"So familiar are eggs to us, however, that……" — Mark Forsyth
"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 all the time and eggs came out of the back of them."
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10 Quotes by Mark Forsyth
Mark Forsyth has 10 quotes on this site.
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Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.
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Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was the sausage-maker who disposed of the body.
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Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to…
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The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged…
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If you are to use Alexander Graham Bell’s product, which is to say the blower, you should, in all courtesy,…
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But Shakespeare never drank coffee. Nor did Julius Caesar, or Socrates. Alexander the Great conquered half the world without even…
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Freud said that everything was secretly sexual. But etymologists know that sex is secretly food.
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Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.
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A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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