Ah, third time’s a charm. I am officially consecrating this as a recurring feature on the blog now. Please feel free to send me suggestions in the future. I will credit finders of quotes as well as the original source.
happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none
Herman Melville
Like thesis advisors and prom dates. Don’t wait too long to ask.
Jess Caplin
Short sellers: “They delve into the deepest state and business secrets and do not hesitate to attack even the government and excite the masses in order to profit more… Widows and orphans are seriously hurt by speculators a la baisse.”
Muys van Holys
But this is a PG-13 movie, and therefore not inclined to dwell on icky matters of reproduction when there is wholesome bloodshed to pursue.
A. O. Scott on X-men Origins: Wolverine
Only one of these was actually from another person’s status. In other words, these are quotes I would put on my own Gchat status message. Basically, I found these quotes interesting.
When we like people, for some sad reason, we can convince ourselves that it is reciprocal, no matter how obvious the truth is to everyone else.
“Social Q’s,” by Philip Galanes
Surely puns silence conversation before they animate it. Some stricken with pun-lust sink so far into their infirmity that their minds become trained to lie in wait for words on which to work their wickedness.
“Puns for the Ages,” by Joseph Tartakovsky
strangely enough, or perhaps not strangely at all, people were thoroughly satisfied, which would lead one to believe that what readers really craved was not so much the contents of books, magazines, and papers as the assurance that they were not missing anything.
“IRTNOG,” by E. B. White
it doesn’t seem unreasonable to think that if you want to live like a Whole-Foods-shopping San Franciscan Democrat, you need somebody, somewhere, to procreate like a megachurch-attending Republican.
“Who’s afraid of low birthrates?” by Ross Douthat