Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[FlorenceArt]

Yes, me too!

[carpetmojo]

"Never kick a man when he's down ?

Name me a better time. "

John Cooper Clarke.

[gmw]

Most of us come from Dullborough who come from a country town. As I left Dullborough in the days when there were no railroads in the land, I left it in a stage-coach. Through all the years that have since passed, have I ever lost the smell of the damp straw in which I was packed - like game - and forwarded, carriage paid, to the Cross Keys, Wood-street, Cheapside, London? There was no other passenger, and I consumed by sandwiches in solitude and dreariness, and it rained hard all the way, and I thought life sloppier than I had expected to find it.

-- Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller (1859).

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by gmw

Most of us come from Dullborough who come from a country town. As I left Dullborough in the days when there were no railroads in the land, I left it in a stage-coach. Through all the years that have since passed, have I ever lost the smell of the damp straw in which I was packed - like game - and forwarded, carriage paid, to the Cross Keys, Wood-street, Cheapside, London? There was no other passenger, and I consumed by sandwiches in solitude and dreariness, and it rained hard all the way, and I thought life sloppier than I had expected to find it.

-- Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller (1859).

[carpetmojo]

Unless the mix is wrong ......
Ooops, sorry, not a quote, just me....

[WT Sharpe]

....."This is no joke. I am enclosing a joke so you will be able to tell the difference."
..........— Woody Allen, Without Feathers (1986), "Match Wits with Inspector Ford."

[BenG]

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place
~ H. L. Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916

[WT Sharpe]

.....Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
..........— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 – 1900), German philosopher. Beyond Good and Evil (1886), Aphorism 146.

[BenG]

"Sodomy non sapiens," said Albert under his breath.
"What does that mean?"
"Means I'm buggered if I know."

-- Terry Pratchett, Mort

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by BenG

"Sodomy non sapiens," said Albert under his breath.
"What does that mean?"
"Means I'm buggered if I know."

-- Terry Pratchett, Mort

[Angst]

Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that.
--George Carlin

[DiapDealer]

"It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook."

—Jo Walton, Among Others

[BenG]

And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again, he would never carve another piece of wood or help us raise doves and pigeons in the backyard or play the violin the way he did, or tell us jokes the way he did. He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them the way he did. He was individual. He was an important man. I’ve never gotten over his death. Often I think what wonderful carvings never came to birth because he died. How many jokes are missing from the world, and how many homing pigeons untouched by his hands? He shaped the world. He did things to the world. The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on.

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

[maxiart]

"There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by BenG

And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again, he would never carve another piece of wood or help us raise doves and pigeons in the backyard or play the violin the way he did, or tell us jokes the way he did. He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them the way he did. He was individual. He was an important man. I’ve never gotten over his death. Often I think what wonderful carvings never came to birth because he died. How many jokes are missing from the world, and how many homing pigeons untouched by his hands? He shaped the world. He did things to the world. The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on.

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

And a fitting RIP for Mr. Bradbury ....