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Jeff Buckley

 (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), also known as "Scotty Moorhead", was an American singer-songwriter.

From Interviews

 * said I was stealing from the black man, and I was failing at it whereas was succeeding. So fuck 'em.
 * New Jersey Beat Magazine, 1993

 * Everything I ever projected to be, it was—even the stinky, ratty, vomity part of it.  Everybody has to do the subway.  Everybody has to smell the same smells.  And people get mad all the time.  When people don’t like something, like ‘Get out of my way you blah, blah, blah.’  But [in L.A.] it’s like, ‘How ya doing?  Let’s do lunch!  I love you!’
 * – Man In The Moon (January 4, 1994)

RR: Whenever I've seen you play here in New York at or Fez, people sit there mesmerized.

JB: People weren't into it at first. I had to fight to be heard. Then I had to stop fighting. Whole months would go by where people would just be talking. I even got a headache from a performance one time.

RR: What changed?

JB: I learned how to use everything in the room as the music. A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it. So if people are talking, I let them talk. That just means they're part of the music. I even had to learn the noise the dishwasher makes at this little cafe; I had to play in B-flat, or it wouldn't sound right.

RR: I want to talk about another Michael. I read a review that compared your recent EP,, with Michael Bolton's new record.

JB: Oh, my God! Oh, shit, that's really disgusting! RR: It gets worse. They said he has succeeded in taking from the tradition of African American soul and blues singers in a way that you have miserably failed.

JB: Really? But the thing is, I'm not taking from that tradition. I don't want to be black. Michael Bolton desperately wants to be black, black, black. He also sucks.
 * , February 1994

AV: You grew up in, what was that like?

JB: From womb to tomb, it's thug country. I'm amazed that I had any friends at all. People grow up repressed from the spirit, day by day by day. Cable TV, it's fucked. It's misogyny, it's birth, death, work, it's misery, it's power. It's fuckin' hicks. And that's what I grew up with. I was rootless trailer trash. Now I prefer the to any place on the planet. I can be who I am here. I couldn't do it anyplace I lived as a child. I never fit in, even though my roots are there.
 * , 1994

 * Why do they always show up there bleeding and dying on the cross? We don't remember  lying there with a bullet hole in his head. I'm against the arbitrary organization of '' as a concept. We should all experience it all individually and purely. I don't agree with the separation of God and the body, I don't believe that we aren't a part of 'it', I don't agree that it's a man. In most religions there's no place for women. There aren't any women in the  and I need that. I love women, I came from a woman.
 * B-Side Magazine, October/November 1994

YCDW: What are some of your favorite black and white movies?

JB: Lets see, ', ', films, American Milan, and —which I absolutely adore.

YCDW: What kind of music are you listening to now when you get a chance?

JB: Well, today I did 's 'Live In Paris' and then I did '' by the. It really depends on what I have with me. I carry with me. Anything with soul for the moment to it. We stopped at a truck stop and got Truck Stop Comedy and 's 'Unleashed in the East.'

YCDW: Do you have any favorite perfumes or scents?

JB: I like essential oils a lot. Tunisian and  are my current favorites.
 * You Could Do Worse Zine, #3

 * and and, all dark, all romantic. When I say "romantic," I mean a sensibility that sees everything, and has to express everything, and still doesn't know what the fuck it is, it hurts that bad. It just madly tries to speak whatever it feels, and that can mean vast things. That sort of mentality can turn a sun-kissed orange into a flaming meteorite, and make it sound like that in a song.
 * Double Take (February 29, 1996)

"This is a song about, it's and angry song. Life is too short and too complicated for people behind desks and people behind masks to be ruining other peoples lives, initiating force against other peoples lives on the basis of their income, their color, their class, their religious beliefs, their whatever. Aaahh"
 * Before Life Eternal - Live at Sin-e

From

 * Fuck off! Just fuck off!
 * (in response to an audience member yelling "Tim Buckley." Jeff followed "fuck off" by adding, "the 60's are bullshit, the 70's almost big big bullshit, 80's... I don't even need to tell you, except for The Smiths maybe. Get out of it! Just get out of it! Shit's happening now, it's all about now, now now now. Bigger, faster, sweatier, skinnier, whiter, blacker, Gracer".  Then Jeff goes into playing his song 'Grace'. )

From EPK (Electronic Press Kit)

 * That’s what I wanted to do. You know, 2 hours.  It’s like long-distance running or playing in a football game when you totally run out of steam and the moves you make after you run out of steam, because you’re totally unselfconscious, you’re not even thinking about the mechanics anymore.  The moves you make then are incredible.

 * The only goal is in the process. The process is the thing…with little flashes of light here and there.  Those are the gigs, those are the live shows.  But it’s the life in between—that’s all I got.

 * And what do I want people to get from the music? Whatever they want.  Whatever you like.  Somebody asked me what I wanted to do.  I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me.  And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.

 * Interviewer: "So Jeff, what are your main musical influences?"   Jeff (after a long pause):  "Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin.  Totally."

About Jeff Buckley

 * Technically, he was the best singer that appeared, I'm not being too liberal about this if I say, in two decades. I started to play Grace constantly, and the more I listened to the album, the more I heard – the more I appreciated of Jeff, and Jeff's talents, and Jeff's total ability, to which he was just a wizard; and it was close to being my favorite album of the decade.  We (Jimmy Page and Robert Plant) actually made a point of going to hear him play and sing, and it was absolutely scary.  One of the things is a little frightening was that I was convinced that he probably did things in tunings, and he didn't.  He was doing things in standard tuning.  I thought, oh gee, he really is clever, isn't he?  Jeff Buckley was one of the greatest losses of all.
 * – Guitarist from //solo from the BBC documentary, Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You

 * The album that I've been listening to for the last 18 months is Grace by Jeff Buckley. He is a great, great singer.  He has such an emotional range, doing songs by Benjamin Britten and Leonard Cohen, as well as his own; such technique and command.  When the Page/Plant tour hit Australia, we saw them and we were knocked out.  It was very moving.  Someone heckled him from the audience, "stop playing that heavy stuff!," but he made the perfect reply: "Music should be like making love ― sometimes you want it soft and tender, other times you want it hard and aggressive."  I felt he paid us a great compliment with his music in that style.
 * – Guitarist from Led Zeppelin/The Yardbirds/solo from Mojo Magazine, January 1997

 * He quite clearly had his feet on the ground and his head and his imagination was flying way, way out there, beyond, beyond.
 * – Guitarist from Led Zeppelin/The Yardbirds/solo from the BBC documentary, Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You

 * Yeah, I was really affected by Jeff Buckley when I heard him perform; and I heard one of his last concerts in Australia ― penultimate concert ― and it was just absolutely staggering. He was absolutely, I mean, you know, he just touched every emotion in you, you know.  He was really superb, and in a total class of his own, as you know, as you've heard so many singers, and you go, 'well, they got that from Jeff Buckley.'  He was so, you know, he's iconic, and really just in a total class of his own, as I say, and, so I was really deeply affected by his music, and I thought he was a master.  It was tragic to hear that he died, but there was a weird irony when somebody said, that I've heard that, that he was singing Whole Lotta Love.  If you say it was his road manager, because I didn't know whether it was true, or there was a...yeah, he had actually sort of said, that was in Australia, that it would be really good if we had done something together.  Can you imagine how I would have loved to have done that with him, but, you know, he started doing a second album, and then he called a halt, and then he started up again...yeah, yeah, it's a tragic loss.  My God, was he good.
 * – Guitarist from Led Zeppelin/The Yardbirds/solo from RTL2 - Pop-Rock Station by Zégut

 * On this day in 1996, I saw Jeff Buckley perform in Melbourne. Jeff Buckley was something of an ethereal spirit: a musical magician whose album 'Grace' showcased a unique talent.  His name was on the lips of all musos from the release of that album and for the next two years.  I had heard him sing a couple of songs at a distance on the Other Stage at Glastonbury, where Page and Plant were headlining: you could feel him, it was extraordinary.  I had listened intently to 'Grace' whilst I was on tour and made a point to see him at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne on this day in 1996.
 * – Guitarist from Led Zeppelin/The Yardbirds/solo from his official Instagram account

 * Asked in a 2003 interview what he was listening to lately, Jimmy Page replied, "Nothing that's had the impact in me that Jeff Buckley did," and coincidentally, in the same issue of Mojo magazine, Elton John was asked about his favorite all-time record, and he cited either Nina Simone at Town Hall or Jeff Buckley's Grace: "Like an album made by someone from a another planet." (Also interesting that Nina Simone was one of Buckley's many influences, which ranged from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan to the MC5).
 * – Guitarist from Led Zeppelin/The Yardbirds/solo
 * from page 185 of Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times By Neil Peart

 * We were talking earlier about lyrics and beautiful lyrics. That particular period that we've been dwelling upon this evening, partly, and in fact definitely, was a time for prolific writing.  Recently, not too long ago, we lost one of the better, most beautiful, caucasian singers, Jeff Buckley, sadly, way, way out to lose such a talent and such a heart.
 * – Singer from Led Zeppelin/The Honeydrippers/Page & Plant/Strange Sensation, Band of Joy/solo from VH1 Storytellers, June 2002

 * You mentioned two spectacular vocalists there (Jeff Buckley and Freddie Mercury) I mean, both of whom had much better chops than me. I mean real great, great singers.  Jeff Buckley's voice.  I was playing with Jimmy in the mid 90s when we were working with an Egyptian ensemble, and we played a festival in Switzerland, and Jeff Buckley was playing, and we went to see him, and it was mind altering, his voice.  Spectacular singing, and so much conviction.
 * – Singer from //Page & Plant/Strange Sensation, Band of Joy/solo from Q TV, October 2010

 * (Cameron Crowe asked about his inclusion of Led Zeppelin songs in his film, Almost Famous): How’d you secure the rights to the music?

