Coolidge in Chiang Mai

C.M. Coolidge's most famous painting - the one with the dogs playing poker, I guess the Thai are big fans of it because I found a series of these paintings on a walkway to Wat U Mong. I remember hearing about these, and they are quite possibly the most head tilting, eyebrow raising thing I've seen in Chiang Mai. At temples there are usually signs posted to the trees with inspirational quotes or sayings. Sometimes they are lost in translation when posted in English. So on this walkway to Wat U Mong, there are these dog paintings with the inspirational quotes below. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the relation between the photo and the quotes below, sometimes just pondering what the quote actually means. I'll share some of my favorites.
This is a picture of the dogs engaging in illegal activities. If you look closely, you can see some doggy drug use, a poodle prostitute in the background, and a dog playing a guitar (sex, drugs, and rock and roll). This is the sign below the naughty dogs:

"If you cannot have what you like, you must learn to like whatever you have." Think about it. So when life gives you marijuana and a whore, you better enjoy it.

This one is of the dogs playing a game of pool and the quote says, "Physical beauty is the dew drops on the leaves." I thought about it for quite awhile. The dogs do look handsome in this one though, as handsome as dew drops on leaves...? Perhaps.

Other quotes were:
He who borrows interest pays back in tears; Until death there is nothing enough; Money and time are the heaviest burdens in life. These were all actually related to the picture of the dogs playing poker similar to Coolidge's famous work.

My all-time favorite quote was below a picture of dogs playing a game of chess:
"It is easier to chain an elephant with lotus leaves than to teach a crazy person." I am welcome to suggestions on what this means. Maybe it's supposed to make you ponder it so hard that you start to feel like the crazy person who can't be taught anything about these so-called Buddhist teachings.