Funnymaine Inciting Quotes & Sayings

Spare the rod and spoil the child. — Samuel Butler

Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

[P]erhaps conscious experience is an irreducible entity, like space, or time, or mass. No member of that triad can be explained, much less understood, as a manifestation of either of the other two. Perhaps conscious experience, too, is such a fundamental. — Jeffrey M. Schwartz

This is my first visit." "It's — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The whole function of education is to create Nazis. — Bernhard Rust

It is not a religion. It is a relationship. — Unknown Author 516

She was not unacquainted with these sudden shocking illuminations, but they were among those experiences which are ever-new - like love, orgasms, or barking your shin. You never really got used to them.

This one wasn't the light that cleaves the darkness, the one bright shining truth that slashes through the murk and banishes all doubt, the divine radiance that heals all wounds before plodding Father Time gets his boots on. She had no faith in those counterfeit notions, though it wasn't the thing itself that was false. It was the yearning for it - the yearning that must cleave to something (anything) because it was bright, not because it was true; that confused letting go with running away; that believed healing was the mere dead absence of pain. — Owen R. O'Neill

A quick run past the rabbits' execution shed, a turn around the kittens' quicklime pit, a moment's hesitation beyond the monkeys' gas-chamber
and they are gone: ay, not so long ago these canines fled away into the storm. It would be pleasant to report that that night Dr. Boycott dreamt of many a woe, and all his whitecoat-men with shade and form of witch and demon and large coffin-worm were long be-nightmared. One might even have hoped to add that Tyson the old died palsy-twitched, with meagre face deform. But in fact
as will be seen
none of these things happened. Slowly the rain ceased, the grey rack blowing away and over Windermere as first light came creeping into the sky and the remaining inmates of Lawson Park woke to another day in the care and service of humanity. — Richard Adams

The "virtue" of Keynes's teaching is that it praised thriftlessness, reckless spending, and unbalanced budgets and was therefore extremely palatable to the politicians in power. — Henry Hazlitt

Why it would be a pleasure," I replied rather foolishly. "Do you mean for you?" "Well, yes - call — Henry James

I heard the fear in the first music I ever knew, the music that pumped from boom boxes full of grand boast and bluster. The boys...loved this music because it told them, against all evidence and odds, that they were masters of their own lives, their own streets, and their own bodies. I saw it in the girls, in their loud laughter, in their gilded bamboo earrings that announced their names thrice over. And I saw it in their brutal language and hard gaze, how they would cut you with their eyes and destroy you with their words for the sin of playing too much. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I believe love conquers hate, faith overcomes despair, and that life is stronger than death." Wickedly They Come — Cathrina Constantine

I needed somebody without any preconceived ideas. But I also needed somebody with a mind of her own." The contradictory qualities we seek in that elusive perfect lover. Strength and vulnerability, in equal measures. — Jeffery Deaver

Thought myself clear of drama. Done my part. Liberated Jack to do whatever with whomever.

(delusional girl)

Contrairio.

(not sure what language contrairio, sorry)

Dangerous to underestimate enemies. — Harriet Showman