Wise men make proverbs, only fools repeat them

[fences_like_a_lemur]

Sometimes a dragon maybe preferable to a squid. Just as a novel may be to a textbook.

~Unknown -at least by me-

[ParryRiposte]

Commercial rock ’n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music … an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

- Ralph Ellison

[fences_like_a_lemur]

How is dark matter like the Hundred Years' War? The war lasted 116 years, and dark matter may not be dark.

-George Musser

[SSMSabreMN]

"If you shy away from the fire for fear of being burnt, you will freeze to death on a cold desert night."

Lyndsey Michaele Poore

A cynic is a person who found out Santa Claus didn't exist and is still pissed off about it

Unknown

My favorite of all-

There is a flaw with words, they always force usto feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment
Don Juan(Carlos Castaneda)

[ParryRiposte]

I tend to see the glass as being half full, you tend to see the glass as being something to hit people with!
- Lewis, H2O: Just Add Water

[GypsyScot]

Able was I, ere I saw Elbe - Napolean [ but by then he'd had lost his marbles, what does this cryptic quote mean?]

"Able was I, ere, I saw Elba" I love palindromes

Edit: "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance baffle them with bulls**t"
~my family motto

[SSMSabreMN]

""Nothing, so it seems to me," said the stranger, "is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life.... The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of ? of things longer.""
Jerome Klapka Jerome

[fences_like_a_lemur]

Without bread, all is misery.

~William Corbett

[SSMSabreMN]

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
~Prospero, The Tempest William Shakespere

I am nothing to them. I'm only a list of differences... a list of adjectives to describe what they see when they look at me... a collection of words to define themselves as whatever I'm not.
~Brian James
Dirty Liar

"-I want my kids growing up with respect for things. How else will they learn?
-What difference does it make? When you die they'll throw dirt on you anyways."
~ The Odd Couple (Gender Reversed)

"I'm writing again, these letters to you aren't much I know. But I'm not sleeping, you're not here... the thought stops my heart... do you notice I'm gone? Where do you run so far?"
~Letters To You -Finch

[fences_like_a_lemur]

The universe is flux, life is opinion.

~Marcus Aurelius

[erik_blank]

"Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excssive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the na¶ve, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as empty, meaningless, or dishonest, and scorn to use them. No matter how pure their motives, they thereby throw sand into the machinery that does not work too well at best."
- Lazarus Long in Time Enough For Love....The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
Robert A. Heinlein

"I think you have missed the most alarming symptom of all. This one I shall tell you. But go back and search for it. Examine it. Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms as you have named... But a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than a riot.

This symptom is especially serious in that an individual displaying it never thinks of it as a sign of ill health but as proof of his/her strength. Look for it. Study it. It is too late to save this culture - this worldwide culture, not just the freak show here in California. Therefore we must now prepare the monasteries for the coming Dark Age. Electronic records are too fragile; we must again have books, of stable inks and resistant paper."
Friday and Dr. Baldwin in Friday
- Robert H. Heinlein

[fences_like_a_lemur]

One man’s leg garments are another man’s symbol of oppression and tyranny in the modern era. Down with pants!

~Unknown

[SSMSabreMN]

"When we are young we set our hearts upon some beautiful idea. Maybe something from a holy book or french philosophia."
~Philosophia, The Guggenheim Grotto

[ParryRiposte]

"O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all whooping!"

- Shakespeare

[Timo]

It's not that the glass is half full or half empty, I just want to know who's been drinking out of my cup! -Some one, I think

[fences_like_a_lemur]

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

~Stephen King

[Shi no Tenshi]

If you can fool your friends, you can fool your enemies.

[Angwilwileth]

If you want to forget your life troubles, have your feet hurt.
-Chinese Proverb

[fences_like_a_lemur]

For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of nature.

~Robert Bridges

[fences_like_a_lemur]

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

~Alice Walker