# Most Genuinely Profound Quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963 "2014-06-29T21:55:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/101 "2014-08-18T14:33:56Z")
> [@ITR\_champion](#): > > The most terrifying sentence ever uttered in the English language is, “Hello! I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” > > - Ronald Reagan Saying that that is “the most terrifying sentence ever uttered in the English language” is just the words of a politician pandering for conservative votes, preaching to the choir, right? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/102 "2014-08-18T14:54:14Z")
If nothing else, I expect that “I’m from the government, and I’m here to hurt you” is far more terrifying. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/103 "2014-08-18T23:10:06Z")
It’s always darkest just before the piano falls on you. I’ve always blamed this one on my pseudonym Oliver Faltz, poor devil. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/104 "2014-08-18T23:54:48Z")
“Some days, the magic works. Some days, it doesn’t” – Old Lodge Skins (Chief Dan George) ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/105 "2014-08-19T00:56:23Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > **Tanstaafl** What my dad used to tell us all the time when we were growing up. ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/106 "2014-08-19T01:10:18Z")
“The identity of a man hovers halfway between himself and his observer.” (paraphrased) “Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.” “I have never yet known a man admit that he was either rich or asleep.” Patrick O’Brien ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/107 "2014-08-19T12:49:44Z")
“You can’t learn any younger.” (My mother, whenever I said I didn’t know how to do something.) ---
**Author:** ![Weftover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Weftover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weftover)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/108 "2014-08-20T01:32:01Z")
Sometimes silence is the best answer. The Dalai Lama [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963.md?page=5)