Ashleigh Brilliant
Ashleigh Brilliant
Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliantis an author and syndicated cartoonist born in London, UK, and living in Santa Barbara, California, USA. He is best known for his Pot-Shots, single-panel illustrations with one-line humorous remarks, which began syndication in the United States of America in 1975. Brilliant achieved American citizenship in 1969...
flower food thinking
What good is it if you talk in flowers, and they think in pastry?
thinking silence thinker
If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.
war fighting thinking
In one sense, I have always felt glad to have had the war [World War II] in my childhood, because, as a result, nothing that has happened in the world since then has ever seemed quite so bad. On the other hand, I never entirely got over my feeling of being cheated when the promised era of peace in a wonderful "post-war world" failed to materialize. I could not understand how, after all that, people could ever even think of fighting again. And I still can't.
thinking ive-learned
I've learned so much from my failures that I'm thinking of having some more.
together relax tension
Please don't tell me to relax, it's only my tension that's holding me together.
trying patient life-is
Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.
order mind trying
In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything.
waiting earth tasks
The task I've been given seems absurd: To wait here on earth until I no longer exist.
next life-is objects
My main object in life is to see what will happen next.
speak dangerous nothing-but-the-truth
Speak nothing but the truth, and you'll soon be considered dangerous.
decision gone research
It's amazing how much research has gone into making some of the worst decisions.
past hands worried
The future seems to be in good hands, it's the past I'm worried about.
dying small-parts
Dying is a part of living, but only a very small part.
There's so much to learn and so much of it not worth learning.