Sometimes it’s nice to come say hello to your old subculture.

"A kiss that is never tasted forever and ever is wasted." (from the 1934 song "For All We Know" with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis, music by J. Fred Coots, and sung by Billie Holiday on 1958's Lady in Satin, her penultimate record)

“A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.” (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Mark Zuckerberg kills goats with laser guns.

“I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.” (Cicero)

"Once the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place." (Philip Roth)

“Ignorance is no excuse, it’s the real thing.” (Irene Peter)

"If you aren’t getting happier as you get older, you’re doing it wrong." (Naval Ravikant)

“Idiot, n: a member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.” (Ambrose Bierce)

"When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am the Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. When they are again become sober they have drawn from the sea all that they brought with them, all that they can bring with them to dry land. I have not a single friend, I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to other artists; I associate with Him without fear; I have always recognized and understood Him and have no fear for my music—it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must be freed by it from all the miseries which the others drag about with themselves." (Ludwig van Beethoven)

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.” (William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying)

“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” (Aristotle Onassis)

"I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world." (Mary Todd Lincoln)

Philophile, n. Lover of ‘philes.’

“Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.” (Eric Bently)

Swift has sailed into his rest;

Savage indignation there cannot lacerate his breast.

Imitate him if you dare, world-besotted traveler;

He served human liberty.

(Jonathan Swift’s epitaph)

"The sleep of the laboring person is sweet..." (Ecclesiastes 5:12)

"'Monkeys, gorillas, they have brains and we have a brain, but they don't have this thing, the thumb. They can't move it opposite the way we do. The inner digit on the hand of man, that might be the distinguishing physical feature between ourselves and the rest of the animals. And the glove protects that inner digit. The ladies' glove, the welder's glove, the rubber glove, the baseball glove, et cetera. This is the root of humanity, this opposable thumb. It enables us to make tools and build cities and everything else. More than the brain. Maybe some other animals have bigger brains in proportion to their bodies than we have. I don't know. But the hand itself is an intricate thing. It moves. There is no other part of a human being that is clothed that is such a complex moving structure....' And that was when Vicky popped in the door with the size-four finished gloves." (Philip Roth, American Pastoral)

“Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.” (Field Marshall Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell)

If Joe Rogan was named Josh Rogan, the inverse of his name would be Rogan Josh.