Quotes from literature (or other sources)

[+ oldNbusted]

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

[+ E.T.Bass]

She should have died hereafter;

There would have been a time for such a word.

— To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury

Signifying nothing.

 

 

— Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-28)

 

 

 

Signs are taken for wonders. "We would see a sign!"

The word within a word, unable to speak a word,

Swaddled with darkness.

 

 

 

[loremipsum]

“That was Babyshambles with ‘Fuck Forever.’ I find that suggestion obscene and impractical.”

 

-Simon Amstell, Never Mind the Buzzcocks

[loremipsum]

“We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.”

 

-John Dewey

[loremipsum]

“Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.” -Chinese proverb

[loremipsum]

“Put on some lipstick, pour yourself a drink, and pull yourself together.”

 

-Liz Taylor

[+ E.T.Bass]

Dear god, if you are a season, let it be the one I passed through

to get here.

Here. That's all I wanted to be.

 

I promise.

 

~ Ocean Vuong

[+ g56whiz]

82 posts over 5 pages and no Winston Churchill?

 

“The fear of dying is not so much the fear of death so much as the fear of not having lived.”

[+ E.T.Bass]

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I was dreaming in my dreaming

God knows a purer view

As I surrender to my sleeping

I commit my dream to you

 

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[+ poolboy48220]

President Calvin Coolidge was known for not being very talkative. A young woman sitting next to him at a dinner party confided to him she had bet she could get at least three words of conversation from him. Without looking at her he quietly retorted, “You lose.”

[+ g56whiz]

President Calvin Coolidge was known for not being very talkative. A young woman sitting next to him at a dinner party confided to him she had bet she could get at least three words of conversation from him. Without looking at her he quietly retorted, “You lose.”

Feeling a bit under the weather one Sunday, Mrs Coolidge sent silent Cal to church on his own. Upon return she asked Cal what the sermon was about. “Sin” he replied. “What did the preacher say about sin” she asked. Cal responded “He was agin it.

[+ oldNbusted]

“If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.” ― Lorne Michaels

[sydneyboy]

“Home is heaven and orgies are vile but you need on orgy once in a while.”

-Ogden Nash

[sydneyboy]

“Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.”

-Ogden Nash

[sydneyboy]

82 posts over 5 pages and no Winston Churchill?

 

“The fear of dying is not so much the fear of death so much as the fear of not having lived.”

Vaguely on the same theme:

“Eternal life? I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.”

-Quentin Crisp

[sydneyboy]

“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.”

-Quentin Crisp

[sydneyboy]

Al Jolson’s wedding night with his second wife. They arrived at the motel and the proprietor looked at his wife and said to Al “sir, what arrangements would you like for your daughter” To which Al replied “What do you mean? That’s not my daughter she’s too young.”

[sydneyboy]

A wire sent to a club:

“Please accept my resignation. I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member.”

-Groucho Marx

[sydneyboy]

Somebody once asked a psychiatrist what was the difference between a neurotic and a psychotic. The psychiatrist replied that a neurotic thinks there are castles in the air and a psychotic lives in a castle in the air. The person asked the psychiatrist what he did for them. Oh he replied I collect the rent.

[+ poolboy48220]

Somebody once asked a psychiatrist what was the difference between a neurotic and a psychotic. The psychiatrist replied that a neurotic thinks there are castles in the air and a psychotic lives in a castle in the air. The person asked the psychiatrist what he did for them. Oh he replied I collect the rent.

Comedian Rita Rudner had a riff on this. "You've heard that neurotics build dream castles in the air, and psychotics live in them? My mother cleans them."

[sydneyboy]

Many years ago I was listening to Federal Parliament on the radio with then leader of the Labor Party Arthur Caldwell was making a speech. A political opponent was constantly interjecting and the Speaker finally called this member to order. To which Arthur Caldwell responded "Don't worry Mr Speaker, the honourable gentleman was born a fool and has been losing ground ever since.''

[sydneyboy]

The Boy Scout Movement:

“Children dressed as idiots led by idiots dressed as children.”

-Oscar Wilde

[loremipsum]

Pretty well-known:

 

“Religion is the opiate of the masses.”

 

-Karl Marx

[sydneyboy]

“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.”

-Voltaire

[sydneyboy]

“The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.”

-Quentin Crisp