What are your favorite obscure quotes?
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September 8th, 2013
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We’ve all heard the cliché inspirational quotes, but I tend to think that the best quotes are the ones that aren’t as well known. My personal favorite comes from Voltaire, and it is essentially my outlook on life: “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
What are your favorite lesser-known quotes?
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“Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.” Ian McLaren
“Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.”
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I’ll never know.”
― Groucho Marx
“The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 of the nations most prominent idiots out of the private sector where they can do real harm.”—P.J. O’Rourke
sorry if I mangled it I’m doing it from memory
“It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shore the struggles of another.” ~I forgot
Everything will be alright in the end, and if it’s not alright then it is not yet the end.
@Pachyderm in The Room The Best Hotel Marigold
__@Pachyderm_In_The_Room “One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I’ll never know.”_
Groucho Marx
DAMMIT! I guess my favorite obscure quote is not obscure.
From The Quiet American by Graham Greene
“Perhaps you ought to have been a priest.” [Thomas]
“I didn’t read the right authors for that—in those days.” [Vigot]
@janbb, yeah, I know. I watched it tonight for the third time. Love that movie.
“I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe – I believe what I believe is right.”
- George W. Bush
(this makes me giggle every time I read it, but it also reminds me of stubborn internet arguments) :)
“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”
—Joseph Joubert
“Three can keep a secret if two or dead”
Some Mobster, maybe the one who whacked the other two.
“Don’t take life to seriously, you’ll never get out of it alive”
Can’t remember
“ ‘Do you know that ‘if’ is the middle word in life?’”
Colonel Kurtz as recounted by photojournalist (Dennis Hopper) Apocalypse Now.
Well, @jaytkay, it’s a favorite quote of all us Groucho-loving pachyderms, that’s for sure. ;-)
“There’s no harmony when everyone sings the same note.”
—I can’t remember, but I don’t think Google is right in saying that it was a guy named Pete Bogush.
The answer is blowing in the wind – Bob Dylan
“A man can succeed in life if he has a few jokes in his pockets, and a lot of pockets.”
-Frank Zappa
Don’t think of death as the end, think of it as a great way to save money. Woody Allen
If one person says you’re a donkey, ignore them.
If ten people say you’re a donkey, buy a saddle. unknown
Leave it to me to put all of my eggs in one bastard. Dorothy Parker
Progress was once a fine thing, but it has gone on far too long. Sam Clemens aka Mark twain
Those with Third World skills will earn Third World wages – Lester C. Thurow
If one person says you’re a donkey, ignore them.
If ten people say you’re a donkey, buy a saddle. unknown
If one person you meet in a day is an asshole, he is an asshole.
If everyone you meet in a day is an asshole, YOU are the asshole.
—Anon
Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. Philip k Dick.
Don’t piss down my back & tell me it’s raining.
“Expectation is the root of all heartache.” – William Shakespeare
”You’ve seen these movies where they say “Make my day” or “I’m your worst nightmare”? Well, listen to this one: Rubber baby buggie bumpers!””
– Sylvester Stallone, Universal Soldier
“Gravestones cheer the living, dear. They’re no use to the dead.” Steve Noonan
“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose…” Kris Kristofferson
And, this gem, which I guess really isn’t a quote but is damn hilarious:
Bobby: I’d like an omelet, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee.
Waitress: A #2, chicken salad sand. Hold the butter, the lettuce, the mayonnaise, and a cup of coffee. Anything else?
Bobby: Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven’t broken any rules.
Waitress: You want me to hold the chicken, huh?
Bobby: I want you to hold it between your knees.
@janbb Ooopppss…forgot to cite that.
That’s where librarians come in handy.
This may not be obscure, but it’s my favorite.
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
~ Marilyn Monroe
“If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn’t it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?” – Gloria Steinem
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