Passing Remarks...

"...always try to believe seven impossible things before breakfast."
-Alice in Wonderland

"...character...that's what you have in the dark!"
-Dr. Emilio Lizardo, Buckaroo Banzai

"There is so much good in the worst of us, and bad in the best of us, it ill behooves the most of us to talk about the rest of us."
-Piers Anthony by way of ???

Religion "is the audacious attempt to conceive of the entire universe as being humanly significant."
-Peter Berger

"You laugh, Monkeyman?!"
-Dr. Emilio Lizardo, Buckaroo Banzai

"'Give me back my hats, you bad, bad monkey!' But the monkey would only mock the hat seller."

"'Fuck you...' 'No. FUCK. YOU!'"
-The Breakfast Club

"If I wait just a second more, I know I'll forget what I came here for."
-Yaz

"Always take a newborn baby upstairs afore you take him downstairs, otherwise you'll incline him downwards."
-Watts, (from Blue Highway)

"South Carolina water what come up of his own mind."
-Blue Highway

"Don't look back. Someone might be gaining on you."
-Satchel Paige

"The way two people make love summarizes the state of their relationship."


"People who fold their clothes neatly and then settle down to business have failed to notice that sex is not sensible."


"There is another way to go through life besides being pulled through it kicking and screaming."
-Hugh Prather, Notes on Love and Courage

"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something." "Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again, too. Who decides?"
-Lazarus Long, on politics

"God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these divine attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills."
-Lazarus Long, on religion

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
-Lazarus Long, on living life

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
-Lazarus Long, on stupidity

"Dear, don't bore him with trivia or burden him with your past mistakes. The happiest way to deal with a man is never to tell him anything he does not need to know."
"Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires." -Lazarus Long, on, well...

"Never try to outstubborn a cat."
-Lazarus Long, on feline superiority

 

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

-Voltaire

"If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian."

-Mark Twain

"Most of us spend the first 6 days of each week
sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday
and pray for a crop failure."
- Fred Allen

"God is an iron (if a glutton is one who practices gluttony)."

-Spider Robinson

"The way to make money is to start your own religion."

-L. Ron Hubbard, 1954

"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."

-Charlie Brown

"Minimalist seeks same"

 

"Nil Illegitimi carborundem (Don't let the bastards get you down)"

"When in danger, or in doubt,
Run in circles, scream and shout"

 

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

-William James

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. "

-Mark Twain

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