Obnoxiously difficult quotes

[montyb]

"Sudden acquaintance brings repentance."
— Thomas Fuller

This one’s a killer!

[hrossa]

"Jealousy is love's bed of burning snarl."
--George Meredith

[montyb]

"Many foxes grow gray but few grow good. "
— Benjamin Franklin

[montyb]

"Virtue can only flourish among equals."
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

AAAARRRRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[montyb]

"Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. "
— Publilius Syrus

With emphasis on the pain of mind!

[Eureka]

"Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. "

— Proverb

[Toeprint]

"Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet."

— Ben Jonson

Apes are apes.jpg

[montyb]

"Sociological critics are waste makers."
— Andy Warhol

I had a difficult time believing Andy Warhol would use the word “sociological”.

[RedEnoch]

Bergeboon, I hope you were commenting on the pleasure of solving "obnoxiously difficult" quotes. Any quote starting with "The great" AND containing BOTH "people" and "cannot" is easy enough to get ME into the green. Most of the time.

MY MA ONLY MY MA.
--Midwestern Proverb

[bergeboonp60]

Walter Bagehot

"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

[Eureka]

It took me 25 minutes!

[gavinl]

i got that one yesterday too! It took me about 20 minutes.

[Eureka]

"Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check?"

— Unattributed

[Eureka]

"Love thy neighbor but keep your fence. "

— Unattributed

Both "thy" and "your" in one sentence. Ouch.

[mistyswiss]

"Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell. "
— John Milton

If you try to solve a crypto in Hell, it will certainly be a John Milton quote.