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What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It's pretty cool to see.

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[โ€“] j4k3@lemmy.world 189 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

[โ€“] Candelestine@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Damn... that's better that the muddy pig wrestling one and the pigeon chess one both.

[โ€“] rDrDr@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Can't argue with that

[โ€“] TheNightBird@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the pigeon one

[โ€“] Candelestine@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

"Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway." Shannon L. Alder

Copy/pasted from Goodreads, I'm not actually verifying.

[โ€“] sociablefish@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Whats the muddy pig wrestling one

[โ€“] Candelestine@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw

Also copy/pasted from Goodreads, so not guaranteeing the accuracy that Shaw originally said it. Also usually worded in a more fun way.

[โ€“] deadbeef79000 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can't quite remember but it's something like...

Never wrestle a pig, even if you win you're still covered in mud.

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I took a long time to warm to this one. I used to think that if I could just make the right arguments people would agree with me. Eventually, I realised that even if they're perfectly reasonable, natural language has a certain bitrate, and human memory has a certain bitrate of loss over a given timeframe. If you can't explain your idea quickly one of you will hit it.