Quotes From The Book of Memes
Collated and Conflated By Gary Corseri
28 April, 2013
Countercurrents.org
1. “Pride goeth before the meme.”--from the revised Book of Proverbs
2. “I never met a meme I didn't like.”--Will Rogers (sort of...)
3. “They hate us for our memes!”—George W. Bush (as above…)
4. “Give me liberty, or give me memes!”—Patrick Henry
5. “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this meme!”—Ronald Reagan
6. “We hold these memes to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of memes.”--Thomas Jefferson (unpublished draft of the Declaration of Independence)
7. “ I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-memed.”-- F.D.R.
8. “It depends on what the meaning of ‘is' is.”--Bill Clinton (really!)
9. “All you need is memes! [da-da! Dadada!]. All you need is memes [Da-da! Dadada!]. All you need is memes, memes… memes is all you need!”-- John Lennon
10. “You have nothing to lose but your memes!” –Karl Marx
11. “To meme, or not to meme. That is the question.”--from Hamlet (the lost folio)
12. “Two memes diverged in a yellow wood.”--Robert Frost
13. “E=MemesC2”—Albert Einstein
14. “A little learning is a dang'rous meme”—Alexander Pope
15. “Whose memes these are, I think I know/His house is in the village, though.”—Robert Frost
16. “The meme comes on little cat feet.”—Carl Sandburg
17. “No sooner met, but they looked; no sooner looked, but they memed.”-- from As You Like It (the lost folio)
18. “He who memes last, memes best”--folk saying
19. “Fools rush in where angels fear to meme.”--Alexander Pope
20. “A fool and his meme are soon parted.”—folk saying
21. “Meme, be not proud, though some have called thee/Mighty and dreadful.”—John Donne
22. “You're either with us… or you're with the memes!” –George W. Bush
23. “A meme is a meme is a meme”—Gertrude Stein.
24. “Resilience!” (MSM/gov't meme, post-Boston Marathon bombing!)
25. “I never saw a meme; I never saw the sea”—Emily Dickinson
26. “…government of the memes, by the memes and for the memes”—Abraham Lincoln (lost draft of the Gettysberg Address)
27. “Meme in my ear, and I'll follow you anywhere.”--first girlfriend.
28. “Kiss my meme!”--second girlfriend.
29. “The meme that refreshes.”--Ad campaign
30. “Meme it my way.”--Ad campaign
31. “Thou shalt not meme!”--11 th commandment (lost)
32. “Big Brother is meming you!”--George Orwell
33. “Memes are the root of all evil”--from the (slightly revised) Bible.
34. “A thousand memes of light."--Peggy Noonan (disguised as George H. W. Bush)
35. "N o one knows ish about ish, though some ish does get much closer to the real ish.”—Linh Dinh
Gary Corseri has posted/published his work at hundreds of websites and publications worldwide. His books include novels and poetry collections. His dramas have been produced on Atlanta-PBS and elsewhere, and he has performed his work at the Carter Presidential Library and Museum. He can be contacted at [email protected] .
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