Top 200 Stewart Stafford Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “The hand that pockets the corrupt coin places it in the collection plate seeking absolution.”

— Stewart Stafford

202. “The moment you think you can get in the ring with the heavyweight champion of the world and bluff your way through the fight is about the same time you see your bloody teeth on the canvas and wonder how they got there. Remember the five P’s – ‘Prior preparation prevents poor performance!”

— Stewart Stafford

203. “Fortunately, most of our vital physiological functions are involuntary, as some amongst us would forget them.”

— Stewart Stafford

204. “Enemies are either defeated, befriended or bypassed.”

— Stewart Stafford

205. “2020 is the year that black people became the center of the universe, white people got evicted from the human race, and buying toilet paper became the new gold rush.”

— Stewart Stafford

206. “Whether we live for seconds or a hundred years, none of us goes before our time. We’re all here to do something, and once we’ve done it, we go back from whence we came.”

— Stewart Stafford

207. “Why did Irish people vote to introduce gay marriage? Because we know what discrimination feels like and if we can take the boot of oppression off someone else’s throat, we’ll do it every time.”

— Stewart Stafford

208. “Space is often compared to our oceans. Throw a stone at the water and the density smothers its propulsion. Skim the stone across the surface and the propulsion is mostly preserved with minimal drag. This kind of approach could work for NASA’s mission to Mars.”

— Stewart Stafford

209. “Strive to leave a legacy beyond your limitations and far beyond the expectations of others.”

— Stewart Stafford

210. “The coronavirus outbreak feels like an episode of The Twilight Zone. I went to see a doctor the other day, and they told me to wear a face mask. Then they said how much it would cost to see the doctor and I told them THEY were the ones who should be wearing masks!”

— Stewart Stafford

211. “I guess everyone gets more attractive as your eyesight decreases with age. That’s something to look forward to until you can’t see anymore.”

— Stewart Stafford

212. “Lies are a vacation from the self.”

— Stewart Stafford

213. “You could fill three lifetimes with the things people say about you when you’re not there.”

— Stewart Stafford

214. “The snowflake revolution will not be televised – it will be pirated online, go viral and rapidly dissipate in the quicksand of post-millennial conformity.”

— Stewart Stafford

215. “There are moments when disappointment comes to seek your soul as musicians do with notes, and the more these are wide and deep, the more a single word or gesture is enough to make music resonate within you that you would never want to hear.”

— Stewart Stafford

216. “You don’t get great art by playing it safe.”

— Stewart Stafford

217. “Martyrdom, the fanaticism of being willing to die for one’s beliefs, is the essential ingredient in making others want to follow the code left behind by that sacrificial example.”

— Stewart Stafford

218. “In times of oppression, bury the quality of mercy deep inside, so that your oppressor’s brutality can never damage it or you. Once free, bring this hidden shard of humanity back into your heart again and live the life denied to you.”

— Stewart Stafford

219. “People will hunt obsessively for months or even years to find the right home to live in. When it comes to love though, they expect their future soulmate to appear out of thin air as they enter the next bar or club they go to.”

— Stewart Stafford

220. “The day for words of love becomes the night of amorous actions that say far more! The world shifts back on its axis at dawn on February 15th.”

— Stewart Stafford

221. “If an artist can occupy the void of artistry while simultaneously parodying its iconography, they can have their metaphorical cake and cannibalise its crumbs too.”

— Stewart Stafford

222. “Most people think of Stephen King as a horror author, but his best work usually comes with a side order of nostalgic Americana.”

— Stewart Stafford

223. “Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.”

— Stewart Stafford

224. “The stresses and strains of life mould us into our mature selves. The key to life is to accept the wisdom of our later years while maintaining our youthful enthusiasm and curiosity for the world.”

— Stewart Stafford

225. “True wisdom thrives in open minds; those who tune only to their own frequency become white-noise prisoners.”

— Stewart Stafford

226. “I once got hit by revolving scenery in a production of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. It whacked my hip, bruised my ego, got an unintentional laugh, but the show went on, and it still does.”

— Stewart Stafford

227. “If I decide to get a tattoo, it’ll be a map of where I live on my chest in case I ever get amnesia.”

— Stewart Stafford

228. “Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.”

— Stewart Stafford

229. “The foundation of Hollywood alchemically turned celluloid into gold and insincerity into an art form.”

— Stewart Stafford

230. “Arguing is the Olympics of talking.”

— Stewart Stafford

231. “If your written words become literal nails to crucify you with, then you have done your job well. You provoked a reaction, whether it is positive or negative is irrelevant. Writing that evokes no reaction is a body without a soul.”

— Stewart Stafford

232. “An obsessive is an addict-in-waiting.”

— Stewart Stafford

233. “Some countries believe that, once they have rid themselves of a monarchy and become a republic, they have morphed into a kind of Utopia. When, in fact, they have merely created another set of compromises for themselves.”

— Stewart Stafford

234. “Karens have a best friend – Becky. She’s the one who goes with them to talk to the manager and backs them up and remains silent when she calls the cops on black guys she sees in her area. Becky is Karen’s tag-team partner and an enabler. Don’t be a Becky.”

— Stewart Stafford