WORD ASSOCIATION
QUOTATIONS

Here’s a game our resident quote monkey made up to keep himself amused: He started with a quotation about a bathroom, and then found another quote based on something from the end of that quote, and so on, and so on, until he found his way back to the bathroom. Let’s see how many quotes it took him!

“Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.”

—King George V

“Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.”

—Voltaire

“The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.”

—Douglas Adams

“Analysis does not transform consciousness.”

—Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.”

—Aldous Huxley

“ ‘Movement is life’; and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.”

—Jules Verne

“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”

—Confucius

“Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.”

—Steve Maraboli

“Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.”

—Ivan Turgenev

“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”

—Buddha

Estimate: In the U.S., 1 million dogs are listed as the primary beneficiary in their owners’ wills.

“Pent-up anger is oftentimes more destructive than a good quarrel.”

—Kilroy J. Oldster

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

—William Butler Yeats

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”

—W. H. Auden

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”

—Thich Nhat Hanh

“All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control.”

—Katie Kacvinsky

“The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government.”

—Tom Clancy

“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”

—Ronald Reagan

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

—Martin Luther King Jr.

“Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space.”

—Jeanette Winterson

“I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.”

—E. B. White

“The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.”

—Benjamin Franklin

“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”

—Napoleon Bonaparte

“Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life.”

—Deepak Chopra

“Life is like a movie—since there aren’t any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.”

—Garry Trudeau

The U.S. Congress recognizes Colon, Michigan, as the “magic capital of the world.”