Wish I'd Said That!
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ROMANA: Don’t you think that’s a bit dangerous? THE DOCTOR: No, I don’t! What could possibly go — (The TARDIS lurches, knocking the Doctor over) — wrong? You know, I’ve simply got to stop saying that! Every single time I say “What could possibly go wrong?” something goes — oh! (The TARDIS lurches again, knocking […]
I never knu a man to brag ov hiz munny, or hiz pedigree, who had enny thing else worth bragging about. [I never knew a man to brag of his money, or his pedigree, who had anything else worth bragging about.]
MARCUS: There is naturally in our minds a quite insatiable longing to discover truth. [Natura inest in mentibus nostris insatiabilis quaedam cupiditas veri.] On how the soul, after death, will find happiness in contemplation of the universe. (Source (Latin)). Other translations: Our minds have naturally inplanted in them, an insatiable longing to come at the […]
A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all, the feast. Benjamin Franklin quotes this poem (and, for a change, provides the attribution) in Poor Richard Improved (1748 ed.): Herbert, the poet, says, —— a well bred guest, Will no more talk all than eat all the feast.
I don’t really worry about the young, whose excesses are confined to lecture halls and quadrangles, so much as I fear the old, whose tyrannies are legislative.
If you wish a man to commit some abominable crime, from which he would naturally recoil in horror, you first teach him loyalty to a gang of arch-criminals, and then make his crime appear to him as exemplifying the virtue of loyalty. Of this process, patriotism is the most perfect instance.
Wake me up when impending egalitarianism is a problem. In the meantime, oligarchy is eating our ass, our dreams, our country, our heritage, our democracy, our justice, and our tax code.
By seeing one thou knowest him half, by hearing him speak thou knowst all. [Vedendo uno conosci mezzo, udendolo parlar il conosci tutto.] See also the Bible, Menander.
CALVIN: (watching TV) Why isn’t my life like this situation comedy? Why don’t I have a bunch of friends with nothing to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren’t my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don’t my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well-being when I have problems? HOBBES: Why don’t […]
FOE, n. A person instigated by his wicked nature to deny one’s merits or exhibit superior merits of his own. Not collected in later books.
