As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
@edgarblythe,
Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
William S. Burroughs
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
~Joseph Addison
The Spectator No. 73
Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.
- Maryon Pearson
@eurocelticyankee,
Arguments weaker than soup made from the shadow of a pigeon that died of starvation.
Abraham Lincoln, Illinois lawyer
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.
Benjamin Disraeli
@edgarblythe,
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the curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
the lowing herd winds softly o'er the lea,
the plough man homeward plods his weary way,
and leaves the world in darkness and to me.
Thomas Gray
Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.
Fritz Leiber
“The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.”
Newt Gingrich
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.”
W. H. Auden
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
~ Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
"A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution." ~ Hazel Nicholson
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the
curious delusion that some families are older than others.
~W.H. Auden
"As It Seemed to Us"
@msolga,
'Forget about the ape, you don't need him.' H.S. Thompson again, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
"Hello, again. It's me, Julian Assange. I've taken over your airwaves, inside a British prison. How did I get a camera into a British prison? Maybe you weren't listening: I'm Julian Assange."
-Actor portraying Julian Assange on a December 2010 broadcast of Saturday Night Live.
"Going cold turkey isn't as delicious as it sounds."
Homer Simpson.
"When you call me that, SMILE."
Owen Wister
@edgarblythe,
'Ignore alien orders.' Joe Strummer
"Where one burns books, one will, in the end, burn people."
- Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet
@wmwcjr,
"Look, yonder, my footsteps in the dust."
Maqueda in Queen Sheba's Ring by Rider Haggard.
