When I Die, Said Lawn, Inspecting The Patient, Im Going To Instruct Them To Put A Bell On My Tombstone,

“When I die,” said Lawn, inspecting the patient, “I’m going to instruct them to put a bell on my tombstone, just so’s I can have the pleasure of not getting up when people ring.”

-Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch

“That was always the dream, wasn’t it? ‘I wish I knew then what I know now?’ But when you got older, you found out that you now wasn’t you then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.”

-Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch

Favorite response to a request for a mnemonic: "Roses are red, violets are blue, the long thoracic nerve innervates the serratus anterior."

Do You believe,” the disciple asked the rabbi, “that God created everything for a purpose?

“I do,” replied the rabbi.

“Well,” asked the disciple, “why did God create atheists?”

The rabbi paused before giving an answer, and when he spoke his voice was soft and intense. “Sometimes we who believe, believe too much. We see the cruelty, the suffering, the injustice in the world and we say: ‘This is the will of God.’ We accept what we should not accept. That is when God sends us atheists to remind us that what passes for religion is not always religion. Sometimes what we accept in the name of God is what we should be fighting against in the name of God.“

Chief Rabbi Emeritus [of the United Synagogues of the British Commonwealth] Jonathan Sacks

“I took the form of a 45 year old white man for a reason; I can Only. Fail. Up.”

-The Good Place

“Show me the man you honour; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are.”

— Thomas Carlyle, “Hudson’s Statue”, Latter-Day Pamphlets