QUOTATIONS
(Historical and Literary)
Section

I'm a bear with little brain. (from Milne's "Winnie the Pooh")

• Pah! I'm a panda perplexed by a paucity of perspicacity, perhaps the product of a puny pate. --Bill Flis
• Groan...I'm a grizzly granted a grain of grey matter. --Rex Stocklin

The shot heard round the world.

• Bang beheld between Bolivia, Botswana, Barbados, Brazil, Belarus, Baghdad, Bucharest, Brussels, Bombay, and Beijing. --Pangea and Anirion
• The artillery audible antipodally. --William Flis
• The gun's gasp got gleaned globally. --Rex Stocklin
• The fired 44 felt far afield. --Stanley Anderson
• The ricocheting rifle round that reverberated in remote regions. --Stanley Anderson
• The elephant gun echo that encircled the entire earth. --Stanley Anderson
• The discharge distinctly discerned from a distance. --Stanley Anderson

When ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise. --Gray

• Eden exists in emptiness, ergo, erroneous to be enlightened. --Pangea
• As agnosis assuages, all alacrity approaches asininity --Rex Stocklin
• Since stupidity's sublime, sagacity's silly. --William Flis
• Forswear foresight as farce, for foolishness is felicitous. --William Flis

Chance favors the prepared mind. --Louis Pasteur

• Luck is less likely to land in the lap of the lad or lass with little learning. --Bill Flis
• Probability is partial to the practiced pate. --Bill Flis
• Fortuity favors the forearmed faculties. --Bill Flis
• Destiny deigns to deliver for the developed delver. --Bill Flis

To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women. --Conan the Barbarian, in response to "What is happiness?"

• To subdue some strangers, to see them swept aside, and to sense the sound of the sobbing of their spouses and sweethearts. --Bill Flis
• To overthrow one's opponents, to observe their ongoing oppression, and to overhear the outcries of their other halves. --Bill Flis
• To decimate your disputants, to discern them driven down, and to descry the depression of their dames. --Bill Flis

God's in his heaven, and all's right with the world.

• Eternal entity ensconced in ethereal edifice, each and every earthly element exists entirely. --Anirion and Pangea

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. --Emerson

• "Excuse me, [expletive, an expression for excreta, expurgated]-exuder!" I excitedly exclaim, expectorating explosively in extreme exasperation, "I execrate your example exhibits of excerpts extracted from exalted expositions. Expound excursively on the expansive extent of your exclusive expertise, excepting extravagant exaggerations and extenuating explanations." --Bill Flis

To err is human, to forgive divine. --Pope

• Making mistakes may be the metier of most mortals, mercy and magnanimity are more like the Messiah. --Bill Flis
• Ambling astray is the avocation of all anthropods, absolution is akin to the Almighty/Allah/Atman. --Bill Flis
• Everyman errs, the Eternal exonerates. --Bill Flis
• The fullness of faults are found among us frail folks, forgiveness follows the Father. --Bill Flis

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

• Moseying was minused among the many machinations of the morn --Rex Stocklin
• It was silly to suggest a stroll during that span of sunshine. --Stanley Anderson
• Frankly, Frolicking on the fairway was not feasible for the afternoon. --Stanley Anderson

The Lord of the Rings

• Liege ala locus locations --Rex Stocklin
• Guvnah goes gyroscopic --Rex Stocklin
• Manipulator of the manual marraige markers. --Stanley Anderson
• Dominator of the digit decorations. --Angelee Anderson
• Kingpin of the karated knuckle knickknacks. --Stanley Anderson
• Signature signer circular settings' supervisor. --Stanley Anderson

The game's afoot!

• Play is plied --Rex Stocklin
• The contest's commencing! --Stanley Anderson
• The mystery is making me merge into the muddle! --Stanley Anderson
• The puzzle has produced promising possibilities! --Stanley Anderson

All Creatures Great and Small

• Forest full of fauna, fatted and finite --Rex Stocklin
• Whole happenstances of humanity to herpetes, Herculean and half-pinted --Rex Stocklin
• The totality of taxonomy, tiny to tall. --William Flis
• The entire entourage of enlivened entities, elephantine and elfin. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• The mass of mammals major and minor. --Angelee Anderson
• A complete collection of carnivours, considerable and compact. --Stanley Anderson
• The bulk of beasts, big and brief. --Stanley Anderson

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. --Pascal

• I've uncovered ultimately untoward underworldly unction is utterly ushered usually by unease --Rex Stocklin
• Verily, I've unveiled that the variety of vice revolves about a void in volition to vegitate non-verbally and vigilant on the veranda. --Stanley Anderson
• I ferreted out the fact that the full fare of fiendishness flows from a fellow's failure to flop unflittingly in the foyer. --Stanley Anderson

Frailty, thy name is woman. (from Hamlet)

