Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[WT Sharpe]

.....A man may be a fool and not know it—but not if he is married.
..........— H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), American editor, critic, lexicographer. A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing (1949).

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....A man may be a fool and not know it—but not if he is married.
..........— H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), American editor, critic, lexicographer. A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing (1949).

[WT Sharpe]

Personally I would add a qualifier such as "unbridled", "unrestrained", or "de-regulated" to the C-word, but this is still food for thought:

.....What is surprising — and disappointing — is how easily manipulated the Tea Party movement has been, and how willing its followers seem to be to have their rage channeled against the chosen targets of self-interested and opportunistic leaders.
.....Socialism. Deficit spending. Healthcare reform. Barack Obama.
.....The current plight of the middle class had been unfolding — and accelerating — for four decades, and this is the best Dick Armey and Sarah Palin and Glen Beck can come up with? And the millions of people embracing the Tea Party creed are willing to accept such blatantly shallow explanations for their plight?
.....The truth is that the plight of the middle class is a product of the triumph of capitalism, and is the direct product of deliberate national policies that have reflected the consensus of the American political and corporate establishment.
..........— David Paul, author, president of the Fiscal Strategies Group. "Tea Party Movement Obsession With Socialism Misses the Cause of Middle Class Plight," Huffington Post, October 10, 2010.

[BenG]

Life is like a B-movie: you don’t want to leave in the middle of it, but
you don’t want to see it again.

--Media mogul Ted Turner

[WT Sharpe]

.....A former girlfriend remembers Bill Gates as having bad breath. He remembers her as not having 100 billion dollars.
..........— Conan [Christopher] O'Brien (1963 - ), American television host, comedian, producer. Quoted in Comedy Writing Secrets by Melvin Helitzer with Mark Shatz (2005).

[WT Sharpe]

.....Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
.....God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
..........— Alexander Pope (1688–1744), English poet. Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton. Quoted in John Bartlett (1820–1905), Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

[kennyc]

[WT Sharpe]

You have a strange sense of humor, Kenny!

How will you feel if someday someone laughs at your tombstone?

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

You have a strange sense of humor, Kenny!

How will you feel if someday someone laughs at your tombstone?

Thank you!

I don't plan on having a tombstone actually...

[Falcao]

The English are, for the most part, both men and women of all ages, handsome and well-proportioned; though not quite so much so, in my opinion, as it had been asserted to me, before your Magnificence went to that kingdom; and I have understood from persons acquainted with these countries, that the Scotch are much handsomer; and that the English are great lovers of themselves, and of everything belonging to them; they think that there are no other men than themselves, and no other world but England; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner, they say that "he looks like an Englishman", and that "it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishmen"; and when they partake of any delicacy with a foreigner, they ask him, "whether such a thing is made in their country?".
-- A Relation or Rather a True Account of the Island of England; with Sundry Particulars of the Customs of These People and of the Royal Revenues Under King Henry the Seventh, About the Year 1500. Translated by Charlotte Augusta Sneyd (1847).

[Falcao]

I read in some paper, years ago, that hell was meticulously shaped with eyes occupied in looking. The phrase, then, was neither from Borges nor from Sábato nor from Sartre not mine. As for me, for years I learned the art of shaving by tact, to avoid the opinion of the mirror, to come to work without the weight of another depression. It is that my image - you show that to me - advances, since time ago, separated from me. While I remain a teenager, calm, interested in my business, kind and humble by indifference and by the amazing security that there are no answers, it, my face, has aged, has become bitter, and maybe it is counting or inventing histories that are not mine but from it.
-- Juan Carlos Onetti, "My Image and Me" [Mi imagen y yo], translated by truly yours.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Thank you!

I don't plan on having a tombstone actually...

You must be like the man who planned to live forever. When told it was impossible, he simply replied, "Well, so far it's working."

[WT Sharpe]

.....Some minds are like concrete — once mixed and dried, they are permanently set.
..........— Emmanuel Kofi Mensah, president of Action for Humanism in Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. "A Giant is Coming of Age" from African-American Humanism: An Anthology, edited by Norm R. Allen, Jr. (Prometheus Books, 1991), ch. 16: "Thoughts from Africa's Leading Secular Humanist Activist."

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

You must be like the man who planned to live forever. When told it was impossible, he simply replied, "Well, so far it seems to be working."

"When nothing else is left, there is always hope." - me.


The no-tombstone response was cause I plan to be cremated in order to return to nature faster. I really think we'll need my descendants will need the real estate.

[BreezyDay]

from “The Matrix”

Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions. [Agent Brown]

I see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. [Morpheus]

I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it. [Morpheus]

Neo: Why do my eyes hurt? Morpheus: You've never used them before.