*Maybe* curiosity DOESN'T kill the cat!

Maybe curiosity DOESN'T kill the cat!

Only the curious have something to find. Nickel Creek

A lack of curiosity is a shame. It leads to a life lived one dimensional, void of color, unfulfilled.
Growing up I was always told, "Curiosity killed the cat." Basically I took that to mean, as did anyone else I know as well as I think the messenger of the phrase, that being curious was bad and would only lead to bad things (i.e. death - being curious KILLED a cat for heaven's sake!) and so squelch your curious nature, your inquisitiveness, your thirst to discover new things, and just play it safe. Conform to the freaking box someone was trying to shove you in. Huh. I feel a lot more strongly about this than I realized. Until just now.
There's so much out there. There's colors that exist that Crayola hasn't thought of. There's books to be read that could be your most favorite ever if you give them a chance. There's puzzles (i.e. LIFE) to solve and a sense of accomplishment to wear proudly. There are styles of clothing that would help your inner shine show off a bit. There's music that you will love if only you will listen to it. There's amazing food for your taste buds to love if you would just put aside what anyone else has ever said about the food.
You see what I'm saying? I don't really need to go on do I?
Lack of curiosity leads to nowhere, the curious soul has a whole world open to them.

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Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

A dime a dozen

"It's said that in the year 1796, the first U.S. dimes were produced for circulation. Hence, it would make sense for this phrase to originate sometime after." Read more here . Today the phrase carries the meaning that something is cheap or without value if it can be lumped in with other similar or exactly-like things. It's more of an insult than anything.

Life according to van Gogh...sort of

There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it; how to do it -- with much drawing and little color; how not to do it -- with much color and little drawing. Vincent van Gogh in a l etter to Theo van Gogh, April 1882 Life is a little bit like today's quote from van Gogh. Some of us live life focusing on the drawing - the details - and have very little color. Others of us go for the color and forsake, to a degree, the drawing - the details. Unlike painting, according to van Gogh, one is not wrong over the other but somewhere in between the two would be the best I would think. If you look at some of van Gogh's paintings I feel like you can see where he might have struggled between the "how to do it" and the " how not to do it" (as he admittedly loved color so much but knew he had to focus more on the drawing) and that seems to be reflected in his life as well. In the end he wasn't able to find the ...

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