# Ron English

Ron English (born June 3, 1959) is an American contemporary artist who explores brand imagery, street art and advertising.

## Quotes
### Death and the Eternal Forever (2014)

English, Ron. Death and the Eternal Forever (2014). London. ISBN 978-0-9576649-2-0. OCLC 868078912.
* The only good artist is a dead artist.
* Death is more interesting from a distance.
* The womb is the first portal to the hereafter.
* The rumors of my death are only a pending reality.
* Even if you live to one hundred, you’ll still be dead forever.
* Death is nature’s way of staying in charge.
* Everyone is dead in heaven.
* I can no more imagine my demise than remember my birth.
* There is much to accomplish before I become fertilizer for the foliage.
* Live life like you're writing your own obituary.
* No evil comes from the fear of hell, no good comes from the promise of heaven.

### Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)

English, Ron. Ron English's fauxlosophy (First edition ed.). [Darlington]. ISBN 978-1-908211-45-3. OCLC 928121529.
* In the future everyone will be dead for 15 minutes.
* My reflections always get it backwards.
* Evolution is the myth that keeps on morphing.
* Narcissism makes me feel better about myself.
* Fame always finds the village idiot.
* Art is the canary in the goldmine.
* Sell a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will put you out of a job.
* Last place is first place in the very next race.
* You can’t judge a book while it’s on fire.
* You don’t protest air pollution by holding your breath.
* There’s nothing to dream about in heaven.
* Criminals are the product of arrested development.
* Familiarity is the enemy of admiration.
* There’s nothing more dangerous than a good idea.
* You can lead a horse to Harvard but you can’t make him think.
* The only ass I follow is my own.
* If you believe, it doesn’t have to be true.
* Footprints go unnoticed on a well-worn path.
* You can’t part the waters without making some waves.
* The end of the world goes on forever.
* My heart is in the right place… between my lungs.
* I’ve built my house with the stones you’ve thrown.
* Life is hardest on the headstrong.
* The fastest way to the future is to bypass the past.
* Every silver lining obscures a cloud.
* If I wanted your opinion, I wouldn’t bother having one of my own.
* The best things in life have fleas.
* A ripe apple never toppled the tree.
* Patience is wasted on the lazy.
* Every river is looking for an ocean.
* My thoughts hold my mind together.
* Holding contradictory ideas balances the brain.
* The human heart beats itself to death.
* Nothing is normal until you get used to it.
* You’re only young forever.
* It’s not the journey that weighs you down; it’s the baggage.
* Talent is the enemy of taste. Taste is the enemy of talent.
* The longest journey ends where apathy begins.
* You can’t have your cake and your waistline, too.
* I’ll stay awake while reason sleeps.
* Memories forever remake the past.
* He who laughs last may be the joke.
* He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
* Question, believe, or lose your mind.
* Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three lefts do.
* You may know you’re going to die, but you won’t know you’re dead.
* You are not a clone.
* We are the new they.
* The lesser of two evils is not the greater good.
* Evolution’s the gift that keeps on giving.
* I may be shallow, but my thoughts are deep.
* Pacifists lose the war; aggressors lose the peace.
* Fall is the season the leaves do dread, because gravity loves the color red.
* Last place gets to stay in the race longer.
* When all else fails, start a band.
* In heaven, no one can hear you dream.
* Behind every great man is a pickpocket.
* Education prepares the next generation for life and debt.
* I pray my obituary is a hoax.
* No brain, no pain.
* You can’t have your kitsch and your good taste, too.
* Madness is the genius’ substitute for stupidity.
* Nothing is true until someone believes.
* No one should possess more than they can hold in their heart.
* If questioning something endangers its existence, extinction is probably in its future.
* The trivial travels faster than the profound.
* Some days you can’t see the forest for the fire.
* You’re guaranteed a past, but not a future.
* It’s always tomorrow on the other side of the world.
* I believe my own imagination.
* Memories forever remake themselves.
* Myths are the unbelievable truth.
* Evolution is a two-way street.
* It’s not the size of the brush; it’s the expanse of the imagination.
* Absinthe makes the mind go wander.
* I’m complicated, not confused.
* Adversity is the mother of contention.
* A stream of consciousness leads to an ocean of revelations.
* Evolution doesn’t work on creationists.
* Holding something sacred stunts its evolution.
* Only the evaporated ascend.
* The rich don’t start revolutions.
* Every teardrop returns to a cloud.
* It’s not God I fear but the woman who bore him.
* You are the dreams of your ancestors.
* The water I breathe would drown the more evolved.
* You can’t remember what you never forgot.
* Some people play hard to get; I play hard to want.
* I don’t love myself; I have other people do that for me.
* Jesus never walked on water, but he was always on thin ice.
* What you believe is without a clue. What I believe is always true.
* There is no outfit that can make me fit in.
* The rules always seem to be in the service of someone else.
* Being a big fish in a small pond is great until you have to poop.
* We are the offspring of extinct imagination.
* Dreaming is easy; I can do it in my sleep.