They took us across the street to a wine bar. They said, “Well, ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ we gotta say no to, ’cause it’s just too much. We just don’t do anything with ‘Stairway to Heaven.'” We’re like, “Whomp, whomp, whomp.” And Page goes, “But I would like to give you an extra song that’s more of an acoustic busking vibe. We’ll give that to you free.” He replaced “Stairway to Heaven” with “Bron-Yr-Aur.”

He gave that to us for free, just to have that texture in the movie, which was amazing. And we ran through the streets afterward. The rest of that meeting was spent talking about how much we all loved Jeff Buckley. Officially the coolest night ever, or the un-coolest night ever. I don’t know. That was a huge kind of buoy to swim to, because without Led Zeppelin, it’s just not the same movie.
 * - film director, producer, screenwriter, journalist, author, and actor - Cameron Crowe on the 20th Anniversary of ‘Almost Famous’: ‘It’s Never Been as Popular as It Is Now’ | Rolling Stone article by Angie Martoccio, August 20, 2020.

 * On the subject of dedication to a craft, in addition talent, it was, and especially the singing, were so original, so powerful, and so accomplished, that the tragedy of his loss, after making only the one record (though a flood of demos and live recordings was released in his wake), seemed ever more poignant. It was clear to me that Jeff Buckley had been one of the few Great Ones, a one-in-a-billion talent, a true voice of his generation, and at thirty, he had hardly begun.  Whatever is left behind in the passing of a rare talent, so much is always lost.
 * – Drummer from from the book, Traveling Music: Play Back the Soundtrack to My Life and Times.

 * I was just doing whatever I could, you know. And then I had a delivery job at a place, and then the guy that I was doing that with, he was a wicked bass player, and he was teaching at MI (Musicians Institute), and one of his students was Jeff Buckley, or something (Interviewer: "Really?!")...so, then me and him, and Jeff Buckley, we had a country band together (Interviewer: "You did?!").  Jeff was rad, man.  He was a great brother, man.  I hung out with him a lot, and then...dude, I'll never forget, like, when we were in that band, though, man, he came in with this demo, it's like, that he did in his apartment.  It was four songs, and three of them were on that Grace record (Interview: "On Grace, yeah."), and he programmed all the drums on a SR 16 Alesis, but he didn't program, he did it with his fingers (Interview: "Like, he played it in real time.")...yeah, dude, I could put that on for you, it will blow, no one has (Interview: "Yeah, let's listen to it, later.")...no one has this.  And, dude, I just went, kid, you're going to be a star (both laugh).  He would, and also, I would like to say, that guy had like a photographical music memory (Interviewer: "He did?").  After those guys would leave, after rehearsal, man, we would play, like, Zeppelin shit ― In My Time Of Dying, and stuff ― he played every lead, note for note, absolutely perfectly, man (Interviewer: "Wow!").  He was the real deal, man.  I've never played with another guitar player that (did that?).  (Interviewer: "Yeah, people talk about his vocal powers, but his guitar stylings were amazing!").  Dude, right!  When he came out with that Grace record, I remember he came, 'man, this is my record' and I was just like...at first I was just like, what's all this singing shit, dude (Interviewer laughs); where's the guitar playing?  I was like bummed...that's how bad of an A&R guy I would have been (both laugh).  Pretty fucking funny.  (Interview: "You should make a fusion record, bro.")  Yeah, right, yeah, come on, dude.  God, I was (unintelligible), because I didn't recognize the genius of his voice, but the songwriting I did recognize ― I just went, wow, man ― he was an exceptional talent.  I feel very lucky to be able to say, dude, I played with him for a couple of years (Interview: "That's incredible!" [Danny laughs]).
 * – Drummer for, Pigmy Love Circus, Volto!, Zaum, Green Jello, , Legend of the Seagullmen from The Trap Set podcast with Joe Wong, Ep. 221

 * Jeff was somebody who would have been one of those people that influenced other singers. He was an amazing singer.  I had an idea of what his music meant to people, because he did this amazing thing in such a short period of time.  He's going to be the most important artist to so many people throughout their lives.  We were really good friends, and as an individual he was different from any other friend I've had.  I was looking forward to a long friendship with him.  As an artist he was one of the few people, that really inspired me.  I was counting on him, to be one of the persons, who would pressure me to move my limits, in many years to come.  It's very important to have this kind of challenge, someone who inspires you to grow with the challenge.  That push, to get you to do new things, is very healthy, and Jeff was one of those people, who inspired you to expand your way of thinking, about yourself and music.
 * – Singer/Guitarist from ///solo from Jeff Buckley Newsletter, November 5, 1999 (http://www.jeffbuckley.com/newsletter/v1_n7/english/07.html)

 * He could have literally been doing anything, musically, that he wanted to do. And I would think of it like I would think of it like Jimi Hendrix, where there's no real way to predict it, because he could have done anything.  He had a way of playing the most beautiful songs you've ever heard and singing them, and still with the way that he sang, create a bit of an uncomfortable edge to it if he felt like it.  And he did that mostly with his voice.
 * – Singer/Guitarist from Soundgarden/Audioslave/Temple of the Dog/solo from NBC Edgewise Tribute on MSNBC from 1997.

 * Kurt was fairly quiet and introverted most of the time. Jeff was the opposite.  He was very much full of life and had a lot to say.  He was somebody in love with experiencing everything.  Within a very short time, he had all these famous old rock stars coming to his shows, which put a lot of pressure on him.  People talked about his concerts the way they used to talk about Hendrix.  They'd sit there, wide-eyed, telling you stories about him.  He definitely had an aura.  It's impossible to say what it is exactly a guy like that has, that is so attractive to other people.  But he had more of it than anyone I had ever met.
 * – Singer/Guitarist from Soundgarden/Audioslave/Temple of the Dog/solo

 * Soundgarden frontman, Chris Cornell, who was a friend of Buckley’s, says he possessed a star quality.

"What made him that person? I have no idea.  But he was that person," he recalls.

"He was this amazing, unique kind of spirit that everyone was kind of drawn to. He had that quality that superstars have.  But he unfortunately didn't live long enough for that to be exposed to everyone."
 * – Singer/Guitarist from Soundgarden/Audioslave/Temple of the Dog/solo

 * His "Hallelujah" is contender for greatest recording ever.
 * - Guitarist from /

 * Man, I had this guy with me once, and we were sittin' down, and talkin', and jammin'...he played his version of Indifference, for me...man, I tell ya...I’ll never forget the way He did it...I was just fuckin’ speechless...one of the most memorable moments of my life...I just wish I had seen him more.
 * - Singer from / from Monkeywrench Radio show, after listening to What Will You Say.

 * Both songs are beautiful (Lilac Wine, James Shelton, and Corpus Christi Carol by Benjamin Britten). It's my tribute to Jeff.  The record he has left is very emotional, very beautiful.  An intriguing work, challenging.  Using only his voice, he reaches regions of unimaginable feeling.  But, while recording the songs he chose for himself, I am not stealing it because they are two very different visions.  I think he would approve.  I have the impression that Jeff Buckley, although he had a very brief passage through life, has become something like Jimi Hendrix, whose presence remains forever.
 * – Guitarist from /The Jeff Beck Group/The Honeydrippers/Beck. Bogert & Appice/Stevie Ray Vaughan/Big Town Playboys/Upp/Eric Clapton

Thom: “Wow! No, but Jeff Buckley gave me confidence to sing in falsetto. And the Cocteaus are cool.” Colin: “When we were recording ‘Fake Plastic Trees’, we went to see Jeff Buckley play at The Garage. He just had a Telecaster and a pint of Guinness and it was just fucking amazing. Then we went back to the studio and tried an acoustic version of ‘Fake Plastic Trees'. Thom sat down and played it in three takes, then burst into tears afterwards. And that’s what we used for the record.”
 * “A SHAMELESS RIP-OFF OF JEFF BUCKLEY AND THE COCTEAU TWINS.”
 * – Singer and guitarist from
 * – Guitarist from Radiohead, from the September 1997 issue of VOX

 * I think the Jeff Buckley record, Grace, is...it's on my MP3 player (laughs). And it holds up incredibly well.
 * Singer/Guitarist from from Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Channel 4 (2005)

 * I'm just, you know, I'm constantly surprised that so many people do not know about him, still, and at the same time, there's something very, very beautiful about that. It just keeps slowly kind of building, expanding...
 * from the BBC documentary, Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You

 * He tapped into something...and he was the conduit...and it makes me think of this: where does art come from; where does a true genius come from?
 * from the BBC documentary, Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You

 * Yeah, I found him because, it was actually my wife had him ― had the disc, had him ― she wishes...had the disc, and it came on one night, and you hear that opening tune of Mojo Pin ― it's that real soft, that haunting thing off in the distance ― and I remember asking, "what is that?" She says, "that's Jeff Buckley."  Where have I been?  Do I know nothing?  And since then it's just been a bit of an obsession, I guess.
 * from the BBC documentary, Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You

 * There's an undercurrent to his music. There's something you can't pinpoint, like the best of films or the best of art, there's something going on underneath, and there's a truth there, and I find his stuff absolutely haunting.  It's just...it's under my skin.
 * from the BBC documentary, Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You

 * He's Plant and Page, in one, on a technical level; it's mind-blowing.
 * from the BBC documentary, Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You

 * The fact that people are finding him now, a decade later ― almost a decade later ― is a testament to what he was doing. For me, the big...the thing that distinguishes him the most, is that he was about love; he was very interested in love.  He had no qualms, no shame with addressing the topic, and the subject of love.  And that's...I wouldn't think was brave for him, I think it was something he was led to do ― he had to do ― but, you know, you look around, most of us are trying to be tough guys, and trying to be De Niros, and so on, and so forth, and here was a guy who went the complete opposite direction, in the middle of the '90s.  I have a lot of respect for that, 'cause I have this feeling, at the end of the day, you know, when were all said and done, it's all that's gonna matter, isn't it.
 * outtake from the BBC documentary, Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You

 * People my age all flocked to see Jeff, you know. Because we were so, just to hear that voice again.  He would have been so pissed off with it by now.  All these old toothless hags hanging around the stage door, you know.  He was just shit hot, I gotta say.
 * from the BBC documentary, Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You

 * Interviewer: With Jeff, what stage of Jeff's career did you actually become aware of him and his work?

