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Almost anything by the musical conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, whose wit and sayings were priceless, compiled in the book, "Beecham Stories".

My favorite Beecham quote-Conductor Sir Malcom Sargent was touring the Middle East, and was detained for a bit; he called up Sir Thomas and told him, "I was touring the Middle East doing concerts and was detained for a bit, but then finally released."  Beecham replied, "Released?! Did they hear you play?"LOL
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Almost anything by Terry Pratchett, some examples below:

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry.”

“If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little b*****ds they are. Style. That’s what people remember.”

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

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Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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Inspired by the one above:

Exhaustive knowledge is exhausting, or at least boring... — Shadowyzard
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Learning never exhausts the mind. 
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Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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 "As the philosopher Jagger once said,  You can always get what you want..."  Greg House 

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"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free." - Tillich
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"Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith." - Tillich
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"Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone." - Tillich
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The verse I've just finished writing. I assure you that it is completely original. I wasn't influenced by any Eurorhymes, nor was I in weed dreams while creating my unprecedentedly original and serious masterpiece.

Swift grins of made-up cheese;
Hoo, am I to, to suck grease?
Ravelled the world up, heaven sees;
A free buddy is cooking for some king.
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Child and old are always the wisest.
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Time and tide wait for no man. — Geoffrey Chaucer

For those that want details on or related to this saying: http://random-idea-english.blogspot.com/2014/02/random-thoughts-on-time-and-tide-wait.html
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Keith Richards:- "Some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to his funeral."

George Best:- "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."
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This one is probably my favourite proverb of our culture. It has a universal appeal and validity too, I think. (Think it like a narration of an event in the past tense. Its Turkish is like that.)
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Every form you see has its archetype in the divine world, beyond space; if the form perishes, what matter is that, since its heavenly model is indestructible? Every beautiful form you have seen, every meaningful word you have heard—be not sorrowful that all this must be lost; for it is not really so. The divine Source is immortal, and its spring gives water unceasingly; since neither the one nor the other can be stopped, wherefore do you lament? From the first moment when you entered this world of existence, a ladder has been set up before you.

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī
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"this ain't dodge city
and you ain't bill hickok"
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Originally posted by Shadowyzard Shadowyzard wrote:

Can we quote ourselves?

"Nothing is 'ahead of its time'; it is just, cultural evolution is steady and slow."
                                                                                                    — Shadowyzard

If we can quote ourselves I will say this: "I am not a pervert, you are sexually boring".


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Can we quote ourselves?

"Nothing is 'ahead of its time'; it is just, cultural evolution is steady and slow."
                                                                                                    — Shadowyzard


Edited by Shadowyzard - February 22 2021 at 17:16
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"Religion is the cancer of the asses"
-Anonymous
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