Quotes for the Fridge

I don't think we've evolved much intellectually since we got the bicameral mind. One place we have grown (I guess), is in our use of tools - things we can pass down and around.

One such tool is the simple, unassuming quote.

Monkeys Are Smrt

A good quote is like an invention with words. It can set us apart from the bees as much as any hammer, nail or nuke.

"Life is a sum of all our choices." ~Albert Camus

"The greatest crimes issue from a desire for excess and not from necessity." ~Aristotle

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit." ~W.C. Fields

"Once you label me, you negate me." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face" ~Mike Tyson

Over the years, I've been collecting quotes. I print them on magnet paper, then cut them up and put them on my fridge. Over time, this has become a kind of household collab with my daughters. About a third of the quotes are chosen by them.

In that spirit, I built a small page to make printing these magnets easy: it lays the quotes out cleanly, one per card, ready to cut and stick. Find it here.