Bon Mots, or clever phrases

[Butterfly]

Totally off topic, but needed to share this and would really enjoy seeing any additional new neat phrases you might  find while reading.

Apropos to our earlier discussion in the shout box about chainsaws -- while reading today I found a particularly clever phrase in an editorial by Howard V. Hendrix in Analog magazine.

"...when it comes to clearing away the underbrush of ad hoc hypotheses we need to strop up not Occam's Razor but fire up Occam's Chainsaw."

[rayb]

Hardly new, but - Hamm in Samuel Beckett's Endgame:
You cried for night.
It falls.
Now, cry in darkness.

[rayb]

And I might have quoted it before in another thread but:
Yo nací un día que Dios estuvo enfermo grave. (I was born one day when God was feeling very unwell.)


Ooooooops! Forgot to credit the man - Cesar Vallejo.

[crazyquilter]

Happiness can be found ,even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

From Harry Potter

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A man's place is in the wrong. - Jen Cayley (my wife!)