“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
― Bertrand Russell
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein
@edgarblythe,
“Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.”
― Joss Whedon
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
― John Lennon
"In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend ... if I may even flatter myself that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated."
—from the farewell address of George Washington
“Ellison’s Theorem: the further right your position, the less telling your satire. A corollary of which is that you can’t lampoon anywhere near where you stand, because you’d annihilate your own troops.”
― Harlan Ellison, The Glass Teat
“There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.” ~Carl Sandburg
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski
“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
“Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it?
Ford: We're safe.
Arthur: Oh good.
Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.
Arthur: Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
“What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.”
― Will Rogers
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands."
— Oscar Wilde
@thack45,
Overheard this morning:
"Donuts? Kids love those things," millenial (definitely childless) aunt # to her obvious 5 year old nephew stepping into the Dunkin Donuts.
“Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.”
― Alexander Pushkin, Tales of Belkin
“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
— John W. Campbell Jr
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
