Thursday, December 05, 2024

Quotes - Part Twenty-Nine

 

550.                   Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

--Mark Twain

551.                   I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

--Mark Twain

552.                   Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

--Mark Twain

553.                   Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

--Mark Twain

554.                   We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove‑lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove‑lid again – and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

--Mark Twain

555.                   Ever consider what [dogs] must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!

--Anne Tyler

556.                   In dog years, I’m dead.

--Unknown

557.                   The greatest song written was conjured by an Italian for a scene in a Western filmed in Spain where a Polish man pretending to be a Mexican bandit does a gay little run through a graveyard for three and a half minutes uninterrupted.

--Unknown

558.                   The perfect guy is not the one who has the most money, or the most handsome one you’ll meet.  He is the one who knows how to make you smile and will take care of you each and every day until the end of time.

--Unknown

559.               Postulated: the first few seconds of “Under Pressure” / “Ice, Ice, Baby” is the Schrodinger’s Cat of the music world.

--Unknown

560.               Surround yourself with people who fight for you in rooms you aren’t in.

--Unknown

561.               That mountain you’ve been carrying, you were only supposed to climb.

--Unknown

562.               Welcome home!  In your absence, you were missed.  Now that you have returned, though, things are all right.  Let us begin living again.

--Unknown

563.               First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.

--Usenet

564.               If it weren’t for physics and law enforcement, I’d be unstoppable.

--Usenet

565.               Life is a whole series of circumstances beyond your control.

--Van Roy’s Truism

566.               Sports makes higher education palatable for students who do not belong.

--Veblen

567.               Evil is not a philosophy. It is neither a means nor an end. It is an attitude and a lifestyle. Make no excuses. Support no ideology. Never explain. You’re evil. Just do it.

--Commodore Vierundsechzig, “Villain Supply”

568.               It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

--Voltaire

569.               A hundred bucks for sunglasses! They better be able to see through clothes, or you got hella ripped off.

--Wackypants, “PD Central”

570.               You have to regard everything I say with suspicion. I may be trying to bullshit you, or I may just be bullshitting you inadvertently.

--J. Wainwright, Mathematics 140b

571.               Never invest in something that violates a conservation law.

--John Walker

572.               Aristotle was not Belgian. The central tenet of Buddhism is not, “Every man for himself.” And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up.

--Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis), A Fish Called Wanda

573.               People who can’t distinguish between etymology and entomology bug me in ways I cannot put into words.

--Tal Waterhouse

574.               We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.

--John Waters

575.               If you can’t control your peanut butter, how can you expect to control your life?

--Calvin in “Calvin and Hobbes” by Bill Watterson

576.               The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

-- Calvin in “Calvin and Hobbes” by Bill Watterson

577.               When the globe is covered with a net of railroads and telegraph wires, this net will render services comparable to those of the nervous system in the human body, partly as a means of transport, partly as a means for the propagation of ideas and sensations with the speed of lightning.

--Wilhelm Weber, 1835

578.               Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

--H.G. Wells

579.               Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

--Mae West

580.               I don’t know what’s scarier, losing a nuclear weapon or that it happens so often there’s actually a term for it.

--Frank Whaley, “Broken Arrow”

581.               Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

--Joss Whedon

582.               It is not an optical illusion, it just looks like one.

--Phil White

583.               The Vulcan Neck Pinch is not half as powerful as the Vulcan Groin Kick, but it’s more politically correct.

--William White

584.               I’m really excited to wait 18 weeks to see who the Patriots beat in the Super Bowl.

--@whitememjesus

585.               Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

--Dennis Wholey

586.               Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.

–Oscar Wilde

587.               There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute strength and ignorance.

--William’s Law

588.               You have a cough? Go home tonight, and eat a whole box of Ex‑Lax, tomorrow you’ll be afraid to cough.

--Pearl Williams

589.               I was at a German talk show once (and they asked) "Why do you think there isn't so much comedy in Germany?" And I said: "Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?"

–Robin Williams

590.               Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded.  We have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief.  We have never seen a totally sane human being.

--Robert Anton Wilson

591.               Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.

--Woodrow Wilson

592.               I think ‑ therefore I’m single.

--Lizz Winstead

593.               Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It’s like having a little pet for your face.

--Anita Wise

594.               In my day, we didn’t have virtual reality. If a one‑eyed razorback barbarian warrior was chasing you with an ax, you just had to hope you could outrun him.

--Sarah M. Wolford, Hanover

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