# Great but obscure quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 15, 1999, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510 "1999-10-15T01:53:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Konrad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Konrad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Konrad)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/1 "1999-10-15T01:53:00Z")
Anybody have any quotes that are really good but not widely known? “We start every day with a prayer: ‘Oh God, please don’t let me die today. Tomorrow would be so much better.’” -Fwiffo of Spathiwa ---
**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/2 "1999-10-15T02:29:00Z")
Treat every day like its your last day on earth- A lot of whimpering and cryine and asking why while curled up in a fetal ball ---
**Author:** ![keystream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a3d4f5/32.png) [@keystream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keystream)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/3 "1999-10-15T02:32:00Z")
“We are not featuring masochism this season in hell, psychic or any other kind.” - William S. Burroughs “We must find the cause of this effect, or rather this defect, for this effect defective must have cause.” - Shakespeare, _Hamlet_, spoken by Polonius ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/4 "1999-10-15T02:42:00Z")
We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. – Luciano De Crescenzo (b. 1928), Writer, author ---
**Author:** ![Fyodor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/958977/32.png) [@Fyodor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fyodor)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/5 "1999-10-15T02:49:00Z")
“Happy! Do you take me for an idiot?” - Charles De Gaulle to a journalist ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/6 "1999-10-15T03:45:00Z")
“Somebody had to do it. And it’s really pathedic that it had to be us” - Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/7 "1999-10-15T03:53:00Z")
“For every complex problem, there is a simple solution. . . and it is wrong.” —John E. E. Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton * * * Tom~ ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/8 "1999-10-15T04:00:00Z")
Descartes was one of those who think, therefore they are/Those who don’t think, but are anyway, outnumber them by far – Ogden Nash Catrandom ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy\_Greg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Cowboy\_Greg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy_Greg)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/9 "1999-10-15T04:08:00Z")
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein * * * A cubicle is just a padded cell without a door. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/10 "1999-10-15T08:33:00Z")
The best Einstein quote, albeit not so obscure: ## “There are two things in that are infinite: human stupidity and the universe. And I’m not so sure about the latter.” Coldfire * * * “You know how complex women are” - Neil Peart, Rush (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/11 "1999-10-15T09:21:00Z")
“I’m here to kick ass and chew bubblegum . . . and I’m all out of bubblegum.”–Rowdy Roddy Piper ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/12 "1999-10-15T09:30:00Z")
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of today. * * * During the whole period of written history, it is not the workers but the robbers who have been in control of the world. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/13 "1999-10-15T09:33:00Z")
Two more I’d like to share … “The state, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it has not taken from somebody.” “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.” - ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/14 "1999-10-15T09:38:00Z")
“Listen. Strange women lying in ponds, distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some pharcical aquatic ceremony !” ## Mony Python, The Holy Grail - stated by the most shabby and uneducated dark age farmer you could possibly imagine 😉 Coldfire * * * “You know how complex women are” - Neil Peart, Rush (1993) ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/15 "1999-10-15T12:17:00Z")
“A Rolodex is a wonderful substitute for actual knowledge.”----Robert Bork ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/16 "1999-10-15T14:23:00Z")
“Look at the little monkey run” – Howard Cosell. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/17 "1999-10-15T15:41:00Z")
The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they’re going to be when you kill them. – William Clayton When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. – Abraham Maslow A witty saying proves nothing. – Voltaire Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite. – John Kenneth Galbraith If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end—I shouldn’t be at all surprised. – Dorothy Parker * * * The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik ---
**Author:** ![metroshane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@metroshane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/metroshane)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/18 "1999-10-15T15:49:00Z")
‘my name is enigo montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die’ we’re all here, because we’re not all there! ---
**Author:** ![Yankee\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 1999, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/19 "1999-10-16T05:15:00Z")
“There has never been a night so dark as to hinder the coming day.” – John Brown from his prison cell “Draw near to me, you who are untaught, and lodge in my school.” – Joshua Ben Sira “It’s not my fault!” – Han Solo ---
**Author:** ![Occam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Occam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Occam)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 1999, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/20 "1999-10-16T05:16:00Z")
Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most. -Ozzy [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510.md?page=2)