Puddleglum's Quotes

#1. Got to start by finding it, have we?" answered Puddleglum. " Not allowed to start by looking for it, I suppose?

C.S. Lewis

#2. Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

Karl Schroeder

#3. The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

Thomas Francis Meagher

#4. The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. And you must always remember there's one good thing about being trapped down here: it'll save funeral expenses.

C.S. Lewis

#6. Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

Dave Barry

#7. I love you but you were a boring mother fucker until Mister-Pussy-Eating-Like-a-Boss, Hot-as-Hell, Sex-on-a-Stick came into your life.

Kathryn Perez

#8. If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve ... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads.

Henry Rollins

#9. Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

C.S. Lewis

#10. It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.

Daniel Dennett

#11. Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.

C.S. Lewis

#12. The bright side of it is," said Puddleglum, "that if we break our necks getting down the cliff, then we're safe from being drowned in the river.

C.S. Lewis

#13. Doing good makes you great. Bad things take away from good ones. Practicing Netiquette is all good.

David Chiles

#14. The only good human being is a dead one.

George Orwell

#15. Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?

C.S. Lewis

#16. People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

John Wanamaker

#17. Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this.

C.S. Lewis

#18. Puddleglum!" said Jill. "You're a regular old humbug. You sound as doleful as a funeral and I believe you're perfectly happy. And you talk as if you were afraid of everything, when you're really as brave as - as a lion.

C.S. Lewis

#19. Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

C.S. Lewis

#20. Self-Test. Click here to download a PDF of this Self-Test.

David J. Axelrod

#21. In the timeless and universal manner of authors conversing in public places, he did not fail to mention its title, Volume III of Principia Mathematica entitled, The System of the World, available shortly, where books are sold.

Neal Stephenson

#22. Don't fucking leave me. Don't break my heart.

T.A. Webb