©4-5-2010 by Donna Cunningham, MSW
I enjoy the daily selections on http://www.quotationspage.com/ and include them on my Google startup page. It often seems that the more brilliant quotations capture the essence of some planet or sign, so I’ve taken to saving them. (For more information about the authors and sources of the quotes, click on their names.) I created the cartoons here by tweaking some of the stranger drawings at Clipart.com and adding captions.
Quotes that get to the essence of Uranus:
Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats. – Howard Aiken
The reason lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn’t there the second time. – Willie Tyler
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish. – Robert Jackson
Quotes that get to the essence of Mercury:
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses. – Margaret Millar
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once. – Evan Esar
I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it. – Terry Pratchett
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. – Ben Hecht
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. Groucho Marx
Quotes that get to the essence of Venus:
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. – Miss Piggy
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. – Sam Brown
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. Oscar Wilde
Love can be sordid only if you work at it. – Brooke McEldowney
I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in “Peanuts”
Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. Matt Groening
Readers: join us in giving astrology lovers something to laugh about this month. Leave jokes in the comment section or send me links to astrological humor on the internet at moonmave@spiritone.com. You’re welcome to borrow the Celebrate National Humor animation. I made it for free here: Logo Design and Button Generator Tool – FlamingText.com.
More Quote Pages on Skywriter:
- Quotes about Saturn’s Issues—Wise Counsel from our Elders
- Uranian Ideas—Exceptional Thoughts about an Exceptional Planet
- Neptunian Musings—Mysterious but Strangely Apt Quotations
- Jumpin’ Jehosephat—Jupiterian Wisdom and Wisecracks
- Mars—What Great Minds say about Its Functions
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There are brilliantly funny! Thank you!
By: nray on April 5, 2010
at 10:56 am
Hehe – they’re funny Donna – I like the lightning one!
By: Tony Vowles on April 5, 2010
at 11:51 am
Miss Piggy is oh, so very wise! Thanks for the giggles.
By: cjwright on April 5, 2010
at 12:55 pm
Thanks, folks! I enjoyed putting them together, too, and pretending to be a cartoonist. Donna
By: Donna Cunningham on April 5, 2010
at 3:45 pm
Along this line:
How many “” does it take to change a lightbulb?
Aires – Just one and I’ll change fast and furiously.
Taurus _ There is no need to change anything. Keep the bulb. It costs too much to change.
Gemini – I like to change and change and change and change….
Cancer – There, there dear, let mommie change that mean old light bulb for you.
Leo – Moi? Do manual labor? Surely you jest. Make it a spotlight….on me.
Virgo – I am the only one who can do this correctly. And it must be up the most current green energy standards.
Libra – On the one hand, the current one is fine.But…a new one would be nice, too.
And let it have a nice glow that flatters the complexion.
Scorpio – NONE! I like the dark!
Sagittarius – Let me tell you all about the history of all the lightbulbs worldwide…
Capricorn – Refer to management policies on light bulbs.
Aquarius – This bulb is the light that shines on all humanity and it must be kept illuminated. An LED would be nice.
Pisces – Me is afraid of the dark lest me be swallowed up in the great ocean of universal concsiousness. Let Aires do it.
By: MEL810 on April 8, 2011
at 11:20 am
Good ones, Meloh! Donna
By: Donna Cunningham on April 8, 2011
at 5:51 pm
I thought this was cute- my mom has mercury in aries and mars in pisces, she describes this combo as her mouth writing checks her ass can’t cover
By: Vanessa on April 12, 2011
at 9:33 am
Perfect! Boy, has she got a handle on this pair! Are Mercury and Mars semisextile or another or semisquare? An actual aspect between them would hieghten the tension. Donna
By: Donna Cunningham on April 12, 2011
at 9:57 am
haha-they are 47° apart (weak semi-square?), also I wanted to thank you for the moon book excerpts- I shared these with mom-let’s see what she has to say
By: Vanessa on April 12, 2011
at 10:22 am
LOL! I’ll bet she has plenty to say. A Mercury-Mars aspect is never at a loss for words. Two degrees isn’t that wide for a semisquare. I’ve had 3 degree semisquares that all too often run my life! See this article:https://skywriter.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/understanding-semisquares%e2%80%94your-input-needed/
Donna
By: Donna Cunningham on April 12, 2011
at 10:33 am