Chrissie: He was playing at The Garage, on his own ― he didn't have a band ― I don't know what year that was. It was probably fairly early; I mean, there was a short career...and he was standing next to me at the bar, afterward ― so we started talking ― and I actually had a rehearsal studio, which we'd been working at that day, just around the corner, and I said, "hey, do you wanna come around, and...I'd gone to see him with John McEnroe, actually, who was in town...and Jeff was just there on his own, maybe with very small crew, if any crew ― I don't remember ― it was just him playing guitar. I asked John to give him a hand with his amps, and that was fun to see ― to see John act as a roadie for this kid ― anyway, we all went around to my rehearsal studio and had kind of a jam ― or he had kind of a jam ― I was mesmerized.  He was such a great guitar player, Jeff.  That seems to be something that people have...I think when someone's a good singer and songwriter, you tend to overlook that, but he was a shit hot guitar player. He really blew us away that night, when we saw what he was really up to with the guitar.
 * outtake from the BBC documentary, Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You

 * Jeff Buckley was a pure drop in an ocean of noise.
 * of from Mojo Magazine, August 1997

 * [Talking about Grace] Apart from being my favourite word or name in the English language, Grace overpowers karma. Grace does not make sense.  It rewards where rewards are not justified.  It covers where no cover is expected.  It is the highest human state.  Jeff Buckley's voice reminds me of the first line of the old Salvation Army hymn "Amazing Grace how sweet the sound."  Grace as a signature.  Grace personified in one man's vibrato − a delicate, tremulous voice which rightfully betrays its Middle Eastern tutelage.  Jeff was trained in Sufi singing.  His ululating voice reminds me how few singers there are in Rock and Roll.
 * of taken from the December 1999 issue of Propaganda

 * Interviewer: You kind of do a farewell, I guess, to Jeff Buckley at the end of some of your recent shows. I know you guys recorded the same song, at one time ― and we're going to play Hallelujah in just a minute ― but you could talk a little bit about him?  Who wants to talk about Jeff Buckley?

The Edge: He was just an incredible singer. We're big fans of his album, and it's a very special record, and ran into him a couple of times in New York, saw him perform in Sin-é, in New York...

Bono interjects: You know Sin-é; have you heard of that place? (interviewer: "no.");

The Edge: It's a small, little club.

Bono interjects, again: "It's an Irish-run coffee shop. What are you laughing at?  He always laughs when I say the word, 'poetry.' It was a great venue for lots of people; The Pogues, Jeff Buckley, Gavin Friday, and that's what you're talking about, isn't it?

The Edge: Yeah, it's a great, little place to somebody in the raw, and he was playing just with acoustic guitar; anyway, just really sad because I think he had an incredible talent, and I was looking forward to his next record, as I'm sure a lot of people were.

(Interview pauses as they play Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah)

Interviewer: We have U2 here in the studio on 106.7 KROQ, and actually, Bono, you were sort of pointing out something you really admired about Jeff Buckley as a singer, during that last song. Could you share that with our audience, please?

Bono: I was just envious; just raw envy. It was just that last coda on that last tune. It's a Leonard Cohen song.

Interviewer: Extended note, about 22 seconds.

Bono: He lasts, yeah, just 22 seconds of singing without a new breath. It's not important to the outside world, but for me, you know, it's very humbling.

Interviewer: Well, the reason I thought it was important is because it was meaningful to you (Bono: "yeah."), and if there's anybody listening to the Jeff Buckley song and appreciative of the comments we made just before that, they can know that Bono was sitting here admiring the very same thing.

Bono: Yeah, I was; I was.
 * of
 * from from a KROQ 106.7 radio interview with Jed The Fish from June 20, 1997.

 * Jeff is one of my favorite musicians and singers of all time. Never have I seen such infinite musical potential in anyone.  It's just gone.  It's chilling how much it hurts.
 * from Canada's JAM! Music

 * I hope that people who liked him resist the temptation to turn his life and death into some dumb romantic fantasy; he was so much better than that. Not everyone can get up and sing something they take a liking to and make it their own, sing true to their heart, and be curious about all different strains of music.  Corpus Christi Carol was a completely conceived interpretation.  I'd never heard the piece before, and when I heard the original, I realised what Jeff had done was even more amazing.  He'd taken it into his own world.  That's something my favorite classical musicians can do, be themselves but use all that expertise to make the music more beautiful.  Jeff did that naturally. Only a handful of people are capable of that.  I was amazed when he did Meltdown.  I asked him what he wanted to sing and he said he'd like to do one of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder in the original German!  Absolutely fucking fearless.  He was convinced he could sing it without rehearsal, just because he liked it.  In the end he did a Purcell song, Dido's Lament, which is in danger of sounding incredibly poignant in retrospect: 'Remember me but forget my fate'. But he also sang Boy With the Thorn In His Side because he liked it, and Grace to show something of himself.  When he started singing Dido's Lament at the rehearsal, there were all these classical musicians who could not believe it.  Here's a guy, shuffling up on-stage, and singing a piece of music normally thought to be the property of certain types of specifically developed voice, and he's just singing, not doing it like a party piece, but doing something with it.  My last memory of him was at the little party in the green room afterwards. There were all these people sitting round Jeff who'd never met before - Fretwork, the viol group, a classical pianist, and some jazz player ― all talking and laughing about music.  He'd charmed everybody.  I'd much rather remember that than anything.
 * from Mojo Magazine, August 1997.

 * Q: What songs do you wish you could sing?

A: It would be great to sing [Purcell’s] “When I Am Laid in Earth” like Jeff Buckley did at Meltdown in ’95. It was astonishing to hear him sing this piece of music from Jacobean times, and it just feel like it could’ve been written for his voice. But he had such a gift of an instrument of a voice. He could turn that to all sorts of music that took his interest, and it didn’t sound in any way an affectation that he did it. He would sing Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan pieces he’d learn phonetically; he didn’t understand the language. He talked about singing Mahler at that festival. I said, “That’s in German. Do you speak German?” “No, I’ll learn it.” I was curating that festival. Now it’s very poignant because it was his last performance in London, but we didn’t know that then. His life was ahead. There was all these great things that he was still going to do. That was just a very sad coincidence. We should be happy that he sang it that one time. You heard him sing something like [“When I Am Laid in Earth”], surely you’ve heard Grace, you’ve heard “Corpus Christi Carol” by Benjamin Britten — he could sing that as well as he could sing a song by Morrissey, although why anybody would want to do that, I don’t know. Or a song by Led Zeppelin; why anybody would want to do that, I don’t know, but he did. That’s his choice.
 * from the Rolling Stone article: The Last Word: Elvis Costello on Reassessing His Back Catalog and Why He’s a ‘Freak of Nature’ - January 14, 2022.

 * It's a beautiful record (Grace). The thing that strikes you, I think, most of all, is his voice.  I mean, it's a singers record, in my opinion.
 * from VH1 Top 100 Rock Albums | #73 Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994).

 * Coming up next is Jeff Buckley. A guy who is not only a great singer and a great player, but at one time was a very nice hotel manager.  A lot of people don't realize this, but in about 1985-86, he used to work at the front desk at the Magic Hotel in Los Angeles.  And I know because it was a real CD kind of a flophouse for musicians and Jeff worked at the front desk and took a lot of messages from me.  So, Jeff, here's to ya.
 * from an intro to a French tv program called, Nulle Part Ailleurs on Canal+, January 1995.

 * [On recording Jeff Buckley's, Grace] I really wanted to share this because I felt Anthony Snape did such a great job of this seemingly impossible song to cover: Jeff Buckley's 'Grace.' Jeff was like a comet passing through, and he left his mark forever.  He is 'gone too soon,' but through his songs, he lives on.

 * GAP: Who is your favorite musical artist?

