Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
– Frank Moore Colby

seen on reddit

I was always fond of this one, describing a construction worker practicing his art in a building designed for such a purpose producing more buildings with the same purpose. He was in the building building building building building building buildings.

You should always have one suit or fashionable dress outfit hanging in the closet for the proper heists.

-Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book

It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. I call monster every original inexhaustible beauty.

–Alfred Jarry

 

 

Death before dishonour, beer before lunch.

good ol’ boston

And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots, And the Cabots talk only to God.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
–Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)

By the time you swear you're his,
shivering and sighing
and he vows his passion is
infinite, undying --
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
                -- Dorothy Parker, "Unfortunate Coincidence"

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

Lord Chesterfield

simpsons

From the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun.

Mr. Burns