He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.
Quotes about plumb (11 Quotes)
Seems lak haf' the country be plumb crazy.
Gratitude -- is not the mention
Of a Tenderness,
But its still appreciation
Out of Plumb of Speech.
'You cannot believe what you are saying.' 'Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an ideal nymph, only to plumb with his words the depths of passion. The philosopher tests the coldness of his gaze, to see how far he can undermine the fortress of bigotry.'
I think they are going to sell off a number of the assets. The real plumb here is the Conrad brand, which has much more cache in Asia. I think that is what they want to build out.
We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective
Tis better to plumb the depths of unity than forever scratch the surface of variety
You'll never plumb the Oriental mind, and if you did, it isn't worth the toil
When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two cliches make us laugh but a hundred cliches moves us because we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion.... Just as the extreme of pain meets sensual pleasure, and the extreme of perversion borders on mystical energy, so too the extreme of banality allows us to catch a glimpse of the Sublime.
Imam al-Ghazali God is much too great for the senses to reach Him or for reason and logic to plumb the depths of His Majesty. Indeed, He is much too great for anyone but Himself to plumb the depths of His Majesty or for anyone but Himself to know Him. Verily, no one knows God but God. The highest degree of gnosis that His servants can attain is the realization that true gnostic knowledge of Him is impossible for them. Furthermore, no one can know that in its totality except a Prophet of a righteous saint (siddiq). As for the Prophet, he has clearly expressed this by saying, 'I cannot enumerate the ways of praising Thee Thou art as Thou has praised Thyself.' As for the righteous saint, he says, 'The incapacity to attain realization is a realization.'