Quotes are fun
Here is a list of some of my favorite quotes
Unfortunately, I am at times a lousy correspondent – where by "at times" I mean "most of the time". If I don't respond to your email, or do so only after an inordinate amount of time has passed, please don't take it personally. – John Gruber
My guts have shit for brains. – High Fidelity, the movie
I am only resolved to act in a manner which will constitute my own happiness without reference to you or any person so wholly unconnected with me. – Elizabeth bennet, Pride and Prejudice, the bbc version (which is 10 times better than the book)
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. – George Bernard Shaw
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? – Laurence J. Peter
Confusion is always the most honest response. – Marty Indik
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. – August Strindberg
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. – Evelyn Waugh
You just put your pickle on everybody's plate college boy and leave the hard stuff to me. – Johnny Castle, Dirty Dancing
Experience is a poor teacher: it gives its tests before it teaches its lessons.
It's a good thing that luck happens to be one of my many skills. – I don't remember!
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. – Muhommad Ali
Be who you are and be that well. – Saint Francis de Sales
There are no facts, only interpretations. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life. – John F. Kennedy
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. – Johann von Neumann
There are two types of people—those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.' – Frederick L Collins
Life is a long lesson in humility. – James M. Barrie
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. – Peter Ustinov
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. – George Dennison Prentice
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men. – Roald Dahl
Only fools are positive. – Moe Howard
We are what we believe we are. – C.S. Lewis
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. – Erma Bombeck
All life is an experiment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. – William James
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. – Joe Ancis
Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. – Calvin Coolidge
1 December 2007 09:47am UTC • 1133 views • 14 comments
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The Anonymous Poppy
1 December 2007 07:20pm UTC
Anton Chekov, who was both a doctor and an incredibly witty playwright, said, "Medicine is my wife; writing is my mistress."
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
-- Seneca epistles 88 45
To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn't happen to give to charity.
-- Howard F. Lyman
My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks. I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
-- from "Something for Everyone" (from Naked), by David Sedaris
The word phobic has its place when properly used, but lately it’s been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing. No credit is given for distinguishing between these two very different emotions. I fear snakes. I hate computers.
-- from “Nutcracker.com” by David Sedaris
"You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time.... That's not a philosophical statement. I think it's a physiological statement. When you laugh, you're not afraid. And sometimes you laugh because you're afraid, but when you laugh the fear goes away. And it's not just "whistlin' past the graveyard." It actually just goes away when you're laughing."
-- Stephen Colbert
"But at last this frightful plan is ending with an unexpected crash, the shocking reality that no matter how thoroughly you might try to extinguish them, Mr. Bush, how thoroughly you tried to brand disagreement as disloyalty, Mr. Bush, there are still people like Daniel Levin who believe in the United States of America as true freedom, where we are better, not because of schemes and wars, but because of dreams and morals. And ultimately these men, these patriots, will defeat you and they will return this country to its righteous standards, and to its rightful owners, the people."
-- I love Keith Olbermann.
"You can't catch gay. But gay sure as hell can catch you."
-- Jon Stewart
Dread Pirate Benjamin
2 December 2007 02:40am UTC
Well, apparently I already posted my favorite quotes! If you look at the related posts, there is a link to this post from December 7th. I feel like a dope now! That post was a subset of my list of favorite quotes. Which is this list. Ooops!
Sorry, to be repetitive. I am incapable of having any new ideas. It is a disease I contracted from Omer.
Dread Pirate Benjamin
2 December 2007 02:52am UTC
(No offense Omer! I just figured you wouldn't take any, so I singled you out. Plus, everyone knows you have no original ideas. ;))
The Anonymous Poppy
2 December 2007 03:08am UTC
I like this post better anyway, Benji. But then, that's mostly because I like my response to this post better than my response to the other one. Don't get me wrong, arguing is still among the primary ways that I show affection, but I never look back on past arguments with fond memories.
Anyway, it's always fun to share quotes, even if you've done it before!
Dread Pirate Benjamin
2 December 2007 09:59am UTC
You may notice by comparing my favorite quotes from last December to now, that one of them was removed. I removed Omer's quote. Not because I don't like Omer or his quote but just because I decided I felt the opposite way. His quote is:
"Being someone's friend is tough business."
Here is my new philosophy, as of last night when I posted this list. Being someone's friend is easy. Just like them, respect them, and care about them. Everything else will work itself out in the end.
Though, I guess it is up for debate how difficult those tasks are...
Cabin Boy Farluffo
2 December 2007 05:05pm UTC
Two favorite quotes of mine:
"Being someone's friend is easy. Just like them, respect them, and care about them. Everything else will work itself out in the end."
-Benjamin Thomas
"Being someone's friend is tough business."
-Omer Bar-or
Cabin Boy Farluffo
2 December 2007 05:10pm UTC
Oh and this one:
"Me LIKEY friendship...give give give to meeeeeeeee...whomp whomp whomp. Blair make me some cookies."
-Sasha Gerdel
Steve the Interloper
3 December 2007 06:50pm UTC
There are two kinds of people in this world: the kind that believes there are two kinds of people in this world and the kind that doesn't.
Boatswain The Fool
4 December 2007 10:37am UTC
An amendment to my previous quote: if the two friends like each other, respect each other and care about each other, than the toughness of being friends is lifted...
... That doesn't work either because what happens then is that you start thinking to yourself that this friendship is too easy, like it means that something is missing from the relationship and you need to go somewhere outside to get it. Then, when you tell yourself "No, no, no, there's nothing missing from the relationship," you secretly accuse your friend of being the reason that things don't seem right, and maybe they're holding some grudge against you, which they probably are, I mean who the hell are we kidding? Let's face it. Which brings us back to the earlier quote before the amendment which, is: being someone's friend is tough business
Boatswain The Fool
4 December 2007 10:38am UTC
I'm sorry for that.
Boatswain The Fool
4 December 2007 10:38am UTC
Also: that's wrong, Steve. There is only one kind of people in the world: the kind that believes that there is only one kind of people in the world.
Peon Peetie
5 December 2007 03:36am UTC
wait, steve, i thought there were 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't...
Cabin Boy Farluffo
5 December 2007 06:14pm UTC
omer, your reference to the greatest romantic comedy ever told (WHMS) was brilliant and I salute you.
Dread Pirate Benjamin
14 December 2007 04:26pm UTC
I love your comment Omer. Though, of course it was a gimme that I would.