• Delicate? Denotes damsels. --J. L. Mandelson
• Disfunction, disorder deigned a distaff --Rex Stocklin
• Trouble tis a tomato --Rex Stocklin
• Genteel generally is the gentle gender. --Michael Turniansky
• Booboos beset buxom babes. --Michael Turniansky
• Yiddish yodel of yesteryear: Yieldingness, ye're yclept yenta. --William Flis
• Anemia, thine appellation is anti-male. --Stanley Anderson
• Half-heartedness, thy handle is 'her'. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Fallibility, thy frame is female. --Angelee Anderson
• Instability, thine identity is Ingenue. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Misery, thy moniker is Ms. --Angelee Anderson
• Temptation, thy title is trollop. --Angelee and Stanley Anderson
• Imbalance, thy badge is broad. --Stanley Anderson
• Defect, thy designation is damsel. --Stanley Anderson
• Susceptibility, thy status is skirt. --Stanley Anderson
• Ephemera, thy epithet is effeminate. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson

Call me Ishmael (any Biblical name should do, here)

• Mouth me: Moby-minded mister. --Rex Stocklin
• Meanest me? Mention Moses. --J. L. Mandelson
• Affirm my appellation to be Ahab. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Bid me be known as Beelzebub. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Baptize me as Benjamin. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Christen me Caleb. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Dub me Daniel. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Elect to enunciate Elijah. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Frame me familiarly as Festus. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• My given is Gideon. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Hail me as Hezekiah. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Invoke me as Isaac. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• I'm known as Kora. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Methinks my moniker is Methusaleh. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Nickname me Noah. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Pronounce me Pontius. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Refer to me as Reuben. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Say I am Seth. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Toast me as Titus. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• I exist as Xerxes. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson

Your's is not to reason why, your's is but to do or die

• Personal possessiveness precludes pondering, properly put, per person's predestination is to ply or perish --Rex Stocklin

The Last of the Mohicans

• A human holding the whole heritage of Huron-haters hailing from the Hudson. --Stanley Anderson

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. (from Through the Looking Glass)

• Hey, I have handily hearkened to half-dozen hare-brained hunches howbeit having hunger heretofore.. --Michael Turniansky
• Rubbish! I recurringly realize roughly a rack of ridiculous rationalizations, requiring a repast reward. --Michael Turniansky
• Oh, occasionally I've offered opinions of outrageous objects often before omlette and orient orb. --Stanley Anderson

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. (paraphrased from William Congreve)

• An authoritative Austrian analyst advises: the amaranthine anguish of the abyss is almost anesthetic after the anal-expulsive acting-out of the angst of the anandrous anathema. --William Flis
• Abaddon's agonies aren't anything, assessed against the animated anger of the Annie abandoned. --William Flis
• Beelzebub's bailiwick's barely burning beside the blazing bessemer blasts of the betty belittled. --William Flis
• A foresaken female fumes fiercer than the 'fernal flames. --William Flis
• A deserted dame deflagrates more disastrously than the devil's dominion. --William Flis
• Gehenna's got no grudge like a gal given the gate. --William Flis
• Limbo lacks any lambasting like the lady laughed at. --William Flis
• Vedantic version: Verily, for violence and vehemence, even Vishnu's vaunted vengeance vies vainly vis-a-vis the vitriolic venom of the virago vituperated. --William Flis
• Perdition's passion pales upon juxtaposition with a pissed, pretty person who pines for her props. --Rex Stocklin

Quoth the raven "nevermore" as if his soul in that one word did outpour (from Poe's "The Raven")

• The magpie muttered "momentless", might he've meant in the monologism: "mercy on me". --Rex Stocklin

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

• It was quite a quandary: equal quantities of quality and quagmire. --Stanley Anderson
• An epoch that enjoyed excellence, yet evil existed. --Rex Stocklin
• Certainly was a swell season, all the same, though, it seemingly sucked. --Rex Stocklin
• Prosperity perservered, poverty persisted. --Stanley Anderson

I have not yet begun to fight.

• Tis not time to tussle. --Rex Stocklin
• I have scarcely started to scuffle. --Stanley Anderson

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

• In the depths of a diatomaceous divit delved a diminutive demi-dude. --Rex Stocklin
• Esconced in an ecosystem's entryway was the earnest essence of edited ego-enterprise. --Rex Stocklin
• Through the thicketed threshold thrived a thumb-sized thief. --Rex Stocklin
• In a birm's boggy burrowed bore was borne Bilbo Baggins bearing bonhomme. --Rex Stocklin
• 'Neath the nettled nook nestled a nervous nanoid of a gnome. --Rex Stocklin
• Cooped in the cusp of a cavity cowers a cute condensed critter. --Rex Stocklin
• Helming a heathly hovel of a hole was a heightless half-pint inhabitant he of humble heistmeisterhood. --Rex Stocklin
• Tucked in a terrestrial tunnel ticks a Tatoo-esque tiny titan. --Rex Stocklin
• In an aperature in the alluvium abode an abbreviated animal. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• In a burrow below the bushes bided a brownie. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• In a concavity on the common crouched a child-sized creature. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Down a delving in the dirt dwelt a dwarf. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• In an excavation in the earth there existed and elf-like entity. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• In a furrow in a field was found a fairie. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• In a gash in the ground there grovelled a gremlin. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• In a hollow in the humus there hid a halfling. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• An indentation in the ice was inhabited by an itty-bitty imp. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• In a lowering in the land there lived a leprechaun. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• In a pit in the park there perched a pipsqueak. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• In a rut in the road resided a runt. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Inside a sinking in the sod there settled a sprite. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson

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