Quotable quotes

[belamyi]

^ You mean the quoted or the quoting, or both?

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Maybe some people have a stupidly stern understanding of it

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

^ You mean the quoted or the quoting, or both?

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Maybe some people have a stupidly stern understanding of it

If you quote something wise, you're not normally as wise as the quote.

If you quote something stupid, you're not normally as stupid as the quote.

 

[belamyi]

If you quote something wise, you're not normally as wise as the quote.

If you quote something stupid, you're not normally as stupid as the quote.

If you consider something stupid, you are way off being cleverer than what you consider stupid.

If you consider something wise, you are far from being wise yourself.

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[Harke the Boeotarch]

If you consider something stupid, you are way off being cleverer than what you consider stupid.

Not at all. I -for instance- consider the economy stupid, but I'm awful at making money.

 

[teddy]

Impossible is a word I never say

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Impossible is a word I never say

Americans can be such idiots.

 

[belamyi]

Not at all. I -for instance- consider the economy stupid, but I'm awful at making money.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/awful

 

[belamyi]

Because you are only mediocrely stupid.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Because you are only mediocrely stupid.

Don't know if I should be insulted, relieved or both...

 

[belamyi]

^ If you are not stupid enough for this stupid economy, you draw your own stupid conclusions.

 

[Araucaria]

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." --Groucho Marx

 

[Araucaria]

Americans can be such idiots.

That reminds me of the quote, typically attributed to H. L. Mencken, "No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public." But apparently he never said that. The closest quote by him seems to be “No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”

 

[belamyi]

Primum philosophari deinde vivere, nihil prius philosophari: ex philosophari vivere.

 

[belamyi]

与化去而不见，名声著而日延。

 

[belamyi]

"Denn eben wo Begriffe fehlen, da stellt ein Wort zur rechten Zeit sich ein." - Goethe

Which means "when you have run out of blood, you still have your heart left...".

 

[belamyi]

Democracy is the art of having people, who hate each other, coexist in such a way as to dupe them all into the official belief that they are all perfectly equal, while maintaining the secret fantasy that each one of them actually rules over the rest. - Mr B

 

[belamyi]

The use of curse words is a privilege for the intelligent, a burden for the coarse and a curse for the idiots.- H

 

[belamyi]

'People may usually be wise enough not to throw themselves out the window whenever anyone they trust would ask them to do so, but they do not give it the same sort of second thought whenever throwing anybody else is involved.' _ Bee

 

[belamyi]

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Most quoted during the second half of the decade and beyond...

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

"Denn eben wo Begriffe fehlen, da stellt ein Wort zur rechten Zeit sich ein." - Goethe

Which means "when you have run out of blood, you still have your heart left...".

Very very loosely translated...