I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It’s pretty cool to see.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆
    2081·
    2 years ago

    Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

    • Candelestine
      27·
      2 years ago

      Damn… that’s better that the muddy pig wrestling one and the pigeon chess one both.

        • Candelestine
          24·
          2 years ago

          “Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway.” Shannon L. Alder

          Copy/pasted from Goodreads, I’m not actually verifying.

        • Candelestine
          2·
          2 years ago

          Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw

          Also copy/pasted from Goodreads, so not guaranteeing the accuracy that Shaw originally said it. Also usually worded in a more fun way.

        • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
          1·
          2 years ago

          Can’t quite remember but it’s something like…

          Never wrestle a pig, even if you win you’re still covered in mud.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      2 years ago

      I took a long time to warm to this one. I used to think that if I could just make the right arguments people would agree with me. Eventually, I realised that even if they’re perfectly reasonable, natural language has a certain bitrate, and human memory has a certain bitrate of loss over a given timeframe. If you can’t explain your idea quickly one of you will hit it.