Favourite Quotations & Bon Mots

[Angrboda]

"The intellectual advancement of man depends upon how often he can exchange an old superstition
for a new truth. The church never enabled a human being to make even one of these exchanges;
on the contrary, all her power has been used to prevent them."

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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It’s now very common to hear people say, “I’m rather offended by that”, as if that gives them certain rights.
It’s no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase.
“I’m offended by that.” Well, so fucking what?

— Stephen Fry

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“Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity,
and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking
all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest,
and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.”

— Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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I was making love to this girl and she started crying.
I said, 'Are you going to hate yourself in the morning?'
She said, 'No, I hate myself right now.'

— Rodney Dangerfield

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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."

— Plato

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“Remain pure all your life; guard your own honor and never transgress the honor of others.
Be very tranquil, but when necessary, harden your heart.”

— Bhuvaneshwari Devi, mother of Swami Vivekananda

[Faith No More]

I love the Catch-22 quote.

[Shell B]

"All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand." ~ George Orwell

[Tobie]

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J.R.R Tolkien

[Angrboda]

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J.R.R Tolkien

Give up sainthood, renounce wisdom,
And it will be a hundred times better for everyone.

Laozi, The Tao Te Ching, Chapter 19

[Brian37]

"The first person to hurl an insult instead of a stone, started civilization" Freud

"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions" Thomas Jefferson

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

"Personal certitude has an inverse relationship with truth" (Tarquin St John Shagnasty)


"All generalities are lies " (anon)

[Tempus]

"If two people always agree then one of them is unnecessary."

"...quotes are often taken out of context." - unknown

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Evelyn Beatrice Hall

"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses." - Lenny Bruce

"You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant." - Benjamin Franklin Fairless

[Tiberius]

"...quotes are often taken out of context." - unknown

Bullshit. You took that completely out of context.

[Tempus]

"...quotes are often taken out of context." - unknown

Bullshit. You took that completely out of context.

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