Great Quotes

Mello_SixtyNine

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"Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community...but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."

- Umberto Eco
 
Q: Who decries 'elitists'?
A: Failure-oriented under-achievers.

Meanwhile, my favorite quote from a Bulwer-Lytton Literary Contest:
"There's more than one way to skin a cat," she mused,
as she pinned its little feet to the dissection table.​

And another quote, this from Skip Williamson. His comix character Snappy Sammy Smoot ("Don't wee-wee on your tee-vee, kids!") hallucinates madly and stabs people to death. He is caught, tried, and fried in the electric chair, and here comes the punchline:
"If you can't deal with reality, reality will certainly deal with YOU."​
That's a lesson Gups are slow to learn. Reality doesn't care about dogma. Sad.
 
"Too many pieces of music finish too long before the end."
-Igor Stravinsky
 
Oscar Wilde — ‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.’
 
"Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse."
Will Rogers





Comshaw
 
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"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
Carl Sagan





Comshaw
 
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i've never actually wished for any man's death but i've read quite a few obituaries with great pleasure.-will rogers
 
'A quote is a poor substitute for original thought'

I dunno, always said it. Google knows nuthin'
 
Ernest Bramah

“There is a time to silence an adversary with the honey of logical persuasion, and there is a time to silence him with the argument of a heavily directed club.”
― Ernest Bramah, Kai Lung's Golden Hours

“There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night.”
― Ernest Bramah

“It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops.”
― Ernest Bramah, Wallet of Kai Lung

A description of oggbashan's stories?

“The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than most of them. But the whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and honourable high-mindedness, and the two characters are both of noble birth.”
― Ernest Bramah, Wallet of Kai Lung
 
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

H. L. Mencken
 
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