# Post a random quote **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 7, 2012, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073 "2012-04-07T12:08:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/101 "2012-04-11T16:33:03Z")
“Bubba didn’t do it!” ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/102 "2012-04-11T16:56:07Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > “The Miracle of the Dancing Bear is not that the bear dances well. It is that the bear dances at all.” > > This has been in my head a lot in the past few days, and I would like to know where it came from. It’s not original with me. A Google search was inconclusive. Samuel Johnson said something similar about women preaching - > [@](#): > > [Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.](http://www.samueljohnson.com/dogwalk.html) Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/103 "2012-04-11T17:16:18Z")
The bitch hit me with a toaster ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/104 "2012-04-11T17:54:26Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > In the absence of consensus chaos is better than bad rules. This needs to be the opening, and ending, speech of any session discussing SOPA/CISPA. * * * _How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live._ – Henry David Thoreau – ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/105 "2012-04-11T17:55:02Z")
“Do you all have amnesia?! HE DIDN’T GET OUT OF THE COCK-A-DOODIE CAAAAR!” ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/106 "2012-04-11T19:23:27Z")
> [@](#): > > The person who alwasy does as he wants is not free; he is the slave of his appetites. Only those who choose what they will do are truly free. .. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/107 "2012-04-11T20:23:58Z")
“They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/108 "2012-04-12T02:04:26Z")
“Fool me once, shame on… shame on you. Fool me… you can’t get fooled again.” ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/109 "2012-04-12T06:27:58Z")
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. ---
**Author:** ![SticksAndString](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@SticksAndString](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SticksAndString)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/110 "2012-04-12T10:57:04Z")
Leonard: Sure, the more the merrier. Sheldon: Wait, no. That’s a false equivalency. More does not equal merry. If there was 2000 people in this apartment right now, would we be celebrating? No, we’d be suffocating. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/111 "2012-04-12T11:38:30Z")
Just read this in a Reader’s Digest (perhaps the most self-referential magazine title ever): “Memory is a complicated thing, a relative of truth but not its twin!” Apologies to the author for forgetting his or her name. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/112 "2012-04-13T07:08:09Z")
“France is a nation full of hairdressers and dance masters.” “We will astonish the world with the magnitude of our ingratitude.” ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/113 "2012-04-13T11:50:49Z")
From a recent crime blotter > [@](#): > > The plunger was recovered ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/114 "2012-04-13T18:56:57Z")
> [@](#): > > I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Hemingway 🙂 I’m more of a listener too, fwiw. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/115 "2012-04-19T23:48:12Z")
“The moon shape of a palm tree” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/116 "2012-04-19T23:52:58Z")
“I wanna be sedated.” – The Ramones ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/117 "2012-04-19T23:57:32Z")
“It’s science.” ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/118 "2012-04-20T00:09:18Z")
“_We_ domesticated _them_, and that makes _us_ responsible”. Me - 2008 Thanks Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/119 "2012-04-20T00:31:47Z")
_This…_ _is American Idol._ ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073/120 "2012-04-20T02:31:19Z")
"Right now you are my problem. Don’t make me pull out my registration card to prove to you that I am a Slapaho from Kickabitch Creek because you will not like what happens when I do. " – **Spaz Cat** in the workplace griping thread. I really want one of those cards! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-random-quote/618073.md?page=7)