Mark Forsyth Quotes

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• Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.
• Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was the sausage-maker who disposed of the body.
• Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.
• The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated.…
• If you are to use Alexander Graham Bell’s product, which is to say the blower, you should, in all courtesy, use it as he would…
• So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled…
• But Shakespeare never drank coffee. Nor did Julius Caesar, or Socrates. Alexander the Great conquered half the world without even a café latte to perk…
• Freud said that everything was secretly sexual. But etymologists know that sex is secretly food.
• Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.
• A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts,…

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