“Herbivores ate well 'cause their food did never run.” - Phish
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‘They couldn’t hit an Elephant from this dist…!’
Last words of General John Sedgwick
“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
“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?”
The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.
“It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.” --George Bernard Shaw
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
“I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt or a truth that anyone would believe.” - Mark Twain
Saint Eutychus
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“I’m going to memorize your name and throw my head away.”
-Oscar Levant, whoever the hell that is.
How could people consider Volataire or Twain obscure?
“The revolution will not be televised.”
The OP didn’t necessarily call for obscure people but for “quotes that are really good but not widely known.”
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“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.
“She was gone, and I was an amputated leg”
Harlan Ellison, describing the feelings of a man searching for his wife
“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
*I slept like a baby…
I woke up crying, with shit in my pants.*
“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.”
“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.”
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Jeremy…
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine - Kurt Vonnegut
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?
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