Brandon Boyd: Jeff Buckley

When he came out everyone was a little afraid to commit. Well not everybody, but a lot of popular artists were afraid to commit completely to what they were doing. They kind of used irony as a sheet around them, kind of protecting them from having to own up to what they said. Not only did he have one of the best voices I have ever heard, he was one hundred percent committed to what he was doing. He was unabashedly romantic in his lyrics, and the way he sang. He got some flak for it while he was alive, and it sucks because when someone dies people start to say maybe he was awesome, and they begin to analyze it differently. For those reasons, and I can go on forever about the guy. His voice has been influential to a lot of current artists, to people who might not even admit it, really. Just his range and where he would even try to go with his voice. The guts to go from one octave to two above. Not a lot of people are doing that...so also his falsetto influence has influenced me as well.
 * of from GAP Fall 2005 Backstage Pass "Their Favorite Things" (http://www.gap.com/allaccess/backstage_pass.html)

 * The record I would like to talk about today is Grace by Jeff Buckley. There are only a handful of albums that I've ever listened to that have captured me in the way that this album was able to capture me, and actually still holds up so many years after having first heard it.  You know, most albums were able to date and over-contextualize and they kind of lose their importance to us over the years, as we grow up and stuff, and there are certain records that aren't able to do that at all and Jeff Buckley's, Grace, is one of them.  His voice is...he's the best male singer I have ever heard in my life and he even rivals some female singers; so, check it out.
 * of and Sons of the Sea from On The Record with Rhapsody

 * Once again, this album doesn’t really need explanation. Jeff Buckley’s only album is one of the greatest, most complete albums ever made.  Listen to the whole thing.  It’s so emotional, it never fails to get under my skin.  It can still give me goosebumps, choke me up and inspire me to go deeper as an artist.  It’s also one of the loneliest records – it’s most powerful to listen to all alone with headphones.  It’s not the kind of album that you think of cranking up in the car when you’re driving down the PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) with your buddies – it’s a solo experience.  His vocal performance during “Lilac Wine…” God — that song!  He sounds like he’s crying.  You can feel his pain during that vocal performance.  I can feel his pain just thinking about that song now.  I often think about what he would have created if he’d stuck around a little longer.
 * from 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Sammy Hagar (September 30, 2022)

 * Dr. Drew: What will you remember most about the '90s?

Sebastian Bach: The album Grace by Jeff Buckley. Unless you've heard it, you wouldn't know why.

Dr. Drew: What's your favorite album for a night of steamy monkey love?

Sebastian Bach: Jeff Buckley's Grace is the most romantic, sensual album I've heard in my life.
 * – Skid Row from Dr. Drew Online Interview (http://drdrew.com/DrewLive/article.asp?id=1022)

 * Q:What are you listening to on your Walkman?

Sebastian Bach: I listen to Jeff Buckley. He's my favorite singer. We actually cover a Jeff Buckley tune called "Eternal Life" in our set. When he died it really hit me, because he was an incredible singer who only did one album, Grace, and his voice was so beautiful that I couldn't believe it when he died. Since he's not around to sing songs anymore, we decided we'd give it a shot.
 * – Skid Row from http://www.wweek.com/html/sbach0527998.html

 * You ever heard of a guy named Jeff Buckley? He's one of the best singers I've ever heard.
 * – Skid Row from Skid Row's Forever Wild DVD, before covering Eternal Life

 * My singing used to be awful, admits Folds. I don't have Jeff Buckley's voice.  I don't write songs as an excuse to hear myself sing.  It's the other way around: I sing so I can hear my songs.  It can be kind of scary.  You're on the radio next to ― well, on the shelf next to Jeff Buckley.  We're in the Bs. People can flip through and pick up his record instead and hear a lot better singer.  He has that knack.  I've had to really work at it.  Of course, he probably doesn't play piano as well as me.  I'm not going to get all competitive with the guy because obviously he's not doing so well these days.
 * of, from CMJ, February 1998.

 * "I had this really interesting whispering vibrato. It sounded so intimate and spiritual and ethereal, and it reminded me of Jeff a bit.  I think I can sing with just about anybody, but he's one of the few singers who truly intimidates me.  He's one of the best I've ever heard."
 * from Rolling Stone Magazine Interview (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/11135026/hear_our_talk_with_john_legend_kanye_in_the_studio_loving_stevie_wonder_and_more)

 * "Jeff Buckley is one of the greatest vocalists that I’ve ever heard. Listening to him is inspiring, moving, spiritual.  What a gift.  He’s inspired many admirers and imitators but no one can duplicate him."
 * from the liner notes of So Real: Songs from Jeff Buckley

 * In September 2007, a poll of fifty songwriters conducted by the magazine Q listed "Hallelujah" among the all-time "Top 10 Greatest Tracks" with John Legend calling Buckley's version "as near perfect as you can get. The lyrics to 'Hallelujah' are just incredible and the melody's gorgeous and then there's Jeff's interpretation of it.  It's one of the most beautiful pieces of recorded music I've ever heard."

 * Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
 * from Rolling Stone Magazine, June 2001

 * The last few records that I bought that I really enjoyed...Jeff Buckley. It wailed me.  I was like walking around in tears, just so grateful that I discovered this record.
 * – Guitarist from Virtual Guitar Magazine (http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/JeffBuckley/17.html)

 * I think he had one of the best voices I've ever heard. Grace, I think, is the best album of the '90s.
 * –, from segment #73 of VH1's 100 Greatest Albums of Rock & Roll

 * Jeff was a beautiful man. Grace is an album full of the most beautiful songs, and he possessed an equally gorgeous voice.  When we lost him, we lost a fantastic talent.
 * - Jeff Buckley Graces UK, Mar. 11-20, 1994 nominated by Boy George. Mojo, Jan, 2000

 * The reason why I think that record is a great album is just the uniqueness of hearing a man sing so beautifully, and the record, to me, spills with emotion, the whole time.
 * – Singer from, the Neptunes, Eve, Sublime from VH1 Top 100 Rock Albums | #73 Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994)

 * Jeff Buckley's Lilac Wine is the most beautiful thing ever recorded...
 * - Singer from

 * There was a period when I couldn’t get through the day without hearing him sing 'Hallelujah' 3 or 4 times. He had a one in a billion voice and an emotionally piercing guitar style and...I know everyone is saying this, but it hurts so much to lose an artist who was capable of so much before he'd had a chance to do his best work.  I guess I should be thankful for what there is: the album "Grace," his first EP, the bootleg live cassettes floating around, and whatever SONY will inevitably scrape together for release.  It’s a fucking shame.
 * Letter posted to the internet on June 19th, 1997

 * I just wanted to pay tribute to him and talk about the situation. When asked if it was a conscious thing to give an Eastern flavor to the song, Sheik says, "definitely... I know that he was, like, a big fan of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and he was listening to a lot of that kind of music.  There's also just a really mournful quality to that kind of string playing. "I wanted to send him off and say a few things about how much his music moved me and other people.
 * on from Jeff Buckley Newsletter, November 19, 1999 (http://www.jeffbuckley.com/newsletter/v1_n8/english/08.html)

 * His voice is an incredible instrument, angelic, and powerful, and mean, at the same time. Tortured.  He has been a huge inspiration and influence to me over the last two years.  This tune is just unreal.
 * – Blues artist, from Rolling Stone Magazine, issues #820, September 2, 1999

 * This beautiful-looking guy with a fur coat and mad, curly hair walked in. He went to the bar and got a pint of Guinness, then plugged in his Fender and began to sing.  Everybody was completely blown away. Who was it?  It was Jeff Buckley.
 * of Travis from Dream Brother (the book) written by David Browne.

 * Even if he didn't sell a huge amount of records in the U.S., he had a lot of impact...

On writing "Grace": I just had faith that whatever he did would be good...I was stunned ― it was so beautiful and perfect...It surpassed anything that I thought he was going to do...I remember thinking, man, this music will shake the world. I was just scared by it.
 * – Guitarist – from Press-Enterprise, June 29, 1997

 * It was the kind of collaboration I dream about, actually. His voice sounded, you know, like an angel.  Like a gift from God.
 * – Guitarist from NBC Edgewise Tribute on MSNBC from 1997.

 * I don't hear that many current records that really change my life. I've found it in Jeff Buckley, and I find it in Björk, on occasion.
 * – Music Producer, from ("Listen to This!: Leading Musicians Recommend Their Favorite Recordings" by In Alan Reder and John Baxterís)

 * He was just really spontaneous, and it was just exciting. I was having a hard time in the band I was in, and so to meet Jeffrey was just like being given a set of paints.  Do you know what I mean?  It was just like I had all this colour in my life again.  I mean, he idolized me before he met me.  It's kind of creepy and I, I was like that with him.  This is embarrassing, but it's the truth.  I just couldn't help falling in love with him.  He was adorable.  I read his diaries, he read mine, you know we'd just swap, we'd literally just hand over this very personal stuff, and I've never done that with anybody else.  I don't know if he has.  So in some ways it was very, there was a great deal of intimacy but then there'd be times when I'd just think "oh no, I'm just not penetrating this Jeff Buckley boy at all.  I just felt like a groupie or something, sometimes.  It wasn't like being his partner at all.  He just had something you wanted, it didn't matter who you were.
 * – Singer from / from the BBC documentary, Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You

 * I’d love to sing with Jeff Buckley. He is currently making his first album, and if it’s anything like a radio session I heard by him, it should be amazing.  He’s written this song called ‘Grace,' which literally makes the hair on my neck stand on end.  I was sweating like a fucking June bride when I first heard him.  Music has never done that to me before.
 * – Cocteau Twins/This Mortal Coil

 * I'm here because I adore his spirit, and I adore him, and the place from which he creates.
 * - from SPIN Magazine, September 2000

 * I just love his spirit, and his whole energy, and I also love when men use their voice so unselfconsciously, and just really...feminine, masculine, all over the place. And he just, um...he was, and is, my favourite.
 * - from MTV 120 Minutes, 1999.

