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At first thought, to start, it has to be a Mark Twain quote.

amirite?

Like this one:

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

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03-07-2020 , 04:42 AM

Rebelp

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I do like a bit of P G Wodehouse
‘Oh Brancepeth,’ said the girl, her voice trembling, ‘why haven’t you any money? If only you had the merest pittance - enough for a flat in Mayfair and a little weekend place in the country somewhere and a couple of good cars and a villa in the South of France and a bit of trout fishing on some decent river, I would risk all for love.’

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03-07-2020 , 05:00 AM

Rebelp

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To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi...

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03-07-2020 , 05:14 AM

R*R

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"What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing."

Chaucer

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03-07-2020 , 05:34 AM

R*R

I wish I was Einstein

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"You had me at hello."

Cameron Crowe

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03-07-2020 , 09:18 AM

Phat Mack

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“After all, golf is only a game,'' said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they're saying.”

Wodehouse

I think we once had an entire thread of Wodehouse quotes in OT

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03-07-2020 , 09:30 AM

John Cole

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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

Emerson

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03-07-2020 , 09:36 AM

Phat Mack

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Originally Posted by John Cole

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

Emerson

Haha. This got quoted to me yesterday when I pointed out that a well known political figure didn't practice what he preached.

Last edited by Phat Mack; 03-07-2020 at 09:40 AM. Reason: ...which was the first Transcendentalist of his ilk I had met...

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03-07-2020 , 09:41 AM

tall_trees

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"Although this explanation satisfies mathematicians, it does not answer the question of how it is possible to accomplish infinitely many tasks in a finite period of time. Zeno though it impossible and hence that any sort of motion is an illusion."

From The Little Book of Mathematical Principles, Theories, & Things

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03-07-2020 , 09:54 AM

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Rebelp

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Douglas Adams of course
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

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03-07-2020 , 12:50 PM

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Phat Mack

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Originally Posted by tall_trees

Impossible to overstate how much trouble Zeno stirs up.

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03-07-2020 , 06:22 PM

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Rebelp

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Oscar Wilde
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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03-08-2020 , 03:13 PM

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Zeno

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I have all three of the books linked below and highly recommend them to everyone’s library or reading list.

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Now:

“Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens!” [From: As You Like It]

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03-08-2020 , 03:28 PM

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mrbaseball

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Anything Yogi Berra ever said

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03-08-2020 , 08:36 PM

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Rebelp

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And Terry Prachett
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

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03-08-2020 , 08:38 PM

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kioshk

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I like that Samuel Johnson quote about how being hanged in a fortnight concentrates the mind so well. Depend upon it, sir! it starts. He was ****ing awesome, that dude. Not a real doctor though! Kinda ugly too, they say.

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03-08-2020 , 08:50 PM

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Rebelp

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It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?

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03-08-2020 , 09:10 PM

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Rebelp

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His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.

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03-08-2020 , 09:22 PM

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Schlitz mmmm

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"Our attempt to peacefully demonstrate in opposition to the Neo-Nazis had.... gone........ horribly wrong." -- Geraldo Rivera.

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03-09-2020 , 12:16 AM

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Phat Mack

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A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.

The triumph of hope over experience.

-Samuel Johnson on second marriages and Phat Mack on flush draws.

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03-09-2020 , 12:33 AM

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justlexi

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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Henry James

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03-09-2020 , 03:22 AM

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Schlitz mmmm

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lol Henry James was a f*cking ******. Don't go judging Jim Baker.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/...FT2J4MOCEBOEI/

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03-09-2020 , 08:22 AM

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RichGangi

Laughable false & highly douchey

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Wow, I have so many favorites.

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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

- Life of Galileo, by Bertolt Brecht

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Patriotism-real patriotism-has a most important venue, and it's not always about putting on a uniform to fight some senseless, insane war in order to sustain the meaningless myths about 'freedom' or 'Americas greatness'. There is a higher loyalty that real patriotism demands and encompasses, and that loyalty is to the pursuit of truth, no matter how painful or uncomfortable the journey.

-Peter Janney, Mary's Mosaic

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My philosophy is: it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

-Anthony Hopkins

I'll stop, for now, with this gem:

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Don’t try to understand women, women understand women, and they hate each other.

-Al Bundy

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03-09-2020 , 11:41 AM

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Howard Treesong

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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

H.L. Mencken

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03-09-2020 , 11:46 AM

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RichGangi

Laughable false & highly douchey

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Nice! Love Mencken.

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All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the man who is superior in fact; if it be democratic, then it seeks to protect the man who is inferior in every way against both. One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them. All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.

-H.L. Mencken

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