‘I wish I’d said that.’
Oscar Wilde, in response to a Whistler witticism.
‘You will Oscar, you will.’
Whistler.
‘If everybody were somebody, then nobody would be anybody’
Oscar Wilde
'One of the miseries of intellectual pretensions is, that nine-tenths of those you come in contact wiuth do not know whether you are an imposter or not.
William Hazlitt (On the Advantages of Intellectual Superiority)
‘I’d like to help you out; which way did you come in?’
Anon.
‘When reading Celine we are seized at that fragile spot of our subjectivity where our collapsed defenses reveal, beneath the appearances of a fortified castle, a flayed skin; neither inside not outside, the wounding exterior turning into an abominable interior, war bordering on putrescence, while social and family rigidity, that beautiful mask, crumbles within the beloved abomination of innocent vice.’
Julia Kristeva
‘Anything you say may be used in Everton against you.’
John Lennon
‘I’ve learned how to live without knowing.’
Richard Feynman.
‘A wop bopa loo bop, a lop bam boom’
Little Richard
Maul Halten und Weiter dienen." - “Hold your tongue and get on with your job” alleged (ironic) motto of Joseph Svejk, created by Jaroslav Hasek
“Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas”
Happy the man who understands the causes of things - Horace
“Time, which no man hath, is in truth our only possession.” - Robert Schekley
“Originality is the art of concealing one’s source” - Oscar Wilde
“The artist never borrows - he steals” - Anon
“The other lot’s eyes are too close together.” - James Young
“Gnothe seauton” - “Know Thyself” Inscribed on the Temple at Delphi
“All things are changing, nothing dies. The spirit wanders, comes now here, now there, and occupies whatever frame it pleases… From beasts it passes into human bodies, and from our bodies into beasts… but never perishes.” - Pythagoras
“Wretches! Wretches! Keep your hand from beans!” - Pythagoras (the same fellow.)
“… I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
– Faramir, in The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
“He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.”
Gandalf
the ever immortal…“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
Bilbo at his party
"Certainty of death, small chance of success… well, what’re we waiting for? ";
Gimli to the Captains of the West
and my favorite…
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
Merry go round, merry go round, merry go round do doo doo do doo doo do, and they call that doing your thing
So THAT’s what doing your thing is!
The Thing is to put a motor in yourself
Drums are too noisy and there’ no corners to hide in
Some people like cupcakes exclusively well; myself I say there is not, nor ought there be, nothing so exalted on the face of Gods’ great earth as that prince of food, the muffin
Take me to some relative’s house in East LA
Just until my skin clears up
“English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other
languages down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through
their pockets for loose grammar.”
-Author Unknown
"I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed.
So I said, ‘Get off me, you two!’ "
-Emo Phillips