This is just a small collection of stuff that has struck me in one way or another...Enjoy!
(lyrics and movie quotes to come soon...Requests gladly accepted)
What are you going to do??? Set the dogs on us??? Or the bees???
Or the dogs with the bees in their mouths??? And every time they bark,
they shoot bees at you???
Homer J. Simpson
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Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some
few to be chewed and digested:...
-Bacon
Character is what you are in the dark.
-Moody
Oh, frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
He chortled in his joy.
-Lewis Carroll
Evermore in the world is this marvellous balance of beauty and
disgust, magnificence and rats.
-Emerson
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
-Socrates
My country is the world, and my religion to do good.
-Paine
Criticism is a disinterested endeavor to learn and propogate
the best that is known and thought in the world.
-Arnold
Culture is "to know the best that has been said and thought in
the world."
-Arnold
I'm a lean dog, a keen dog, wild dog, and lone;
I'm a rough dog, a tough dog, hunting on my own;
I'm a bad dog, a mad dog, teasing silly sheep;
I love to sit and bay at the moon, to keep fat souls from sleep.
-MacLeod
It was fear that first made gods in the world.
(Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.)
-Statius
Genius, cried the commuter,
As he ran for the 8:13,
Consists of an infinate capacity
For catching trains.
-Morley
Here's to you, as good as you are,
And here's to me, as bad as I am;
But as good as you are, and as bad as I am,
I am as good as you are, as bad as I am.
-Anonymous (Old Scotch toast)
Satan the envious said with a sigh;
Christians know more about their hell than I.
-Kreymborg
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
-Napoleon
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a
tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
-Shaw
To desire immortality is to desire the perpetuation of a great
mistake.
-Schopenhauer
A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
-Pope
A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
-Crane
Man, biologically considered,....is the most formidable of all
beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys
systematically on it's own species.
-James
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a
dog that is news.
-Bogart
Cleopatra's nose: had it been shorter, the whole aspect of the
world would have been altered.
-Pascal
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
-Ellis
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible
worlds; the pessimist fears this is true.
-Cabell
Originality, I fear, is too often only the undetected and
frequently unconscious plagerism.
-Inge
To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
-Bierce
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to
make us love, one another.
-Swift
It's no use crying over spilt milk: it only makes it salty for
the cat.
-Anonymous
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