Interesting Quotes

Last one for tonight. Lots of too-often-repeated "difference between an optimist and pessimist" quotes. When someone trucks out the old bit about the pessimist being an optimist with experience, or some other tired thing, I'm usually able to trump them with this from James Branch Cabell (who I really don't know anything about):

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true.

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Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain ... only straw. Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? Scarecrow: I don't know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they? Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right.

Here's a good one:
You can go the rest of your life without eating.

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I destroyed the dastardly dairy dame! I made mad milk maid mulch!

I hate insomnia. Oh yeah. Last year I had four cases of it, and each time it lasted three months.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.

Mark Twain

I cant exactly confirm he said this but it does make sense, right?

A movie so stupid...David Lynch understood it.

- RLM

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to follow in my footsteps he must give up all right to himself, take up his cross and follow me. For the man who wants to save his life will lose it; but the man who loses his life for my sake will find it. For what good is it for a man to gain the whole world at the price of his own soul? What could a man offer to buy back his soul once he had lost it?"

How much free speech is there in Russia?

Meaning what? Wait...don't answer. I know you're itching to be political and we can't go there.

It's pretty obvious and not a lot of discussion is necessary.

You're kind of being a troll here by eluding to some political topic you'd like to talk about. A quote about the importance of online privacy has nothing to do with your comments which are out of place on this thread.

I didn't comment on the online privacy part of the quote. I don't need lectures on free speech from some guy living in Putin's Russia. I don't troll.

You really need to contain your political soapboxing, save it for that other movie board you post on, here we don't do that.

I'm Canadian. We don't soapbox. It was meant as a harmless observation.

There's an old Polish proverb that says...

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

Ceasar Augustus

This reminds me of
“Eventually, all our graves go unattended.”
― Conan O'Brien

Very happy for this man, i look up to him a lot.


https://www.npr.org/2025/01/16/nx-s1...rk-twain-prize