Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

I think that's the first time I've ever heard myself made to sound better by comparison to doctors...

You always need something each day to make you feel good about yourself.

BOb

Originally Posted by BenG

The past is never dead. It's not even past.
-- William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun (1951)

"About the past,
It's going to last" Ogden Nash

Some bonus Ogden Nash quotes:

"Candy is dandy,
but liquor is quicker."

"I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance,
Were it not for making a living,
which is rather a nouciance."

"One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence"

"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,
and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."

"Too clever is dumb."

[TenaciousBadger]

One more to the collection:

"Our fathers claimed, by obvious madness moved, man’s innocent until his guilt is proved. They would have known, had they not been confused; he’s innocent until he is accused."

---Ogden Nash

[BenG]

Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

- Robert Louis Stevenson, Requiem

[WT Sharpe]

...When I die, bury me deep;
......A pound of marijuana at my feet.
...Put papers and matches in my hand,
......And I'll find my own way to the promised land.
..........— Anon. Seen on a bathroom wall.

[Phogg]

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime: the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

Robert A. Heinlein ~ Time Enough For Love

One I use often.

[kennyc]

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
-- Carl Sagan, Cosmos (1980)

[BenG]

"Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar

[astrangerhere]

Originally Posted by BenG

"Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar

"Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used, till they are seasoned." -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

[kennyc]

“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”

—from The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

[astrangerhere]

Originally Posted by kennyc

“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”

—from The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

glad to see the continued Faulkner love

[kennyc]

He's a GOD of Literature.

....um....wait should that be in the P&R subforum?

[kennyc]

"One can educate the ignorant. Fools are beyond help."
-pdurrant in (a posting on MR)

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by kennyc

He's a GOD of Literature.

....um....wait should that be in the P&R subforum?

Wasn't he the one you were supposed to read AFTER Ulysses?

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Wasn't he the one you were supposed to read AFTER Ulysses?

Yes his "The Sound and The Fury" I've read about half of it some 10 years ago, but can probably just pick it up and go from there!



Actually I'll start at the beginning and re-read it.

I tried again reading Joyce's "The Dead" last week and just couldn't do it....Got several pages in and it just wasn't doing anything for me...