From this video by Indy Neidel – here is a saying started by the Finns in the Finnish – Soviet War of 1939

They are so many, and our county so small

Where shall we find room to bury them all?

I’m just coming off of my latest obsession – and here is Tyler Cowen’s post on the topic.

(Discussing his sort of retirement from music, written from memory)

I’ve always lived by the principle that if you’ve seen Cincinnati you don’t need to see Cleveland

Meaning that if something is no longer fun, then stop.

From this interview

There are crumbs of everything inside us – all you have to do is be antiquated with yourself and you will know the whole world.

From this column

That was the basic cultural theory of America: that our Anglo-Protestant forebears were so deep-dipped in the Protestant work ethic — and so constantly mindful that they might be called before their Maker at any moment to make an accounting of their lives — that they didn’t need a king bossing them around. They bossed themselves around, like enlightened people do — that’s classical liberalism in a nutshell.

From the Great War on YouTube

Peace is within sight, but not within reach

From Tom Lehrer

Like many contemporary philosophers he enjoyed giving advice to people happier than he was

From the same song by Dan Bern

This song was made by algorithms for you and your peers – please like it – it’s called the future is here

and (somewhere in the song, refering to global warming)

Isn’t it ironic that we’re going to be killed by dinosaurs after all

The desire to teach is much stronger than the desire to learn

I’m not sure where I heard it, and it is probably a bit more apt if you substitute “lecture” instead of “teach”.