Favorite Quotes
 

I guess this topic must have been there at some time in cellar. Still feel like digging the grave again (Sigh! when will this rain stop<add bored to death smiley here>).
Anyway, my all time fav:

"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird"

Life is strange, grasshopper. Here's an ice cream cone to help soften the blow.
- Flint.

"Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!"
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The Road to enlightenment is long and difficult, which is why I've asked all of you to bring sandwiches and a change of clothes.

-B. Kliban

"It must be nice to lead a life unburdened by reality."

"I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."
J. Wellington Wimpy

"Thank you, Bacon.

Sincerely,

Water Chestnut the Third"

Well I couldn't choose between several I thought of, but the cookie generator offers this:

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
--Edgar Allan Poe

I don't have the source in front of me, so this will be a paraphrase rather than a direct quote.

"No rocks causing ripples to be dropped in the pond" (The girl who kicked the hornet's list, Steig Larrson)

Here's the exact quote (but I think I actually prefer the essence of it).


"Edklinth had told her: no rings in the water. To raise the matter with the chief of Secretariat might be to chuck a very large stone into a pond."


Larsson, S 2009 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Macelhose Press, London, p. 242

"They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth"

- Plato

"That's when the fecal material hit the oscillating device."

Variation:

"The feces have definitely hit the rotating oscillator" ;)