Favorite Sentences Megathread

[Brother Mythos]

"If I could stick a knife in my heart, suicide right on stage, would it be enough for your teenage lust? Would it help to ease the pain? Ease your brain?"

- Keith Richards / Mick Jagger

[chaotic neutral observer]

If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?
    --Tuco

[discordia22]

the grass ain't greener on the other side. it's greener where you water it and people tend to mistake that...

[chaotic neutral observer]

Maybe the real money down the drain was the friends we made along the way.

[minuspace]

"Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
—Inventor of the flush toilet

[Lord Batwing Candlewaxxe]

"All identity is complicated, because all identity is false; just a show we put on for ourselves and others."

[Brother Mythos]

"Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking I had something to protect."

- Bob Dylan

[Brother Mythos]

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

- Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride

[ein Gefrorener Würfel]

Compromises come about when ideas have sex.

[Brother Mythos]

"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be."

- Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)

[Brother Mythos]

"Success has many fathers, but failure is always a bastard."

- Wisdom passed down from of an Old Salt.

[Brother Mythos]

"May you live in interesting times."

- Origin is disputed.

[Brother Mythos]

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."

- Joseph Heller

[Brother Mythos]

"The more laws there are, the more crime there is."

- Lao Tzu

[Brother Mythos]

"If at first you don't succeed, lower your expectations."

- Jonathan Tropper