That Was Zen

I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald

Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia

You haven't been bit till a dragon does it. - Tamora Pierce

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. - William Blake

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom. - Ruth Gordon

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer. - Mark Twain

I just love Chinese food. My favorite dish is number 27. - Clement Attlee

Shirley Temple was never as good as Bojangles George Murphy. - Archie Bunker

In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives. - Ann Voskamp

If you can't sleep do not count the sheep, worship the Shepherd. - Unknown

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon. - Pat Oliphant

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. - Novalis

A lame cat is better than a swift horse when rats infest the palace. - Chinese Proverb

The Republic of China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time. - David Coleman

Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life. - Marilu Henner

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. - B.K. Iyengar

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China. - Rob Lowe

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. - Havelock Ellis

Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken

I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad. - P.J. O'Rourke

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker. - Robin Williams

I want to have a bunch of kids so I can open a factory and have free labor. Beat that, China! - Jarod Kintz

Five main components of worship: the Lord's Supper, teaching, prayer, praise, and giving. - Ravi Zacharias

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. - Cornelia Funke

Like a bull into a china closet. Like in that picture, "The Prince and The Porpoise." - Archie Bunker

We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. - Tom Robbins

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them. - P.D. Ouspensky

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. Whenever you enter into it take with you your all. - Kahlil Gibran

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. - W H Auden

I had a meal last night. I ordered everything in French - surprised everybody, it was a Chinese restaurant. - Tommy Cooper

God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace. - Ravi Zacharias

If Music is a Place - then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. - Vera Nazarian

My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States. - Donald Trump

Just because I have rice on my clothes doesn't mean I've been to a wedding. A Chinese man threw up on me. - Phyllis Diller

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Oscar Wilde

The blazing wings of dawn spirited me away, Dragon-swift above the suns-rise, flying to my destiny beyond the clouds. - Marc Secchia

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters. - Jan Wong

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. - Neil Gaiman

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? - George Carlin

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. - W H Auden