“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde
(also: Oscar Wilde quotes)

(n.) the organ contained within the head of a life form; all that separates a thinking, living being and a pile of rotting meat

(n.) noodles prepared by italians, as opposed to noodles prepared by east asian people, which are referred to as "takeout"

Rich people without money

(v.) the act of desperately trying to salvage a plan that has gone horribly awry

A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. All acting is simulation, and the word simulation is from simia, an ape; but in opera the actor takes for his model Simia audibilis (or Pithecanthropos stentor) — the ape that howls.

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The actor apes a man — at least in shape;
The opera performer apes an ape.
(also: the devil's dictionary)

What's normal anyways?
(also: life)
(also: the universe)
(also: humans)

Simp is a word used specaly by kids for describing any male in a relation with a female(friends or lovers),or the other meaning that is a man too attentive and submissive to women.

An infamous city within the Roman Empire, where residents couldn't stop naming things. They'd start with a simple concept like happy or sad, then they'd end up with a word for "temporary lustful attachment to an unidentified mushroom on the forest floor."

A person austerely censorious of that which he is unable to do or become. In commerce and finance, a member of the Army of Provision.

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
― Mark Twain

(also: pantaloons)

(n.) remarks stemming from a lack of trust or faith (in the statement, person, group or existence in general), thereby using humour and disbelief as protection.

Userma'atre'setepenre, mercifully also known as ramses ii (1303-1213 BC) was a pharaoh of ancient egypt, more specifically early in the nineteenth dynasty, and considered one of the better and more significant rulers in egyptian history.

among his more notable achievements: ordering the construction of the temples at abu simbel, marrying nefertari, many outstanding military victories against the syrians and nubians and pirates, and even signing one of history's oldest recorded peace treaties (with the hittites, egypt's longtime enemies, since you asked). he is also sometimes believed to be the pharaoh mentioned in the biblical tale of exodus (evidence is sketchy, though the book of exodus does allude to the city of pi ramses, which was founded by and dedicated to ramses ii).

he died, somewhat predictably- according to manetho the historian, from simple complications relating to advanced age after 66 years of rule- and was entombed in the valley of kings, in a tomb today called KV7 by academics.

today he is best known for lending his name (or its greek form "ozymandias") to a poem by percy shelley. the theme of the poem is that the weight of history will gradually drag even men of great achievement into the dark depths of obscurity.

A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

To recall with additions something not previously known.
(also: infinity)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

one of the most extravagantly gay artists of his time. since his time was the late 19th century, being extravagantly gay was pretty risky for him. but i'm sure it turned out all right for him in the end. heh.

known for the acerbic wit he brought to his work in both play and prose; see 'the importance of being earnest' and 'the picture of dorian gray,' respectively. roughly 80% of spurious quotes are attributed to either him or winston churchill

The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Grantarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.

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Ambitious fool! so mad to be a show!
How profitless the labor you bestow
Upon a dwelling whose magnificence
The tenant neither can admire nor know.

Build deep, build high, build massive as you can,
The wanton grass-roots will defeat the plan
By shouldering asunder all the stones
In what to you would be a moment's span.

Time to the dead so all unreckoned flies
That when your marble is all dust, arise,
If wakened, stretch your limbs and yawn —
You'll think you scarcely can have closed your eyes.

What though of all man's works your tomb alone
Should stand till Time himself be overthrown?
Would it advantage you to dwell therein
Forever as a stain upon a stone?
—Joel Huck
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(1901 – 1954) Italian-American physicist who created the first nuclear reactor
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: enrico fermi quotes)

1st meal of the day... Unless you have a pre-breakfast snack!

(also: bacon)