Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
“Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.”
Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984), p. 49; comparable to "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." — E. B. White, in "Some Remarks on Humor," preface to A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941)
General sources
“Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.”
Variant: "Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to."
Context: A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find someone who's forgotten words so I can have a word with him?...
“You left the Egyptians. You turned your back on the Egyptians, and they won’t forget that.”
El-Sisi to Washington Post on The United States administration. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/rare-interview-with-egyptian-gen-abdel-fatah-al-sissi/2013/08/03/a77eb37c-fbc4-11e2-a369-d1954abcb7e3_story.html
2013
“I can't go down there. They think I'm dead!
Oh, you've remembered that. Good for you.”
