Famous Quotes That You Like

[vol_cat]

"What is food to one, is to others bitter poison" Lucretius.

[Jason]

"told you i was ill " - Spike Milligans headstone

[Tom_Wescott]

The brave may die young, but the cautious don't live at all. (saw it on Survivor)

The whole world is just one big pile of sh**, so we might as well plant some flowers - Charles Manson

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

P.S. Robert, that cracked me up!

[mariab]

Ewww, Tom, a Charles Manson quote? He surely “planted flowers“.
The other quote I like.

[Tom_Wescott]

You just hate him cuz he's short.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[mariab]

That's reason enough, in my book.
I might hate him cuz I like Polanski's movies.

[Tom_Wescott]

And Folger's coffee.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[mariab]

Lost you on this.

[Tom_Wescott]

Abigail Folger was one of the Tate house victims. Heiress to the Folger's coffee fortune.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[kensei]

Steering away from Manson-

I'm not a Republican, but I think one of the most powerful quotes of the 20th century was Ronald Reagan declaring:

"Mr. Gorbachev... tear down this wall!"

[Errata]

How about the two greatest flubbed lines in American history?

"Ich bin ein Berliner" - JFK
and
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for Mankind" - Neil Armstrong

[mariab]

Abigail Folger was one of the Tate house victims. Heiress to the Folger's coffee fortune.

Right.

Agree with Kensei and Errata, and JFK pronounced it "Ick bin ein Berliner". :-)

[Limehouse]

"I may be lying in the gutter, but I'm looking at the stars".

(or something similar) Oscar Wilde

And my very favourite: George Bernard Shaw was apparently prospositioned by a famous lady of the time who pleased with him to have a baby with her.
She told him something like "with your brains, and my looks, think what a child we will have" to which he replied "but madam, supposing the child had your brains and my looks?"

[kensei]

Winston Churchill, upon being told, "You, sir, are drunk!"

"And you, madam, are ugly, but I shall be sober in the morning."

[Robert]

He also said something like, "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."