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So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons, November 12, 1936 “Debate on the Address”, criticizing Stanley Baldwin’s record on rearmament against Hitler.
- Clever Jabs
- Government
The kid was deliberately and maliciously watching television at him.
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 6
- Television
The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I’d written both of them.
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
- Writing
A learning experience is one of those things that say, “You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.”
Douglas Adams1952–2001Interview in The Daily Nexus (5 April 2000), reprinted in The Salmon of Doubt
- Experience
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
Douglas Adams1952–2001Douglas Adams. The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time. New York: Random House, 2002, 135–136.
- Science
If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don’t.
Douglas Adams1952–2001Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
- Science
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
- Animals
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784In James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), entry for 21 July 1763
- Clever Jabs
- Truth & Lies
It is incomprehensible to me that any thinker can calmly call himself a modernist; he might as well call himself a Thursdayite.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936All Things Considered (1908)
- Clever Jabs
Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
He’s broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939)
- Animals
Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples.
Alexander Pope1688–1744Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
- Age
- Clever Jabs
I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.
Neil Gaimanborn 1960Neil Gaiman’s Twitter stream, Tweet ID # 1178514410, (5 February 2009)
- Internet
Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel prize.
Richard Feynman1918–1988statement (c. 1965), quoted in “An irreverent best-seller by Nobel laureate Richard Feynman gives nerds a good name”, People Magazine (22 July 1985)
- Science
You can be married and bored, or single and lonely. Ain’t no happiness nowhere.
Chris Rockborn 1965Never Scared (HBO, 2004)
- Happiness
- Marriage
I mean, they don’t grade fathers. But if your daughter’s a stripper, you fucked up.
Chris Rockborn 1965Never Scared (HBO, 2004)
- Family