Top 32 Bokonon Quotes

#1. SOMETIMES THE POOL-PAH," Bokonon tells us, "exceeds the power of humans to comment." Bokonon translates pool-pah at one point in The Books of Bokonon as "shit storm" and at another point as "wrath of God.

Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes #4740
#2. Live by the foma(Harmless untruths) that make you brave
and kind and healthy and happy.

Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes #104461
#3. My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'

Johnny Vegas

Bokonon Quotes #173723
#4. The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's."
Bokonon's paraphrase was this:
"Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes #198856
#5. When I saw him I thought I could curl up inside him and go to sleep and never wake up." "Men are no good for that, Masha. They'll always want you working, when you're not softening their fall into bed at the end of the day.

Catherynne M Valente

Bokonon Quotes #209228
#6. Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.

Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes #484219
#7. Live by the foma1 that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. The Books of Bokonon. I: 5

Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes #513979
#8. If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.

Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes #574737
#9. Maturity, Bokonon tells us, is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists

Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes #612382
#10. As Bokonon says: 'peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god.

Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes #734424
#11. I thought this was trash.
Of course it's trash! says Bokonon.

Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes #738400
#12. Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.

Nelson Mandela

Bokonon Quotes #765851
#13. I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

William Blake

Bokonon Quotes #788899
#14. People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.

Chris Weitz

Bokonon Quotes #825345
#15. FedDev Ontario's investment in the Glanworth Branch Library has enhanced this unique landmark into an accessible learning hub for local community members. When we improve facilities, we are strengthening our communities and building a prosperous southern Ontario.

Gary Goodyear

Bokonon Quotes #882414
#16. And what opinion did Bokonon hold of his own cosmogony?
"Foma! Lies!" he wrote. "A pack of foma!

Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes #882862
#17. IF YOU FIND YOUR LIFE tangled up with somebody else's life for no very logical reasons," writes Bokonon, "that person may be a member of your karass." At

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Bokonon Quotes #929421
#18. If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

W. Clement Stone

Bokonon Quotes #977913
#19. She had nothing against any of the other guests, but once she started she saw no way to stop. There was nothing to do but turn the hose against every arriving guest. No one coming out of the house to reason with her was safe either.

Katherine Paterson

Bokonon Quotes #1175197
#20. The tricky thing about fear is: It wears a different mask every day.

L. Duarte

Bokonon Quotes #1176857
#21. When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn't just join a local church because it's a good habit for growing in spiritual maturity. He joins a local church because it's the expression of what Christ has made him - a member of the body of Christ.

Mark Dever

Bokonon Quotes #1209185
#22. He was also the only adult male in my life who I'd never so much as flirted with, which gave him a special place in my heart. And made me a bit hesitant to be alone with him. Old habits are hard to break.

Nicole Castle

Bokonon Quotes #1209753
#23. Write it all down," Bokonon tells us.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Bokonon Quotes #1376947
#24. Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end,
And our God will take things back that He to us did lend.
And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God,
Why just go ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod.

Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes #1433441
#25. What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

John Mellencamp

Bokonon Quotes #1437846
#26. History!" writes Bokonon. "Read it and weep!

Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes #1498491
#27. All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes #1627744
#28. Freedom to be your best means nothing unless you are wiling to do your best.

Colin Powell

Bokonon Quotes #1691215
#29. She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes #1744558
#30. Oh, a very sorry people, yes,
Did I find here.
Oh, they had no music,
And they had no beer.
And, oh, everywhere
Where they tried to perch
Belonged to Castle Sugar, Incorporated,
Or the Catholic church.

Kurt Vonnegut

Bokonon Quotes #1801696
#31. To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao-Tzu

Richard Koch

Bokonon Quotes #1825286
#32. I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

Craig Newmark

Bokonon Quotes #1866633

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