I saved all these bits because they tickled my mind or my funny bone. If I didn't agree with the sentiment expressed, I at least admired the way it was expressed, and the way it made me mull the topic. (I am amused that some of the very old political comments still apply.)
Note - all titles are in italics, regardless of whether it is for a book, story, magazine, TV show, whatever. I don't discriminate. If something is unattributed, either it is a common saying, or I don't remember where I found it and I apologize to the author. If it is attributed, it is a direct quote, warts and all.
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Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
Life is uncertain. Order your dessert first.
Little girls grow up to be women. Little boys grow up to be ... big boys.
There are a lot of people who like to be told what to think. They are more dangerous than the people who tell them.
On abstract art: The subject is limited, and there's no emotional connection.
George Orwell: The past belongs to those who control the present.
Kenneth W. Sollitt: That which one man receives without working for, another man works for without receiving.
Swedish proverb: God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
He was born on third base and decided he hit a triple.
His idea of a good farm program is Hee Haw.
Maya Angelou: You did then what you knew how to do. When you knew better, you did better.
W. Somerset Maugham(?): My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
From Something to Talk About: Poison - homeopathic aversion therapy.
Definition: Retromingency - urinating backward.
Definition: Perfluxity - the feeling that you are drowning in a sea of information.
From Babylon Five: The future should come with a label, "Some Assembly Required".
Me: You don't fall in love with a person. You fall in love with the way you feel when you're with that person.
Sophocles: Truly, to tell lies is not honorable. But when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Steve Wozniak, Newsweek 2/19/96: I read the papers to find out who I am, so I can be it.
A girl has to have a life goal before she starts dating boys, or boys become the goal.
Me: Divorce is tortious, tortuous, and torturous.
Isaac Asimov: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Deepak Chopra, quoting a Vedic scholar: I am that; you are that; this is that; that is all there is, and if you understand that, you understand all.
Those who think history repeats itself will be forced to relive it.
Jay Kolb: I may be wrong, but I am never in doubt.
Jay Kolb, on surveys taken on college campuses: College is not "real world". In fact, you can't even see it from there.
Lewis Grizzard: We ought to keep the rich as rich as possible, because nobody poor was ever able to afford to give anybody else a job.
Marge Simpson: We can't afford to shop at any store that has a philosophy.
Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses: When there is great suffering, ... everyone suffers the same. But when there is peace, no one wants to be the same. The rich no longer share. The less rich envy and steal. ... [E]veryone is seeking luxuries, pleasures....
Gandhi: There is enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
Jerald Bevens, in a letter to Newsweek: We need our heroes, but soon there will be no more. Our world will not grow men with the credentials necessary to survive [the press'] scrutiny.
PMS - the time just before a woman's menstrual period when she acts like a man.
Laverne on Empty Nest: Those who help those who won't help themselves are stupid.
David Gerrold, The Martian Child: It's almost always dangerous to be right too soon.
Epitaph: This is merely a temporary setback.
Me, epitaph: Continued next page....
Dean Koontz, Mr. Murder: We sense that life is a dark comedy and maybe we can live with that. However, because the whole thing is written for the entertainment of the gods, too many of the jokes go right over our heads.
Me: Women like their men childlike, but not childish.
Chris Darden's Nanny: You have to expect as much from yourself as you do for yourself.
Terry Bisson, The Edge of the Universe: [Marriage is] about being together some of the time and apart some of the time. About entering and leaving together. About being free to follow your own tastes yet always conscious that there is a seat saved for you beside the other.
Me: One can be spiritual without being religious. One can be religious without being spiritual. They are two different things, with a casual, not causal, relationship.
Frank Pittman, MD: Infidelity isn't about whom you lie with. It's whom you lie to.
Charles Manning, letter in the Mensa Bulletin: Religious freedom means not only freedom to practice your religion, but also freedom from being forced to practice someone else's.
~~Silk
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