Favorite Quotes of Ken Marks

Martin    Stevens
Berra    Carlin    Rizzo
Rubin    Stranger
Bush    Fields    Gervais
Keillor    Socrates
Aristotle
Hanh    King    Shaw
Faulkner    Marple
Mandela
Cicero    Schiller
Shakespeare
Dawkins    Plato

Discovered on
The Scratching Post

By Moristotle

Ken Marks began scratching on The Scratching Post the year after he left the staff of Moristotle & Co. After we ran the opening of his latest scratching last week, I clicked on its “About Me” link.

    Ken says little there directly about himself, leaving it to the reader to infer things about him from his pastimes, languages, reading habits, and favorite movies, words, and quotes.

     A telling quote with regard to his saying little directly about himself is the one by Socrates. Ken has a strong mind, not a weak one; he discusses ideas, not people.
    Here, for you to infer more about Ken, is the whole list of favorite quotes from that “About Me” page on his Scratching Post:

“What we have here is failure to communicate.”
    (Must be spoken while 

    channeling Strother Martin.)

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly is to the bone!”
    – George “Kingfish” Stevens

“A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
    – Yogi Berra

“The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.”
    – George Carlin

“I’m walkin’ here!”
    – Ratso Rizzo
    (from Midnight Cowboy)

“The penguin is mightier than the swordfish.”
    – Leigh Rubin

“Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.”
    – The Stranger (from The Big Lebowski)

“Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.”
    – George W. Bush

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.”
    – W.C. Fields

“You don’t believe in 2,999 gods, and I don’t believe in just one more.”
    – Ricky Gervais to Stephen Colbert

“Anyone who thinks sitting in a church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    – Garrison Keillor

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
    – Socrates

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
    – Aristotle

“We tend to think in terms of doing, not in terms of being. We think we are wasting our time when we do nothing. But that is untrue. Our time is first of all for us to be. To be what? To be alive, to be peaceful, to be joyful, to be loving.”
    – Thich Nhat Hanh (edited)

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
    – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    – George Bernard Shaw

“The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.”
    – William Faulkner

“You can’t make someone see clarity when they find comfort within their fog.”
    – Meredith Marple

“Our world is not divided by race, color, gender, or religion. Our world is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, color, gender, or religion.”
    – Nelson Mandela

“To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.”
    – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.”
    – Friedrich Schiller

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”
    – William Shakespeare

“Science is the poetry of reality.”
    – Richard Dawkins

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
    – Plato

Moristotle is grateful for Ken Marks