Quotes
Everyone likes a pithy quote. Admit it. I have to stop here for a moment and point out two things before I start, though. Technically, ‘Quote’ is a verb. The noun form is ‘Quotation.’ “Everyone likes a pity quotation” just doesn’t have the same ring though, right?
The second thing to mention is actually the first quote. Voltaire was a clever fellow and he knew the value of the average aphorism. Keep it in mind.
“A witty saying proves nothing.” – Voltaire
“My ego’s like my stomach, it keeps shitting what I feed it” – Cursive
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” – T.S. Elliot
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.” – Ernest Hemingway
“If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!” – Duke Ellington
Therefore, since I cannot prove a lover
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days. – Richard III, Shakespeare
“The ultimate result of shielding man from the effects of folly is to people the world with fools.” – Herbert Spencer
“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.” – Stephen Hawking
“The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.” – Norman Mailer
more later.