Godot

I've always liked using "it's okay if you like that sort of thing" and "with all due respect..."

Coragyps

I searched a bunch of quotation websites, and finally found this idea, if not this exact phrasing, attributed to Pogo the Possum, the cartoon creation of Waly Kelley back in the 50's and early 60's. The same 'possum who said, "We have met the enemy, and he is us!"

ieyeasu

Priceless. I got that as an inpromptu speech topic in class one day, and turned it into a combined "Why they hate us/No War in Iraq" rant.

dublczek

Great minds think alike, and if they are not the same person, so much the better.

We would credit you for saying that, but we only accept cash.

Your philosophy, madam, is like sex: when it's good, it's excellent; when it's bad, it's still pretty good.

dublczek

Philosophy is a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It makes you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you have the urge to pass it on.

Your point is so small that people get lost looking *for* it.

He had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

"That's right," he said. "We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am."

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."

Oh, come *on*. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got religion.

"In a word -- im-possible!"
"That's two words!"

- "What're quantum mechanics?"
- "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose."

"I can explain it in Dog, but you only listen in Human."

"Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?"

"Ibid you already know."

"That statement is either so deep it would take a lifetime to fully comprehend every particle of its meaning, or it is a load of absolute tosh. Which is it, I wonder?"

"Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time."

"Well, if you see anything crawl out of the sea and try to breathe, you could try telling it not to bother."

Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.

When all else fails, try being reasonable.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

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SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it is wrong. There is a lot more Science than you think.

Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.

"He's a man of few words, and he doesn't know what either of them mean," people said, but not when he was within hearing.

It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy, but they were listening in gibberish.

fatherphil

can personal attacks really be justified? if so, how do you condemn a punch in the nose if that is what a bully is best at.

i honestly think folks deserve to be dealt with respect regardless of the disagreement you might have with them.

dublczek

Peace, mellow, marshmallow, cheese...

Actually, I wanted to originally name this thread "Left-handed compliments" to tone it down, but it's too late for that now. I do not mean to imply insulting anybody is justifiable. Since there is no "Just For Fun" forum on this site, I placed it here.

fatherphil

its cool, someone called me an idiot on this board and it just hurt my feelings.

dublczek

Anyone with a chip on their shoulder isn't chopping much wood. I would ignore the comment(s) if I were you. It's difficult to be insulted if you don't dignify the insult.

Ronin

Without insults there would have been no Blackadder...and with no Blackadder, we would all become so much carbon cast about a miserable void.

And as for such an existence, I'd rather spend an evening on top of a stepladder in No Man's Land smoking endless cigarettes through a luminous balaclava.

Insult haters are weeners.