Random funny quotes
King Claudius: My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
classic line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Japan Minus Frogs
For Guy de la Valdène
Looking casually
through my English–Japanese dictionary
I can't find the word frog.
It's not there.
Does that mean that Japan has no frogs?
poem by Richard Brautigan (4 June 1976)
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Queen Gertrude: O, what a rash and bloody deed is this!
Hamlet: A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king, and marry with his brother.
classic lines from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 4 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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It's nice to be important, but it's important to always be nice.
quote by Alyssa Milano
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The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live.
classic quote by Martin Luther King
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Money doesn't bring happiness, but certainly it's not an obstacle to reach it.
quote by Josep Pla, translated by Dan CostinaÅŸ
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein in The Geographical History of America (1936)
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A thousand things advance, nine hundred and ninety-eight fall back, this is progress.
Henri-Frederic Amiel in Journal Intime (1882), translated by Mary Augusta Ward
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Peachum [To the audience]: Something new - that's what we must have. My business is too difficult. You see, my business is trying to arouse human pity. There are few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work. Human beings have the horrid capacity of being able to make themselves heartless at will. So it happens, for instance, that a man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time that he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll be only a threepenny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll hand him over cold-bloodedly to the police. It's the same with these spiritual weapons.
classic line from The Threepenny Opera, Act I, Scene 1 by Bertolt Brecht (1928)
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Since Feeling is First
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
—the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
poem by E.E. Cummings
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