 * Never heard such a range, and such a purity. When he would place one note next to the other, you could actually see its kind of roundness.
 * – Music Producer – from NBC Edgewise Tribute on MSNBC from 1997.

 * I saw my favorite bands, Rage Against the Machine, ten years ago also, Jeff Buckley, in '94, so as well I learned a lot about music through coming to this festival, so it means lot to me taking chance to headlining here.
 * - - from the interview in Reading Festival 2006

 * I wanted to fuse together my favorite elements of rock and soul singers into something I could call my own. The inflections of Stevie Wonder with the soaring qualities of someone like Buckley.  It was his emotional intensity that inspired me more than anything.  Also, Jeff came along at a time most singers weren’t using their upper register.  His approach helped me embrace the fact that I was a tenor.  I owe that guy a lot.
 * - Frontman from an online Jamie Vendera interview (http://www.jaimevendera.com/myleskennedyi.html)

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F. Lee Bailey

Francis Lee Bailey Jr., commonly referred to as F. Lee Bailey, (born June 10, 1933 – June 3, 2021) is a famed American defense attorney. He is well-known for his penchant for seeking out the media, as well as the high-profile cases he has been involved in.

Quotes

 * Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.
 * Newsweek, 17 April 1967.

 * The defendant in a courtroom is little more than a patient on an operating table without the benefit of anaesthesia. He has to watch what's happening, but he can't do anything about it. He hasn't the understanding of the law, the ability to try cases or any of the other skills required of his lawyer. So the lawyer is a projection of the defendant. He's doing everything the defendant would do if he were able—short of suborning perjury and other nonpermissible tactics.
 * Playboy, August 1967.

 * Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
 * New York Times, 20 September 1970.

 * I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn’t set up the ground rules.
 * New York Times, 20 September 1970.

 * I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.
 * Los Angeles Times, January 9, 1972.

 * The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.
 * Los Angeles Times, January 9, 1972.

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Mike Malloy

Mike Malloy (born July 1, 1942) is a far left radio talk show host.

About The Mike Malloy Show

 * "It's not the position of this program, or me, or [wife/program producer] Kathy [Bay], or anybody associated with this program to try to educate anybody about anything. You take from this program what you want; if you think I'm a wacko left-wing communist nutcase - fine! Run with it...jerk!  If you think it's a fun program, go with that.  If you get something - a link - go with that.

I'm not here to educate you. I'm not that arrogant. I'm not that patronizing. I'm not that condescending. I assume that you do your own work and your own research and you take care of your own political education.

I've said it before: the function of this program is for some of us who are still sane, can get together in the evening and talk about the insanity. There's no solutions here. You want solutions, listen to Thom Hartmann. You want rational reasonable thought, listen to Peter Werbe."  (Last five minutes of MP3)

On Donald Rumsfeld

 * You know, I talk about doing acid 30 years ago. Rumsfeld must do it daily.  Right before he goes out for a press conference:  "Oh, hi... I notice the doorknobs are all crawling around the ceiling.  Hello!  Oh, there's CNN. Oh gee! Look at the big eye on that camera! Oh, God, get it away from me!  And the teeth!" ... You think I'm kidding about this guy does acid?  And he does the bad stuff.  The brown acid. ... Where did this guy come from?  What pit of Hell coughed this thug up?! ... Rummy comes out, all acid-headed up, just stoned on his ass - just completely freaked out. "Well, people are waving things at me, coming down the hall... And I don't know, there's stuff JUMPING OUT OF DOORS! ... GIMME SOME NUCLEAR WEAPONS!"

On Foreign Policy

 * We are a violent society. Our foreign policy is based on violence. Barack Obama is out there, being this charming, incredibly warm human being, and you know as well as I do, that he represents a nation whose primary directive is kill. Kill, loot, pillage, take. You don't believe that? Then let me ask you something. Does Cuba have a military presence in 140 countries? No. Does Russia? No. Does China? No. Does-- go ahead, pick one! Go ahead! There's one country on earth that has a military presence in 140 countries. And it's us. And why do we have it there? Why do we have them there? This is a violent society!

On Hurricane Katrina

 * This Democratic whore, Bill Clinton - all of a sudden, I can't stand him anymore. To me, he is as corrupt and degenerate as the Bushes. He has become almost like an associate of the Bush Crime Family. ... I've had enough of this son of a bitch. I've had enough of him, and his crazy-ass wife. I've had enough, OK? The Clintons can go straight to Hell, along with the Bushes. I've had enough of Bill Clinton; I've had it with this guy. ... I'll say it again: Why isn't Clinton grabbing them by their neckties and shaking them until both these old bastards’ teeth rattle out of their mouths, about why they have destroyed the United States? But that's not Clinton. (on Clinton working with George Bush Sr. and George W Bush following Hurricane Katrina.)

 * What about the people that couldn't get out?! Someday it's gonna happen to you, Chertoff! ... You won't have a car, and you won't have a government airplane, and you won't have a cell phone, and you won't have a weapon! ... Blaming the victim... You filthy pig! You filthy, good-for-nothing Bush Crime Family member! ... Oh, these people just make me furious! (reacting to Michael Chertoff talking about people that couldn't leave New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina.)

On John Ashcroft

 * Bush gets appointed to the presidency, and he gives Ashcroft the job of Attorney General? A religiously insane, jack-booted thug? ... The people who knew him best: The people in the state where he had been Attorney General, where he had been Governor, where he had been Senator, they knew him best. They said "No, it's time to get rid of this moron. Because he's REALLY gone over the edge!" So they voted for Mel Carnahan, who happened to be killed in a plane crash before the election - and the voters knew that! Did that make them say "Uh, I guess we can't vote for a dead man..." NO! They voted for the dead man! The voters in Missouri are saying "we'd rather have a dead man as our representative in the United States Senate, than him!" And Kathy, don't you dare play any of his records! I don't want to hear "Soar like an eagle, I'll soar like..." - don't do it! I'll walk off the program today if you play that.

On John Kerry

 * The guy's a war hero. He's not a coward like George Bush.  He didn't duck into a Champagne unit in the Texas Air National Guard and disappear like George Bush.

On Republicans

 * Republicans are vile. All Republicans are liars, cheats, sneaks; they are deceivers.  They are immoral, and they have no ethical structure whatsoever.  I don't care if they're members of Congress or your momma.  If they are Republicans, they are thugs.  They support mass murder.  They support the destruction of this country.

On Rush Limbaugh

 * Do a Google on 'penis envy' and then listen to Rush Limbaugh. ... You will hear penis envy where it concerns Clinton.

 * I don't think Limbaugh has ever had children. If he did, he probably cooked them and ate them for dinner one night... Thinking it was a big chunk of lamb, or something. (Responding to listener talking about the reluctancy among right-wingers to send their kids into war, while discussing Limbaugh)

On Wolf Blitzer

 * Wolf was in Israel, because that's where Wolf belongs, with Ariel Sharon about to croak. ... Wolf is an old friend of Ariel's. Wolf - remember - was the Washington Bureau Chief of the Jerusalem Post, before he signed on with CNN to work 80 hours a day.  Ummm...  I'm so sick of his face, I could just scream.  You know, people e-mail me and say "What do you mean, he's a former German U-Boat commander?"  Look - if you don't get it, you don't get it.  But every movie made in the 40's about the German U-Boats had a guy who looked just like Wolf Blitzer.  And his name is, um... German.  (Beginning of the show)

On the Bush family and their associates

 * You sons of bitches. I just hate you.  I hate you to the depths of my soul.  I will hate you when I'm dead.  I will hate you a million years after I'm dead.  I will still hate you.  My hate will be a star in the firmament that will shine down on your Republican asses forever.  That's how deep this hatred is, because of what you're doing to this country.  Ooh, did I say all that?

 * In the run-up to World War II, they helped Hitler build the death camps to take the Jews and kill them. Take the gays and kill them.  Take the socialists and kill them.  Take the Polish partisans and kill them.  Take the gypsies and kill them.  The Bush Family is eye-ball deep in blood, blood, blood.  (presumably a reference to the financial support given to Hitler by Prescott Bush, George W. Bush's grandfather)

On the impeachment of Bill Clinton

 * They were fascinated with Clinton's penis, and they never got a chance to see it, which is all they wanted. They wanted Clinton to have to disrobe in a court of law during the deposition that he had to give for the Paula Jones case.  They didn't get a chance to see his penis.  All Republican men are hooked on Viagra. ... Levitra, Cialis.  These are what Republican men need in order to get an erection.  And it's because they never got a chance to see Clinton's penis.  Now they have transferred that to Hillary [Clinton]'s vagina.  They are desperate to see Hillary's vagina.  They must...they are fascinated with Hillary as a bitch goddess of some sort, and they want to worship at the vagina.  They are sick, sick people...  What would happen if Hillary died tomorrow?  They would construct a Hillary Clinton vagina at which they would worship.  Now, they hate the vagina as well as worshiping at it... They are sick.  I've never seen a group of people more sick, in this country, than Republican men.  They are sick beyond belief.  But they are hung up on genitalia.  First it was Clinton's penis, now it's Hillary's vagina.  This is where they will always remain.

