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"He's got a boat, Baldrick."
- Mr. E. Blackadder
- Mr. E. Blackadder
Love these. Don't remember this quote, but I think that name points to the third one? Been rewatching Blackadder recently, in fact, for the first time in many years. Doing it out of order, so I'm done with the fourth series and halfway through the second one. The first has some brilliant lines, though, like this, which is one of my favorite insults of all time:
"... You ride a horse rather less well than another horse would..."
- Prince Edmund, Prince of Edinburgh, the Black Adder
That's right. If it was the second series, it would be Lord Blackadder, and the fourth series Captain E. Blackadder.
The lines before were talking about the vote.
BLACKADDER: Because practically nobody has the vote. Lunatics. Chimpanzees (gestures at Baldrick) Lords....
BALDRICK: That's not true, Lord Nelson's got a vote!
Followed by the above...
Hells, that's it. Now I remember the scene, and the entire episode. The third series is just fantastic, but then they all are.
Yes, a classic quote from Twain.
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Blackadder: Take Baldrick off the spit.
Baldrick: Hurrah!
Blackadder: I've got a plan so cunning you can pin a tail on it and call it a weasel.
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His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools - the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans - and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, ‘You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.’
--Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
-- Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
-- Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Gotta come back to this one. It's right up there amongst my favourite quotes about writing.
An apt quotation from Mark Twain on the occasion of the new year starting today:
"Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving Hell with them as usual."
As for myself, I am making no resolutions. I find that I have an abundance of them from recent years that have scarcely been used, and see no need to add to the collection.
"Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving Hell with them as usual."
As for myself, I am making no resolutions. I find that I have an abundance of them from recent years that have scarcely been used, and see no need to add to the collection.
“There were plotters, there was no doubt about it. Some had been ordinary people who'd had enough. Some were young people with no money who objected to the fact that the world was run by old people who were rich. Some were in it to get girls. And some had been idiots as mad as Swing, with a view of the world just as rigid and unreal, who were on the side of what they called 'the people'. Vimes had spent his life on the streets, and had met decent men and fools and people who'd steal a penny from a blind beggar and people who performed silent miracles or desperate crimes every day behind the grubby windows of little houses, but he'd never met The People.
People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up. What would run through the streets soon enough wouldn't be a revolution or a riot. It'd be people who were frightened and panicking. It was what happened when the machinery of city life faltered, the wheels stopped turning and all the little rules broke down. And when that happened, humans were worse than sheep. Sheep just ran; they didn't try to bite the sheep next to them.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up. What would run through the streets soon enough wouldn't be a revolution or a riot. It'd be people who were frightened and panicking. It was what happened when the machinery of city life faltered, the wheels stopped turning and all the little rules broke down. And when that happened, humans were worse than sheep. Sheep just ran; they didn't try to bite the sheep next to them.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
"This stillness to which all returns, this is reality, and soul and sanity have no more meaning here than a gust of snow; such transience and insignificance are exalting, terrifying, all at once, like the sudden discovery, in meditation, of one's own transparence. . . . Yet as long as I remain an 'I' who is conscious of the void and stands apart from it, there will remain a snow mist on the mirror."
Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard, p. 162 (Picador 1980).
Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard, p. 162 (Picador 1980).
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I love this. I've been involved in a discussion on my philosophy forum site -
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“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne
― Michel de Montaigne
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“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
― Montaigne
― Montaigne
I can't decide which quote of these is my favourite, but they're all from Terry Pratchett:
“If you have enough book-space, I don’t want to talk to you.”
-- Terry Pratchett
"You don’t want to make enemies in nuclear engineering."
-- Terry Pratchett
“I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.”
-- Yes, Terry Pratchett
“Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.”
-- You guessed it! Terry Pratchett
“If you have enough book-space, I don’t want to talk to you.”
-- Terry Pratchett
"You don’t want to make enemies in nuclear engineering."
-- Terry Pratchett
“I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.”
-- Yes, Terry Pratchett
“Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.”
-- You guessed it! Terry Pratchett
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