“And now, as we birds say, nests before eggs.”
The Raven in C.S. Lewis The Horse and His Boy
“What’s the point of being a hedonist if you’re not having a good time?”
Lily Tomlin’s "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" show, quoted in The New Republic Oct. 7, 1991
“the fastest execution since someone said, ‘This Guy Fawkes bloke, do we let him off, or what?’”
Edmund Blackadder in Black Adder Goes Forth, quoted in blackadderquotes.com/blackadder-series-4-episode-3-major-star-full-script
“‘It doesn’t really matter.’” “‘Here goes nothing.’” “‘It will be interesting to see what happens.’”
The three things the main character would say to himself, in that order, before paratroop-jumping during World War Two, in Sloan Wilson The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit
“After all that has been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience that a man is of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported.”
Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations
“An economist is the fellow who’ll figure out tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.”
D.P. Diffiné, “The 1993 American Incentive System Almanac”.
“As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted on www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ralph_waldo_emerson_384371
“what William James charitably called ‘earnest and helpless minds.’”
Daniel Boorstin The Genius of American Politics