Random Relevant Quotes.

[Karl12]

• "I do not know how to find out anything new without being offensive".

Charles Fort

[UltraBudgie]

Where has the Charles Fort quote gone?

Perhaps the Mad Fishmonger stole it.

The strongest point for the segregationists is in their own mental processes, which illustrate that segregations, whether by wind action, or not, do occur. If they have periwinkles and crabs to explain, and, say, that with a story of a fishmonger, or of a whirlwind, they can explain the periwinkles, though so they cannot explain the crabs, a separation of data occurs in their mentalities. They forget the crabs and tell of the periwinkles. “

I, however, choose to believe the Fishmonger did exist. I think he decided to liven up the world, and perpetuate more mystery.

https://baronvonhoopla.wordpress.com/cat...ishmonger/

[Karl12]

Good one and got to love those periwinkles (and crabs).

This is a bit of a serious one but thought CS Lewis hit the nail on the head.

• "The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.”

– C.S. Lewis (Preface to The Screwtape Letters).