On the conflict in Gaza

 * How do you stand this? I don't care who you are; man, woman, gay, straight, black, white, Jew, gentile, it doesn't make any difference - how do you stand this? I can't. I can not...I can't handle this- You wanna know how I deal with this? When I finish these topics, or these letters, or these diaries, or these reports, and the show's over, I have to blank my mind - literally. Can you do that? I can, I have learned how to do that. I blank it out. I don't know where Israel is, I don't know what Palestinian means, I don't know what burned and mutilated children have to do with anything - it means nothing, it goes away. I must draw a dark black curtain in my consciousness. I can not deal with this, how do you? I have children, I've had children, I have grand-children, I have a four-and-a-half year-old... This is not right! This is not right... [Mike cuts feed to music early]

Dialogue

 * Mike: Harry is calling from New York. Oh my God, are you a flying monkey, Harry?
 * Harry: Hey Mike, nice way to stall the clock. Listen...
 * Mike: What? "Stall the clock", what do you mean?
 * Harry: Well, you got complaints with everybody. You don't like the Republicans, you don't like the Democrats... I think you just don't like this country, just like you don't like God. [Mike laughs] And what are you gonna do on Christmas? Reading out the Bible, you atheist?
 * Mike: I read out of all kinds of religious texts. Don't you?
 * Harry: I don't think an atheist should be touching that Bible.
 * Mike: What will happen if I do? Will it make you burn up?
 * Harry: No, you can do it. Let me tell you something: I've never been so proud of my President, as I am right now.
 * Mike: Yeah, why?
 * Harry: [silence] I don't know... I just know that he's a great American.
 * Mike: Yeah, how? [more silence - Harry hangs up, Mike laughs] Way to go, Harry! Yeah, we didn't hang up on Harry. Harry started to wet himself, and had to hang up real quick...

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Talk:Monty Python's Life of Brian

Order
All these quotes are out of order from how they are said in the movie! Who wants to reorganize them...? -- 64.185.128.70 05:08, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Be bold! Feel free to do it yourself. Wikis work best when people who recognize a problem tackle it when they see it. And please sign and date your talk-page postings by adding four tildes ( ~ ) to the end, which the wiki software will convert into a signature and timestamp. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:24, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

romanes eunt domus

 * [Brian is writing graffiti on the palace wall. The Centurion catches him in the act]
 * Centurion: What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"? People called Romanes, they go, the house?
 * Brian: It says, "Romans go home. "
 * Centurion: No it doesn't ! What's the Latin for "Roman"? Come on, come on !
 * Brian: Er, "Romanus" !
 * Centurion: Goes like?
 * Brian: "..annus"?
 * Centurion: Vocative plural of "Romanus" is?
 * Brian: Er, er, "..anni" ?
 * Centurion: "Romani"[Writes "Romani" over Brian's graffiti] "Eunt"? What is "eunt"?
 * Brian: Er, "Go"
 * Centurion: Conjugate the verb, "to go" !
 * Brian: Er, "Ire". Er, "eo", "is", "it", "imus", "itis", "eunt".
 * Centurion: So, "eunt" is...?
 * Brian: Third person plural present indicative, "they go".
 * Centurion: But, "Romans, go home" is an order. So you must use the...?
 * [He twists Brian's ear]
 * Brian: Aaagh ! The imperative !
 * Centurion: Which is...?
 * Brian: Aaaagh ! Er, er, "i" !
 * Centurion: How many Romans?
 * Brian: Aaaaagh ! Plural, plural, er, "ite" !
 * Centurion: "Ite"[Writes "ite"] "Domus"? Nominative? "Go home" this is motion towards, isn't it boy?
 * Brian: Dative, sir !
 * [the Centurion holds a sword to his throat]
 * Brian: Aaagh ! Not the dative, not the dative ! Er, er, accusative, accusative, "domum", sir, "Ad Domum" !
 * Centurion: Except that "Domus" takes the...?
 * Brian: The locative, sir!
 * Centurion: Which is...?
 * Brian: Er, "Domum" !
 * Centurion: "Domum"[Writes "Domum"] "..um". Understand?
 * Brian: Yes sir!
 * Centurion: Now, write it out a hundred times.
 * Brian: Yes sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.
 * Centurion: Hail Caesar ! And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
 * Brian: Oh thank you sir, thank you sir, hail Caesar and everything, sir!

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crucifixion dialogue
(A neighboured crucifixion victim (Eric Idle) is saying to Brian, just before the common 'Always look on...' song)
 * You came from nothing and you'll go back to nothing. So what you´ve lost ... Nothing.
 * (the original words have to be checked)

Centurions?
This page seems to have a lot of centurions in it. A centurion was famously the leader of a hundred Roman legionaries, hence the "cent" in "centurion". Suggest that some of these so-called centurions be replaced with "legionary" or "legionaries". (And NOT "legionaire"! What do you think this is, an Asterix book?) NelC (talk) 22:47, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

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Diogenes Laërtius

Diogenes Laërtius (fl. c. 3rd century AD), was a biographer of ancient Greek philosophers. His Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, in ten books, is still extant and is an important source of information on the development of Greek philosophy. The period when he lived is not exactly known, but it is supposed to have been during the reigns of Septimius Severus and Caracalla.

Book 1: The Seven Sages

 * Alcæus mentions Aristodemus in these lines:— ’T is money makes the man; and he who ’s none Is counted neither good nor honourable.
 * Thales, 8.

 * Thales said there was no difference between life and death. "Why, then," said some one to him, "do not you die?" "Because," said he, "it does make no difference."
 * Thales, 9.

 * When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, "To know one’s self." And what was easy, "To advise another."
 * Thales, 9.

 * He said that men ought to remember those friends who were absent as well as those who were present.
 * Thales, 9.

 * The apophthegm "Know thyself" is his.
 * Thales, 13. Compare" "There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man’s life: 'Know thyself', and 'Nothing too much'; and upon these all other precepts depend", Plutarch, Consolation to Apollonius.

 * Writers differ with respect to the apophthegms of the Seven Sages, attributing the same one to various authors.
 * Thales, 14.

 * Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions;... that laws were like cobwebs,—for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
 * Solon, 10.

 * Solon gave the following advice: "Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath. Never tell a lie. Pay attention to matters of importance."
 * Solon, 12.

 * As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess."
 * Solon, 16.

 * Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
 * Chilo, 2.

 * Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.
 * Pittacus, 2.

 * Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge."
 * Pittacus, 3.

 * One of his sayings was, "Even the gods cannot strive against necessity."
 * Pittacus, 4.

 * Another was, "Watch your opportunity."
 * Pittacus, 7.

 * Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.
 * Bias, 5.

 * Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.
 * Cleobulus, 4.

 * The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander’s.
 * Periander, 6.

Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

 * Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his comedies, as making the worse appear the better reason.
 * Socrates, 5.

 * Often when he was looking on at auctions he would say, "How many things there are which I do not need!"
 * Socrates, 10.

 * Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods."
 * Socrates, 11.

 * He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
 * Socrates, 14.

 * He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.
 * Socrates, 16.

 * Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it."
 * Socrates, 16.

 * He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live.
 * Socrates, 16.

 * Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death."
 * Anarcharsis, 5.

 * He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
 * Anarcharsis, 5.

 * The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.
 * Anacharsis, 5.

 * It was a common saying of Myson that men ought not to investigate things from words, but words from things; for that things are not made for the sake of words, but words for things.
 * Myson, 3.

 * Epimenides was sent by his father into the field to look for a sheep, turned out of the road at mid-day and lay down in a certain cave and fell asleep, and slept there fifty-seven years; and after that, when awake, he went on looking for the sheep, thinking that he had been taking a short nap.
 * Epimenides, 2.

 * There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.
 * Pherecydes, 2.

 * Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,—not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.
 * Anaximander, 2.

 * Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place."
 * Anaxagoras, 6.

 * Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men."
 * Aristippus, 4.

 * Once Diogenes, who was washing vegetables, ridiculed him as he passed by, and said, "If you had learnt to eat these vegetables, you would not have been a slave in the palace of a tyrant." But Aristippus replied, "And you, if you had known how to behave among men, would not have been washing vegetables."
 * Aristippus, 4.

 * Aristippus said that a wise man’s country was the world.
 * Aristippus, 13.

Book 3: Plato

 * Like sending owls to Athens, as the proverb goes.
 * Plato, 32.

 * Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.
 * Plato, 40.

 * Time is the image of eternity.
 * Plato, 41.

 * That virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness.
 * Plato, 42.

 * That the gods superintend all the affairs of men, and that there are such beings as dæmons.
 * Plato, 42.

 * There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.
 * Plato, 51.

Book 4: The Academy

 * Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces."
 * Xenocrates, 3.

 * Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this."
 * Arcesilaus, 12.

 * Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.
 * Bion, 3.

 * Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"—"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known."
 * Bion, 3.

 * Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, "That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him."
 * Bion, 3.

 * Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."
 * Bion, 9.

 * Old age is the harbor of all ills.
 * Bion, 47.

 * Wealth is the sinews of affairs.
 * Bion, 48.

 * The road to Hades is the easiest to travel.
 * Bion, 49.

 * He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.
 * Bion, 50.

 * Very late in life, when he was studying geometry, some one said to Lacydes, "Is it then a time for you to be learning now?" "If it is not," he replied, "when will it be?"
 * Lacydes, 5.

Book 5: The Peripatetics

 * Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, "That when they speak truth they are not believed."
 * Aristotle, 9.

 * The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."
 * Aristotle, 9.

 * He used to say that personal beauty was a better introduction than any letter; 18 but others say that it was Diogenes who gave this description of it, while Aristotle called beauty "the gift of God"; that Socrates called it "a short-lived tyranny"; Theophrastus, "a silent deceit"; Theocritus, "an ivory mischief"; Carneades, "a sovereignty which stood in need of no guards".
 * Aristotle, 9.