### We Are the New They (2020)

English, Ron and the Rabbbits. We Are the New They (2020). PoPaganda. Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/album/0ECo51P59WwbFY2iIKZ9F4
* Tomorrow’s the future’s yesterday

### Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

English, Ron. Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022). Kindle Edition, ASIN:B09RH7ZMHB. https://www.amazon.com/Ron-Englishs-Fauxlosophy-2-English-ebook/dp/B09RH7ZMHB/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2FUBHMQ8AUFHK&keywords=fauxlosophy+ron+english&qid=1652366542&sprefix=fauxlosophy+ron+english%2Caps%2C125&sr=8-2
* A man with a bomb has never to beg.
* Everyone matters more than you except to yourself.
* Her beauty is best experienced in the dark.
* He who has not sinned lacks a stone.
* Dodge the draft or dodge the bullets.
* Happiness isn’t having something for yourself but wanting it for everyone.
* Good things come to those with bait.
* Don't let your actions betray your intentions.
* Doing is thinking in the third dimension.
* A full house beats one of a kind.
* A gun in the hand is worth a corpse in the Promised Land.
* Death would be better if it weren’t forever.
* The irreplaceable get stuck where they are.
* Most aliens are expressionists.
* It’s better to be happy than in pursuit of it.
* I believe my best guesses.
* A skeleton in the closet saves on a grave.
* Animals are never naked.
* An army of one answers to none.
* If someone’s face lacks a smile, offer them yours.
* I’m in love with your pretense like you’re in love with mine.
* If it’s good enough for the cosmos, it’s good enough for humankind.
* Anything worth doing can be done by someone else.
* Sometimes you have to do something dangerous to get death's attention.
* Increasing your odds gets you closer to your goal.
* In heaven you get the hang-over before the intoxication.
* I only speak to drown out my thoughts.
* Life is fair. Everyone gets more than they deserve.
* I would talk to myself but I’m not a good listener.
* The few think for the many.
* I was reincarnated as my former self.
* I have an undeveloped photographic memory.
* I could kill two birds if I wasn't so stoned.
* It’s better to get the last laugh than the joke.
* It’s easier to solve problems if you don’t have to live with the solutions.
* In a land of plenty it is better to consume than create.
* In fraud we trust.
* Mad to the marrow.
* If you want to get hit by a car, stand in the road.
* If you got everything you wanted there would be nothing left for anyone else.
* If God had meant man to fly he would have gone a little easier on the gravity.
* I hope my journey to death lasts at least ninety years.
* Those who cannot create consume.
* They wouldn’t criticize you if they didn’t feel threatened..
* Thinking is not doing.
* Heaven is a Christian-free eternity.
* There is nothing more exhilarating than understanding.
* There is no right I would not gladly forgo to expand your power.
* The low road leads to da feet.
* The indoctrinated's different drummer is a metronome.
* The impossible has no past.
* The inevitable only exists through lack of intervention.
* The heart’s desire is expressed in blood.
* The first thing on my to-do list is to make a to-do list.
* The only thing I would do different is more of the same.
* A shadow never sees the sun.
* It takes a different kind of courage to be a coward.
* Our existence is nearly a biological impossibility.
* If the folks back home could see me now, they’d know the surveillance system works.
* Oncoming traffic appears closer in the rearview mirror.
* Only the dead find peace, only the living desire it.
* Memories have their own way with the past.
* Money is the root of all motivation.
* Nothing’s a mistake until you make it.
* One percent intention, ninety nine percent desire.
* The road to hell is littered with ads.
* Out of the clear blue nowhere.
* The opinions of others are articulated by my inner voice.
* My failure is a window for your success.
* Patience grows old.
* The revolution will go unnoticed.
* I only appear selfish to a saint.
* Nobody understands a prostitute better than a politician.
* Being misunderstood is the measure of an artist, being understood is the measure of a man.
* Mirrors reverse life, memories reverse time.
* No is a bigger word than I.
* My parents saved me from nonexistence.
* If listening was as important as speaking, you would have twice as many ears as mouths.
* Mistakes clear the path for success.
* Memories remake the past, dreams remake the future.

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