Rabulist Quotes & Sayings

Life is a breath. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Nobody knows the age of the Sphinx. There are those who claim that it is far older than the four thousand years attributed to it by conventional thinking. They have interesting reasons. First, it has been weathered, according to geologists, by the action of water, not wind. This fact is revealed by the condition of its sandstone body. According to John Anthony West, it must have been built long before the time of the pharaohs because it shows evidence of water erosion. Dr. Robert Schoch, a Boston University geologist, has confirmed the validity of this theory, and his dating was endorsed by three hundred other geologists at the 1992 convention of the Geological Society of America. — Whitley Strieber

(T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut. — Thomas Mann

there are truths you know deep down, and it's only when someone else says them aloud do you really hear them. Those are the ones that hurt the most. — K. Bromberg

They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had. — Fred Larson

Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions.
Les Miserables, page 674 — Victor Hugo

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others. — Richard Chamberlain

A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

In loquaciousness lay insanity. — Alan Dean Foster