 * On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated: "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead."
 * Aristotle, 9.

 * It was a saying of his that education was an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
 * Aristotle, 9.

 * He was once asked what a friend is, and his answer was, "One soul abiding in two bodies."
 * Aristotle, 9.

 * Asked what he gained from philosophy, he answered, "To do without being commanded what others do from fear of the laws."
 * Aristotle, 9.

 * The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friends; and the answer he gave was, "As we should wish our friends to behave to us."
 * Aristotle, 9.

 * He used to define justice as "a virtue of the soul distributing that which each person deserved."
 * Aristotle, 9.

 * Another of his sayings was, that education was the best viaticum of old age.
 * Aristotle, 9.

 * The chief good he has defined to be the exercise of virtue in a perfect life.
 * Aristotle, 13.

 * He used to teach that God is incorporeal, as Plato also asserted, and that his providence extends over all the heavenly bodies.
 * Aristotle, 13.

 * It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
 * Theophrastus, 10.

Book 6: The Cynics

 * Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.
 * Antisthenes, 4.

 * When he was praised by some wicked men, he said, "I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing."
 * Antisthenes, 4.

 * When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned."
 * Antisthenes, 4.

 * Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.
 * Diogenes, 4 (note that this is Diogenes of Sinope).

 * "Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down."
 * Diogenes, 6.

 * One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger’s breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger.
 * Diogenes, 6.

 * All things are in common among friends.
 * Diogenes, 6.

 * "Be of good cheer," said Diogenes; "I see land."
 * Diogenes, 6.

 * Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato’s man." On which account this addition was made to the definition,—"With broad flat nails."
 * Diogenes, 6.

 * A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."
 * Diogenes, 6.

 * Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man."
 * Diogenes, 6.

 * When asked what he would take to let a man give him a blow on the head, he said, "A helmet."
 * Diogenes, 6.

 * Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue."
 * Diogenes, 6.

 * When asked what wine he liked to drink, he replied, "That which belongs to another."
 * Diogenes, 6.

 * Asked from what country he came, he replied, "I am a citizen of the world."
 * Diogenes, 6.

 * When a man reproached him for going into unclean places, he said, "The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them."
 * Diogenes, 6.

 * Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper."
 * Menedemus, 3.

Book 7: The Stoics

 * When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I."
 * Zeno, 19.

 * They say that the first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself.
 * Zeno, 52.

 * One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
 * Zeno, 53.

 * The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.
 * Zeno, 68.

 * They also say that God is an animal immortal, rational, perfect, and intellectual in his happiness, unsusceptible of any kind of evil, having a foreknowledge of the universe and of all that is in the universe; however, that he has not the figure of a man; and that he is the creator of the universe, and as it were the Father of all things in common, and that a portion of him pervades everything.
 * Zeno, 72.

 * But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.
 * Zeno, 74.

 * Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty."
 * Chrysippus, 3.

 * One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it."
 * Chrysippus, 11.

Book 8: Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans

 * Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.
 * Pythagoras, 4.

 * He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.
 * Pythagoras, 6.

 * Among what he called his precepts were such as these: Do not stir the fire with a sword. Do not sit down on a bushel. Do not devour thy heart.
 * Pythagoras, 17.

 * In the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase Ipse dixit was introduced into ordinary life.
 * Pythagoras, 25.

Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics

 * Xenophanes was the first person who asserted... that the soul is a spirit.
 * Xenophanes, 3.

 * It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
 * Xenophanes, 3.

 * Protagoras asserted that there were two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
 * Protagoras, 3.

 * Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
 * Diogenes of Apollonia, 2.

 * Xenophanes speaks thus:— And no man knows distinctly anything, And no man ever will.
 * Pyrrho, 8.

 * Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down."
 * Pyrrho, 8.

 * Euripides says,— Who knows but that this life is really death, And whether death is not what men call life?
 * Pyrrho, 8.

 * The mountains, too, at a distance appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand, they are rough.
 * Pyrrho, 9.

 * If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.
 * Pyrrho, 11.

 * The chief good is the suspension of the judgment, which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
 * Pyrrho, 11.

Book 10: Epicurus

 * Epicurus laid down the doctrine that pleasure was the chief good.
 * Epicurus, 6.

 * He alludes to the appearance of a face in the orb of the moon.
 * Epicurus, 25.

 * Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.
 * Epicurus, 27.

 * Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. And to say that the season for studying philosophy has not yet come, or that it is past and gone, is like saying that the season for happiness is not yet or that it is now no more.
 * 122, in Moral Exhortation (1986), p. 33

Misattributed

 * Just step aside for me to enjoy the sunshine.
 * Actually said by his namesake Diogenes of Sinope, when asked by Alexander the Great if there was anything he wanted.
 * Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Alexander", ch. 14, section 4.

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Fools

A fool refers to someone being ignorant and confused about matters; someone duped, an unwise person or a madman.
 * For the play by Neil Simon, see Fools (play)

Quotes

 * Alphabetized by author or source

 * A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
 * Douglas Adams in Mostly Harmless (1992).

 * A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
 * Aeschylus in Fragments, Fragment 383, as translated by Morris H. Morgan.

 * It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
 * Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound (c. 478 BC), as translated by David Grene.

 * Do not associate with a fool because he will beautify his actions before you and long that you too be like him.
 * Ali, Nahj al-Balagha, Hadith n. 293, at the.

 * Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
 * Robert Benchley, quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) by Herbert Victor Prochnow, p. 129.

 * Trouble comes looking for you if you’re a fool.
 * Gregory Benford, To the Storming Gulf, (Originally published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1985. Reprinted in the collection In Alien Flesh, 1986).

 * FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent. He it was who invented letters, printing, the railroad, the steamboat, the telegraph, the platitude and the circle of the sciences. He created patriotism and taught the nations war—founded theology, philosophy, law, medicine and Chicago. He established monarchical and republican government. He is from everlasting to everlasting—such as creation's dawn beheld he fooleth now. In the morning of time he sang upon primitive hills, and in the noonday of existence headed the procession of being. His grandmotherly hand was warmly tucked-in the set sun of civilization, and in the twilight he prepares Man's evening meal of milk-and-morality and turns down the covers of the universal grave. And after the rest of us shall have retired for the night of eternal oblivion he will sit up to write a history of human civilization.
 * Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Word Book (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911). (The definition in the 1906 edition has "San Francisco" instead of "Chicago".)

 * A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
 * William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793).

 * If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
 * William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

 * Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.
 * Translation: A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
 * Variant A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
 * Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, L'Art Poétique (The Art of Poetry), Canto I, l. 232 (1674).

 * The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me!
 * Simón Bolívar, words reportedly said to his physician in his final days, but not his last words, as quoted in Our Lord Don Quixote : The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho, with Related Essays (1967) by Miguel de Unamuno, as translated by Anthony Kerrigan, p. 386
 * Variant translations or versions:
 * The three greatest fools (majaderos) of history have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote — and I!
 * As quoted in Simón Bolívar and Spanish American Independence, 1783-1830 (1968) by John J. Johnson and Doris M. Ladd, p. 115.
 * The three greatest idiots in history, have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and myself.
 * As quoted in Nineteenth-century Gallery : Portraits of Power and Rebellion (1970) by Stanley Edward Ayling, p. 122.
 * In the course of history, there have been three radicals: Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and... me.
 * The three biggest fools in the world have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and... me.
 * Jesus Christ, Don Quixote and I: three greatest fools of history.
 * We have sown the sea — Jesus Christ, Don Quixote and me: the three great fools of history...
 * I’ve been plowing in the sea. Jesus Christ, Don Quixote and I — the three great mavericks of history.

 * Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
 * Gene Brown, quoted in Wit (1998) by Des MacHale.

 * The reason why fools and knaves thrive better in the world than wiser and honester men is because they are nearer to the general temper of mankind, which is nothing but a mixture of cheat and folly.
 * Samuel Butler, in Prose Observations.

 * Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.
 * Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), no. 6, p. 15, used several times in reference to the citizens of Great Britain. Champ Clark, referring to this remark added, "While the percentage of fools in this country is not so large, there are still enough to fatten the swindlers…. The percentage of fools in this country is not so great as Carlyle states it, but nevertheless it is quite large."—Champ Clark, My Quarter Century of American Politics (1920), p. 213.

 * “So the princes thought, the fools!”... “Why ‘fools’?” she demanded. “Because they confuse that which they wish to be true with that which is true.”
 * Lin Carter, Vault of Silence, in Robert Hoskins (ed.) Swords Against Tomorrow (1970), p. 99 (ellipsis represents elision of a short passage of description)

 * You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools. As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. But on the score of fools it is a very different matter. I always feel the greatest bliss when I recollect those I have caught in my snares, for they generally are insolent, and so self-conceited that they challenge wit. We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part. In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
 * Giacomo Casanova, Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894).

 * These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools. This verse establishes uncompromisingly that all Gods — G capital, that is to say, 'true Gods' — and all men deified by legend or deceit — that is to say, false gods' — are fools. How come? It is a key. Distinction is clearly made between the two types: one are Gods; the other is men.
 * Aleister Crowley,  (1904), I:11.

 * Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
 * Cato the Elder, Plutarch's Life of Cato
 * Variant: Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

 * Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
 * George Chapman in All Fools (1605), act V, scene ii, lines 205–6. This was a common proverb which appeared not only in Chapman's play, first published in 1605, but in other works as well. See The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs (1970), p. 927–28.

