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