Quote Soup

"People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (finally some ammo against inveterate punsters!!)

"The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind." -- Edgar Allan Poe (I can't believe you'd turn against me, Edgar)

"You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas." -- Stanley Kubrick (to make up for that previous one - this is quite possibly one of the best chess quotes I've ever heard)

"I failed to make the chess team because of my height. " --Woody Allen (to keep things in perspective)

"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. " -- G. K. Chesterton (every quote gaggle requires some GKC)

"Coincidences are spiritual puns. " -- GKC (*sigh*, which means this needs to be included...)

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead." -- GKC (the rest are going to be GKC, he's just that good...)

"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."

"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. "

"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. "

"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache."

"The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. "

"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. "

"Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. "

"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes. "

Good quotes, good music, good tea, and it is raining outside my window. :-)