More bits that I saved 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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Blaise Pascal: Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Love is the only game you are sure to lose by declining to play.
Harvey Korman, on his using Viagra: It would be like putting a new flagpole on a condemned building.
Huston Smith, on faith: We may do things we think are wrong, but we cannot believe things we think are false.
There are better ways to get to the top of a tree than by sitting on an acorn.
If we really believed in recycling, we'd sign our Christmas cards in pencil.
Help! I'm being chased by killer snails!
When your hand is in the tiger's mouth, you have to pet the head.
Reality is merely a consensus.
Jay Kolb, during our very wet trip to England in 1995: The reason the Brits never had a space program is that they've never seen the sky.
If two people always agree on everything, then one of them is superfluous.
Me: Most people can work with any insanity, as long as it is consistent and predictable insanity.
The north pole is in Lapland.
Consumotherapy - buying something because it makes you feel good.
Mart Gross, biologist, onwhat behaviors get noted or discounted : Theory determines what you see.
Dean Koontz, The Face, the hero wants to arrest a motivational speaker, "on charges of felony cliché and practicing philosophy without an idea".
Dean Koontz, The Face, paraphrased: When no one ever listens to you, really listens, you can begin to lose the ability to tell whether or not you are really making sense when you talk.
Salada Tea tag line: The price is what you pay, the value is what you receive.
You can tell you've made God into your own image when He hates the same people you do.
Susan B. Anthony: I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Among wild dogs, the family that preys together stays together.
Edward R. Morrow: We must never confuse dissent with disloyalty.
I have the body of a Corvette. A '66 Corvette.
I'm not fat, I'm just fluffy.
Thomas Edison said he'd never failed; he successfully found 14,000 ways not to make a light bulb.
Gore Vidal: Half the American people have never read a newspaper. Half have never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half.
Folks who rejoice that "The system works!" are usually referring to another's parking ticket, not their own.
Jim Samuels: The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.
Gillian Kendall: Most people who believe in Hell feel sure it is not their final destination. ... Anyone who believes in hell, I find, also believes in hateful ways of avoiding it. Fear of hell tends to make women into victims, men into bullies, and everyone into line-toeing robots.
Carl Sagan: If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Isaac Asimov: The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!', but "That's funny..."
It's always been and will always be the same in the world - the horse does the work and the coachman is tipped.
Frederick Douglas: The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.
Lev Grossman, Time, 3/15/04: Why is the gift of intelligence so often given to people too stupid to know what to do with it?
Democracy is the worst system in the world - except for the other ones.
Money cannot buy love, but it can put you in a good bargaining position.
In the movie The Third Man, a character observes that thirty years of turmoil in Italy under the Borgias produced Michelangelo, Leonardo DaVinci, and the Renaissance, while five hundred years of peace in Switzerland produced the cuckoo clock.
Ray Wilson, in an Amazon.com reader review of Nickel and Dimed in America: With the enormous expansion of social programs in the 1960's and 1970's, America waged war on poverty - and poverty won.
Carl Sagan: It doesn't pay to be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
Me: We cannot get rid of terrorism by getting rid of terrorists. We must get rid of the conditions that create terrorists.
Michael Hachulski: If your customs allow you to kill on the basis of religious, racial, material, political, or ideological differences, then you are living in a barbarian society, and you are a barbarian. ...[T]hose who engage in violence even to spread seemingly well intentioned political ideologies are barbarians.
Crystal Eastman: A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.
Sharon Stone: Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
Steve Jobs: My girlfriend always laughs during sex---no matter what she's reading.
Jack Nicholson: My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
Barbara Bush (Former US First Lady): Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.
Laurens van der Post: Human beings are never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
~~Silk
Links in this entry:
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http://journals.aol.com/jaykolb/Moraine/entries/1712
http://journals.aol.com/jaykolb/Moraine/entries/1719
http://journals.aol.com/jaykolb/Moraine/entries/1737
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