 * Someone who believes in all the stories of the Baal Shem Tov and the other mystics and holy men is a fool; someone who looks at any single story and says “That one could not be true” is a heretic.
 * Chassidic proverb

 * 'Tis hard if all is false that I advance, A fool must now and then be right by chance.
 * William Cowper, Conversation, line 96-97 (1782).

 * I can tell you that only a fool destroys useful things merely because he doesn’t like them.
 * Avram Davidson,  Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 8

 * For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
 * The Bible, Ecclesiastes, 2:16.

 * A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, ''Essays: Second Series, "Experience" (1844).

 * Every man is made a fool through his own wisdom.
 * Desiderius Erasmus in "The Praise of Folly".

 * We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom; but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices, and private interests. By the help of these, artful men overpower their wisdom, and dupe its possessors; and if we may judge by the acts, arrêts, and edicts, all the world over, for regulating commerce, an assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.
 * Benjamin Franklin, letter to Benjamin Vaughan, July 26, 1784; in Albert H. Smyth, ed., The Writings of Benjamin Franklin (1906), vol. 9, p. 241.

 * A wise man changes his mind sometimes, but a fool never. To change your mind is the best evidence you have one. The last redoubt holding out for me was the year-day principle (on which I had written a defense in 1972 for the Southern Publishing Association Daniel volume which was published in 1978). This collapsed when I handled hundreds of books of commentary on Revelation in the Library of Congress stacks and found that the respective authors had in many cases suggested dates that seemed appropriate for their own time but ridiculous later. It became clear that we, as Adventists, had done the same as our predecessors.
 * Desmond Ford Desmond Ford on His Previous Defense of the Year Day Principle", Adventist Today, 2006

 * It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
 * Neil Gaiman, Dream Country.

 * The world is filled with fools, but none of them considers himself one, or tries not to be one.
 * Baltasar Gracián, in Maxim 202, The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647).

 * Hope maketh fol man ofte blenkes.
 * Hope often tricks a fool.
 * Havelok the Dane (circa 1280), Line 307.

 * There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."
 * William Ralph Inge, More Lay Thoughts of a Dean, p. 200 (1931).

 * The foolish have us far more in their power than the wise.
 * Jean Ingelow, Sarah de Berenger: A Novel (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879), Chapter XI, p. 132.

 * There can be little doubt that it is the fools, and not the wise, who govern the world. While the wise are considering, the fools act; while the wise investigate, the fools have made up their minds; by the time the wise have discovered, the fools have made arrangements, and the wise, for the sake of law and order, or, if not, for the sake of peace and quietness, are obliged to give way.
 * Jean Ingelow, Sarah de Berenger: A Novel (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879), Chapter XXXV, p. 395.

 * If people keep opposing you when you are right, you think them fools; and after a time, right or wrong, you think them fools simply because they oppose you.
 * Randall Jarrell, “Poets: Old, New, and Aging”, p. 44, Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980).

 * All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than the ones with crowns.
 * George R.R. Martin,, in A Storm of Swords, Chapter Sansa (I)

 * The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
 * George R.R. Martin,, in A Storm of Swords, Chapter Tyrion (III)

 * You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.
 * Jesus, New Testament, Matthew 5:22, New International Version.

 * What a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
 * Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Doobie Brothers, What a fool believes (1978).

 * A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
 * H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949).

 * Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast’s pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
 * John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, Ch. 2 (1861).

 * "The guy goes into the hospital, okay? His wife's just had a baby and he can't wait to see them both. So he meets the doctor and he says, 'Oh, Doc, I've been so worried. How are they?' And the doctor smiles and says, 'They're fine. Just fine. Your wife's delivered a healthy baby boy and they're both in tip-top form. You're one lucky guy.' So the guy rushes into the maternity ward with his flowers. But it's empty. His wife's bed is empty. 'Doc?' He says and turns around and the doctor and all the nurses wave their arms and scream in his face. 'April fools! Your wife's dead and the baby's a spastic!!'" (he executes an asylum orderly with a gunshot to the head) "Get it? Oh what a senseless waste of human life!"
 * Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth' (1989) ''by Grant Morrison

 * There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.
 * Swami Narayanananda, Revelation, No. 190, p. 168 (2001, 1st ed. 1951).

 * I have great faith in fools — self-confidence my friends will call it.
 * Edgar Allen Poe, Marginalia (November 1844).

 * Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.
 * Alexander Pope in "An Essay on Criticism" (1711).

 * For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
 * Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, published in Swift's Miscellanies (1727).

 * Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples.
 * Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, published in Swift's Miscellanies (1727).

 * No creature smarts so little as a fool.
 * Alexander Pope, }]. Prologue to [[Imitations of Horace, Line 84 (1734).

 * The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
 * Proverbs 1:7, (King James Version)

 * A discerning man keeps wisdom in view, but a fool's eyes wander to the ends of the earth.
 * Proverbs 17:24, (New International Version)

 * Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.
 * Proverbs 17:28, (New International Version)

 * Il y a des gens niais qui se connaissent, et qui emploient habilement leur niaiserie.
 * There are foolish people who know and who skillfully use their folly.
 * François de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1665–1678), No. 208. Translation: J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell (1871).
 * Variant: There are foolish people who recognize their foolishness and use it skillfully.

 * Il n'y a point de sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit.
 * No fools so wearisome as those who have some wit.
 * François de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1665–1678), No. 451. Translation: J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell (1871).
 * Variant: No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

 * Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool - and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool. I can see too that often I changed from being one kind of fool into another kind fo fool I was happy about it because I didn't know what had happened.
 * Carl Sandburg, Ever the Winds of Chance (1983)

 * No Man is so much a Fool as not to have Wit enough sometimes to be a Knave ; nor any so cunning a Knave, as not to have the Weakness sometimes to play the Fool.
 * George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections, "Moral Thoughts and Reflections" (1750).

 * The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
 * William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act v. Sc. 1 (1599 or 1600).

 * How does the fool build his paradise?—out of the crumbling bricks of illusion and the watery cement of hope.
 * Robert Sheckley, The Game of X (1965), p. 128

 * Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi to Han Solo, in Star Wars.

 * A young man sees a terribly venomous snake in his small village. Nervous, he watches the snake carefully until it leaves.The young man follows the snake into the forest. He clears the branches out of its path and helps it over obstacles. He even works to keep it fed. Many nights pass and still the young man continues to follow the snake. He even follows it into the sands of the great desert. In the desert, the snake eventually grows hungry. It turns and bites the young man, its poison quickly working its way into his system. Finally curious, the snake looks at the boy as he lays dying and asks, "Why were you foolish enough to follow me all the way out into the desert?" The boy looks back and replies, "Did I follow you? I thought I was leading you away from everyone else..." And then he died.
 * Jolee Bindo to Revan, in Star Wars, Knights of the Old Republic.

 * 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
 * Jonathan Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa (1713).

 * When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool.
 * Sydney Smith, Peter Plymley's Letters (1808), Letter IV.

 * Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.
 * Translation: Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
 * Publius Syrus, Maxim 914.

 * To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
 * Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010) Preludes, p.4.

 * Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
 * Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010) Preludes, p.5.

 * We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.
 * Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010) Being a Philosopher and Managing to Remain One, p. 85.

 * Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
 * Henry David Thoreau, Journal entry (3 February 1860).

 * Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, and the angels are all in heaven, but few of the fools are dead.
 * James Thurber, Further Fables For Our Time", p. 14.

 * Now and then there's a fool such as I am over you You taught me how to love And now you say that we are through I'm a fool, but I'll love you dear Until the day I die Now and then there's a fool such as I.
 * Bill Trader, in the lyrics for "(Now & Then There's) A Fool Such as I".

 * The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
 * Mark Twain, as quoted in Deduction : Introductory Symbolic Logic (2002) by Daniel A. Bonevac, p. 56.

 * The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcilable foes to truth.
 * George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, in "Letter to Mr. Clifford, on his Human Reason"; also in The Works of His Grace, George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham (London: T. Evans, 1770) vol. 2, p. 105.

 * The best way in which to silence any friend of yours whom you know to be a fool is to induce him to hire a hall. Nothing chills pretense like exposure.
 * Woodrow Wilson, remarks to the Motion Picture Board of Trade, New York City (January 27, 1916); in Arthur S. Link, ed., The Papers of Woodrow Wilson (1981), vol. 36, p. 17.

 * I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. It cannot be so easily discovered if you allow him to remain silent and look wise, but if you let him speak, the secret is out and the world knows that he is a fool.
 * Woodrow Wilson, “That Quick Comradeship of Letters,” address at the Institute of France, Paris, May 10, 1919. — The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, ed. Ray Stannard Baker and William E. Dodd, vol. 5, p. 484 (1927).

A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
 * Be wise with speed;
 * Edward Young, Love of Fame (1728), Satire II, line 281.

 * At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
 * Edward Young, Night Thoughts, 1, lines 417–418 (1742).

 * Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
 * Anonymous Yiddish Proverb, as quoted in Quotable Quotes (1997) by the Editors of Reader's Digest

 * Face a bear robbed of her cubs,
 * but never fools in their folly!
 * Proverbs 17:12

 * Of what use is money in the hands of fools
 * when they have no heart to acquire wisdom?
 * Proverbs 17:16

 * As dogs return to their vomit,
 * so fools repeat their folly.
 * Proverbs 26:11

 * The fool is garrulous.
 * Sumerian proverb, Collection III at,.

 * He who knows but does not speak is a fool.
 * Sumerian proverb, Collection IX at ,

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