# Best Mock-Profundity **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 6, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mock-profundity/527898 "2010-02-06T03:53:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mock-profundity/527898/41 "2010-02-10T21:46:18Z")
I don’t know where we’re going, but we’re making great time. People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like. - attrib. to Lincoln, who was asked to blurb a book Be the ball. Love means never having to say you’re sorry. > [@Nathan\_S](#): > > Benjamin Franklin: _Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy._ > > Although I don’t know how “mock” profound that is. I kinda agree with him.😃 He was actually talking about wine: [http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2008/09/15/misquote-ben-franklin-on-beer.htm](http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2008/09/15/misquote-ben-franklin-on-beer.htm) ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mock-profundity/527898/42 "2010-02-10T22:00:06Z")
> [@The\_Bith\_Shuffle](#): > > I like quotes that have an air of profundity but actually do not contain any. Such lines may even be meant to mock the concept of profundity. Does anyone have any good ones to share? A quote from Winston Churchill at the end of the film _The Battle of Britain_, appearing on the screen as the glorious, uplifting end title music swells to a climax: “This is not the end, or even the beginning of the end, but it may be the end of the beginning.” Changed my whole opinion of the man. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mock-profundity/527898/43 "2010-02-10T22:23:06Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Sarah Palin-“Only dead fish go with the flow.” “There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.” – Former Texas Agricultural Commissioner Jim Hightower, who used the quote as the title of one of his books. Another of his works is _Swim against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow_. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mock-profundity/527898/44 "2010-02-10T23:31:34Z")
Really? No one’s linked to the [Facebook Quote Buddha](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq4iuBweZJs) yet? Or did I miss it? ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mock-profundity/527898/45 "2010-02-11T03:18:52Z")
Each day’s better than the next! Dom - There’s Something about Mary ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mock-profundity/527898/46 "2010-02-11T10:44:15Z")
My father used to say: “Ha ha, lachte de graaf op zijn Spaans, daar hij geen Nederlands kende, hetgeen een zeer goede opmerking was.” Translation from the Dutch: “Ha ha, chuckled the count in Spanish, as he didn’t speak any Dutch, which was a very good point.” I often quote my father and always get lots of blank looks. but I think it is beautiful. A google search threw up multiple hits for “Ha ha, chuckled the count in Spanish”, followed by all sorts of non-sequiturs (my fave: “And he threw his suntanned false teeth on the table”), though not my father’s version. Origin appears to be unknown. ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mock-profundity/527898/47 "2010-02-11T15:24:49Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Sarah Palin-“Only dead fish go with the flow.” Hope and change. Change you can believe in. (shrug) ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mock-profundity/527898/48 "2010-02-11T15:26:01Z")
Existence exists. – _Ayn Rand_ ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mock-profundity/527898/49 "2010-02-11T15:30:28Z")
“Half of humanity is dumber than average” (not deep – but rather frightening nonetheless! :eek: ) ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mock-profundity/527898/50 "2010-02-11T16:13:36Z")
And fully three quarters of that lower fifty percent are posting comments on YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-mock-profundity/527898/51 "2010-02-11T16:24:06Z")
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