# Non-sensical, "profound" quotes, I pit thee. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 17, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586 "2004-05-17T12:56:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/41 "2004-05-19T14:12:31Z")
All things are possible - if you have more variables than you have equations. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/42 "2004-05-19T18:29:06Z")
"man without tissue takes matter into his own hands. " _sniff_ ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/43 "2004-05-19T20:59:51Z")
[QUOTE=Podkayne] Uh, wow. First of all, it’s "Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. " Keats. “Ode on a **Grecian Urn.** ”… QUOTE] So… what’s a _Grecian urn?_ ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/44 "2004-05-19T21:03:54Z")
“Confucious say: man who stand on toilet is high on pot.” ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/45 "2004-05-19T23:31:11Z")
From [http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=boiling\_blood](http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=boiling_blood) > [@](#): > > _The grass is always greener on the other side:_ > > If the grass is greener on the other side, then the guy with the greener grass doesn’t think your grass is greener now does he, asshole? The message that this proverb is trying to stumble through is that everything always looks more attractive when you don’t have it. I’m sure there are millionaires crying themselves to sleep every night because they don’t live in a trailer park. Just face it: sometimes nobody envies you. There has to be a bottom and that bottom is probably you. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/46 "2004-05-19T23:35:39Z")
Okay, he said both. The ‘mistake’ line is the one I’ve heard quoted more often. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/47 "2004-05-19T23:42:43Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > So… what’s a _Grecian urn?_ About 10 dinares a day. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/48 "2004-05-20T02:29:39Z")
“The higher, the fewer.” – Alexander, son of Worf ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/49 "2004-05-20T03:15:21Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > > [@BMalion](#): > > > > So… what’s a Grecian urn? > > About 10 dinares a day. No, no. The correct answer is, “Only a Roman knows.” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/50 "2004-05-20T04:28:37Z")
“The world is too much with us. Getting and spending, we lay waste to our powers…” It’s not as if navel gazing hasn’t been TRIED for CENTURIES with ABSOLUTELY no results! Except for some thoroughly gazed navels, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/51 "2004-05-20T06:22:42Z")
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but… [ul] [li]historians repeat each other.”[/li][li]it keeps using the same damned words."[/li][li]your history prof’s droning all sounds the same."[/li][li]never draw to an inside straight."[/li][/ul] My pet peeve: “Send not to know for whom the bell tolls: It tolls for thee.” – John Donne, idiot poet I understand what he was getting at, but it makes no logical sense. If the church bell is tolling for you, you wouldn’t be able to send anyone anywhere, now would you? And if it isn’t tolling for you, why shouldn’t you want to know who just died? Bah. Romantics and their kin belabor fools. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/52 "2017-10-08T21:27:09Z")
I think this is from Mark Twain: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does harmonize.” Anyhow, I like it. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/53 "2017-10-08T21:36:17Z")
I accidentally resurrected a zombie. Sorry, my bad. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/54 "2017-10-08T22:51:49Z")
Time wounds all heels… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/55 "2017-10-08T23:08:03Z")
“What does a yellow light mean?” ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/56 "2017-10-08T23:10:54Z")
PostSecret is awful for this. There are quotes meant to sound deep but are wildly impractical. One is: \* “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.” \* Umm…because humans have jobs, responsibilities, bills to pay, families, etc.? Should we all up and abandon our families in the name of pursuing a deep inner yearn to wander? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/57 "2017-10-08T23:13:10Z")
> [@Civil\_Guy](#): > > I accidentally resurrected a zombie. Sorry, my bad. If you resurrect a zombie the zombie may resurrect you. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/58 "2017-10-08T23:24:16Z")
He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/59 "2017-10-08T23:25:16Z")
When you care what is outside, what is inside cares for you. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sensical-profound-quotes-i-pit-thee/245586/60 "2017-10-08T23:26:42Z")
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