QUOTATIONS THAT BARTLETT MISSED
(some with good reason)
We are surrounded by a deep and abiding stupidity.
– Bob Herbert, New York Times New Service
Great God, this is an awful place!
– Robert Falcon Scott at the South Pole
Life is full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unhappiness – and it’s all over much too quickly.
– Woody Allen
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
– William Butler Yeats
My Name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father -- prepare to die!
– Mandy Patenkin
The brain is easily the least intelligent organ in the body.
– Dave Barry
If the human brain were simple enough for us to understand, we would be too simple to understand it.
– one of the pharmacologists who developed Prozac
Grab life by the beans.
– TV commercial for 100% Columbian coffee
There’s no such thing as Nihilism.
– Dr Speedbump
Give a man a fish and he eats today. Teach him to fish and you get rid of him for the whole weekend.
– Zenna Schaffer
You basically say to your body: "I am going to climb this thing and I’m taking you with me."
– Beck Weathers, about climbing Mt. Everest
Keep your stick on the ice.
– Red Green
Despite all its faults, this is the best of all possible worlds. People notwithstanding, it has much to offer.
– Rod Serling
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
– Al Gore
The Federal Reserve specializes in precision guesswork.
– Alan Greenspan
The achievement of middle age is itself an achievement.
– Edward Abbey
Either it is a well arranged universe or a chaos huddled together, but still a universe.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Art thou angry with him whose arm-pits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul? What good will this anger do thee?
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
– Goethe
If you cut your foot off with that lawnmower, don’t coming running to me.
– Erma Bombeck
Free Will. It is a bitch.
– Al Pacino, in “Devil’s Advocate”
You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The thought of suicide is a great consolation; one can get through many a bad night with it.
– Friedriche Nietzche
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
– Leslie Poles Hartley
The point of therapy is to lead a normally disillusioned life.
– Carl Jung
Death is the cure for all diseases.
– Thomas Browne
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way.
– Mark Twain
Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
-- Emily Dickenson
I have so much to do that I’m going to bed.
– Savoyard Proverb
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