Rob Branigin > Rob Branigin's Quotes

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“with every failure, my reputation grows.”
― Brother Theodore

“the pursuit of experience is the refuge of the unimaginative.”
― Hubert Crackanthorpe

“Down in lovely muck I’ve lain,
Happy till I woke again.”
― A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad

“truth comes in with darkness.”
― Herman Melville, The Piazza Tales

“Well, then, good night to you; you have no objection, I hope, to my being drunk to-night, which I certainly will be.”
― Lord Chesterfield

“The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.”
― H.L. Mencken

“the fashion of writing poetry has become far too common, and should, if possible, be discouraged.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying

“the law of gravity's a friend of mine -
it's sensible law, i think it's fine.
if a thing goes up, it certainly must come back -
that's a BONA-FIDE, CERTIFIED, NATURAL FACT”
― The Holy Modal Rounders

“I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?”
― Charles Bukowski

“First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“Nature well drawn, and wit, must now give place
To gaudy nonsense and to dull grimace:
Nor is it strange that you should like so much
That kind of wit, for most of yours is such.”
― George Etherege, The Man of Mode

“The result will be something unutterably tedious.”
― George Gissing

“I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“those were different times.”
― Lou Reed

“Irony is wasted on the stupid”
― Oscar Wilde

“...the new world, the communo-bourgeois, sermonizing, Tartuffian, automobilistic, alcoholic, gluttonous and cancerous world has only two anxieties: ass and bank account...”
― Louis Ferdinand Celine

“Balls. We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here. And we want them now.”
― Bruce Robinson, Withnail and I: the Original Screenplay

“Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are fluttering low:
Square your shoulders, lift your pack
And leave your friends and go.
O never fear, lads, naught’s to dread,
Look not left nor right:
In all the endless road you tread
There’s nothing but the night.”
― A.E. Housman

“I would prefer not to.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

“Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of art and are passionately,almost feverishly, in earnest about it. They think it matters much more than it does.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

“Me, poor man, my library
Was dukedom large enough.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Ave Atque Vale
Hail and farewell”
― Catullus

“I cried for madder music and for stronger wine...”
― Ernest Dowson, The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson: With a memoir by Arthur Symons

“You making haste haste on decay...”
― Robinson Jeffers

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices First Series

“Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in Ohio, a region steeped in the tradition of Coxey's Army, the Anti-Saloon League, and William Howard Taft.”
― James Thurber

“Once upon a time in the dead of winter in the Dakota Territory, Theodore Roosevelt took off in a makeshift boat down the Little Missouri River in pursuit of a couple of thieves who had stolen his prized rowboat. After several days on the river, he caught up and got the draw on them with his trusty Winchester, at which point they surrendered. Then Roosevelt set off in a borrowed wagon to haul the thieves cross-country to justice. They headed across the snow-covered wastes of the Badlands to the railhead at Dickinson, and Roosevelt walked the whole way, the entire 40 miles. It was an astonishing feat, what might be called a defining moment in Roosevelt’s eventful life. But what makes it especially memorable is that during that time, he managed to read all of Anna Karenina. I often think of that when I hear people say they haven’t time to read.”
― David McCullough