# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 1999, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/21 "1999-10-16T05:47:00Z")
“Herbivores ate well 'cause their food did never run.” - Phish ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/22 "1999-10-15T18:30:00Z")
See the .sig * * * ‘They couldn’t hit an Elephant from this dist…!’ Last words of General John Sedgwick ---
**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, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/23 "1999-10-15T19:33:00Z")
“Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, and if you want it any different you can join a Shubert chorus”–J.P. McEvoy “Be Bold with Bananas!”–title of 1940s cookbook “I’m going to Rector’s to make a hit, and the hell with the rest!”–final line from scandalous play The Easiest Way, c1910 “Sleep is death without the responsibility”–Fran Lebowitz “That’s all there is; there isn’t any more”–Ethel Barrymore ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/24 "1999-10-15T19:39:00Z")
“It is much easier to see ourselves as better than or worse than, rather than accepting that we simply are.” - John “The Penguin” Bingham * * * Most common question I ask: “What?” Most common question I get: “Are you really hearing impaired?” ---
**Author:** ![J\_String](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@J\_String](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J_String)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/25 "1999-10-15T19:54:00Z")
The more people I meet, the more I like my dog. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/26 "1999-10-15T21:17:00Z")
“It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.” --George Bernard Shaw ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/27 "1999-10-15T21:39:00Z")
## No pain, no brain. “The world ends when I die. And as far as I’m concerned, the rest of the universe might as well call it a day too.” – Matt Groening ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/28 "1999-10-15T22:01:00Z")
“I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt or a truth that anyone would believe.” - Mark Twain * * * Saint Eutychus [www.disneyshorts.org](http://www.disneyshorts.org) ---
**Author:** ![Melatonin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@Melatonin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melatonin)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/29 "1999-10-15T23:12:00Z")
“I’m going to memorize your name and throw my head away.” -Oscar Levant, whoever the hell that is. ---
**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, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/30 "1999-10-15T23:38:00Z")
How could people consider Volataire or Twain obscure? “The revolution will not be televised.” ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 1999, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/31 "1999-10-15T23:53:00Z")
The OP didn’t necessarily call for obscure people but for “quotes that are really good but not widely known.” * * * Saint Eutychus [www.disneyshorts.org](http://www.disneyshorts.org) ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 1999, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/32 "1999-10-16T00:52:00Z")
“Why is it the greatest champions of the white race always turn out to be the worst examples of it? **YOU!** Where the fuck is your chin?” _Jesse Custer, addressing the KKK, in Preacher, by Garth Ennis_ * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![Sancho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sancho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sancho)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 1999, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/33 "1999-10-16T02:25:00Z")
“She was gone, and I was an amputated leg” Harlan Ellison, describing the feelings of a man searching for his wife ---
**Author:** ![GOD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/34f0e0/32.png) [@GOD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GOD)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 1999, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/34 "1999-10-16T05:36:00Z")
“If you take in a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.” –Mark Twain ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 1999, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/35 "1999-10-16T05:40:00Z")
\*I slept like a baby… I woke up crying, with shit in my pants.\* ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 1999, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/36 "1999-10-17T02:37:00Z")
“If it wasn’t hard everyone would do it; it’s the hard that makes it great.” From the movie “A League of Their Own.” ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 1999, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/37 "1999-10-17T03:09:00Z")
“When you’ve been around as long as I have, you know that the **only** worthwhile thing you can bring to a catfight are popcorn and a drink.” ---
**Author:** ![KCB615](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@KCB615](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KCB615)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 1999, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/38 "1999-10-17T03:38:00Z")
## See sig. Jeremy… I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine - Kurt Vonnegut ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 1999, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/39 "1999-10-17T05:22:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Coldfire: > 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.” Where does Einstein say this? I’ve heard a version of it attributed to Harlan Ellison, as follows: “The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. And hydrogen ain’t that common.” Here’s a quote from Abe Lincoln: “I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying; and for this reason; I can never be saisfied with any one who would be block-head enought to have me.” (letter to Mrs. Browning, April 1, 1838) Yes, it resembles Groucho Marx’s statement. Also note the date. How long has “April Fool’s Day” been a custom in the US? ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 1999, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510/40 "1999-10-17T05:47:00Z")
Melatonin: Oscar Levant was a piano player/composer/actor and friend of George Gershwin, and was fairly well-known in the 40s and 50s.He was famously surly. He was also, of all things, a formaldehyde addict. To be on topic, two from E.E. Cummings (not e.e. cummings): Be of love/ a little more careful/ than of everything Remember love/by frequent anguish [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-but-obscure-quotes/9510.md?page=3)