so immense.  We’re one planet in our solar system.  Our sun is one of more than 200 billion stars in our galaxy – the Milky Way.  And, the Milky Way is only one of 100 billion – and probably more – galaxies in the universe.  So, the odds that we are the only intelligent lifeforms out there is very remote.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 01/10/17

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”   —   Source Obscure

(Emerson, Holmes, Thoreau???  This quote, that you hear at many commencement ceremonies, has no clear author.  Any one of them, or someone else, could have said it.  It’s a little optimistically trite, but it’s a nice motivational ism.  At least for me, it made for a very easy solve.  I am without a print version of the Cryptoquote for the next five days, or so.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 01/02/17

“The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”   —   Source Obscure

(I love quotes where I don’t have to Google the author, or consider the obscure subtext.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 11/16/16

“Life is like photography.  You need the negatives to develop.”   —   Source Obscure

(I don’t know.  Maybe Ansel Adams came up with this, in one of his cornier moments.  😉  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 10/27/16

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”   —   Source Obscure

(I bet it was someone who ran a blog!  Maybe I should start taking credit for all the Source Obscure/Uncertain/Unknown quotes???  Yeah . . . sure, that was Uncle Rave!  LOL!  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 09/13/16

“They don’t care how much you know, unless they know how much you care.”   —   Source Obscure

(Besides obscure, I think this must be archaic.  Too many people don’t really care about either.  They just care about what they can get out of you.  Not the best way to make America great again!  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 02/04/16

English: Kipling the British writer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”   —   Source Obscure

Map of British India with places of Rudyard Kipling visits. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

(Unsubstantiated, but some believe that this quote belongs to Rudyard Kipling, and is likely about India.  But one story has this line coming from T.S. Eliot, in an article he penned in Harper’s Magazine . . . about Rudyard Kipling!  Maybe it’s just me, but the line doesn’t strike me as being particularly flattering.  To me, it sounds like a bit of an insult, or at best a backhanded compliment.  I’ve never been to India, but I have been to a few third world countries.  Unless you’re lucky enough to be in an affluent enclave, there’s usually the ever present, underlying  smell that consists of fish, crap, sweat and burning garbage.  In short, it’s a smell of desperation.  Maybe I’m just as bad as Kipling?  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR 

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