Wiser Words Were Never Spoken

These are collections of words that I didn't string together myself but wish that I had. I will continue to update this page as I continue to find writing that fits into this category.

Toy-like people make me boy-like.
--- Massive Attack, Mezzanine
This is such a true statement about the way that interaction can affect the way that people relate. Immature actions breed immature responses.

This life is a thump-ripe melon--so sweet and such a mess.
--- Greg Brown, Rexroth's Daughter, Covenant
I love this line because it is so visceral, it takes its meaning and hits all the senses at once.

What then do we live for, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn.
--- Mr. Bennett, Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
I love this line because it has been fundamentally true since humans noticed their neighbor as more than a means to the collective survival of the species. We are forever ready to laugh at and in turned be laughed at by those around us. People who take themselves too seriously are doomed to suffer because this will never change.

If the sun refused to shine,
I would still be loving you;
Mountains crumble to the sea,
There will still be you and me.
--- Robert Plant, Thank You, Led Zeppelin II
I love this refrain. The words are simple but so expressively placed and the sound of the word "you" is so powerful in this context. The last line rolls off the tongue, "there will still be you and me," in a way that oaths rarely do.