Famous Quotes That You Like

[Robert]

(While being beaten up) "I appear to have offended you gentlemen." (Quentin Crisp)

"...lovely sky, high enough for me to stand up" (Spike Milligan)

[K-453]

@ Rubyretro: me.


A wife is a good excuse to leave a mistress.

Don't bite the hand that hits you.

Some people are listened to before they say anything.

Intelligence, cleverness and wisdom:
Intelligence helps you to obtain cigarettes.
Cleverness helps you to justify smoking.
Wisdom keeps you from smoking.

[Rubyretro]

[QUOTE]

"Je boirai du lait quand les vaches mangeront du raisin"[/QUOTE

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Je boirai du lait quand les vaches auront raison.

[DVV]

"Je boirai du lait quand les vaches mangeront du raisin"

[Rubyretro]

Simple minds have opinions. Complicated ones have doubts.

I love it. Who originally made the comment ?

[K-453]

Simple minds have opinions. Complicated ones have doubts.

[Robert]

"You've had too much to think." (Captain Beefheart)

[Rubyretro]

"you think too much ! -that's because there's work that you don't want to do..."

Lou Reed quoting Andy Warhol on 'Songs for Drella'

[DVV]

"I've never told the truth so I can never tell a lie" - Tom Waits

[Mayerling]

"You're bloody impatient - who's getting hanged here today?!"
Charles Peace, 1879 - He had been using the privy, and had seemed to be taking too long.

"After you Monsieur Alphonse!
No after you Monsieur Gaston!"
From an early 20th Century comic strip.

"Notary sojac."
One of several odd comments that popped up in the comic strip SMOKY STOVER again and again. Another one was the word "Foo".

"We have met the enemy and they is us!"
From Walt Kelly's POGO in the early 1950s (during the McCarthy period).

"I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself."
Mark Twain.

"He thought it a crow, but it turned out to be
A monk of Saint Benedict's croaking a text.
"He's one of an order of cooks," said he,
"Black friars in this world, fried blanck in the next!!""
"The Devil on Earth, 1712"
Actually the great Ambrose Bierce, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY, under the definition of "Benedictines".

Heckler: "I would vote for the Devil rather than you!'
Disraeli: "I see. Then I can count on your support if your friend does not run?"

General John Pope - Union General in the Civil War - liked to sign his orders,
"General Pope, headquarters in the saddle!" Lincoln looking at this and judging at the mess of Pope's total defeat at Second Manassas/Second Bull Run at the hands of Lee and Jackson said, "That's the problem, Pope's headquarters are where his hindquarters should be!"

Jeff

[c.d.]

He took her down
to Chinatown
and showed her how to kick
the gong around

c.d.

[c.d.]

"Only the shallow know themselves"

Oscar Wilde

c.d.

[Mayerling]

General Sherman (whose brother John was a prominent Senator from Ohio and Cabinet member and Presidential possibility) was frequently hounded to run for President like his pal Ulysses Grant had - and gave this superb denuncation in 1884:
"I'd be a fool, an ass, to start a political career at my time of life. If nominated I will not run; if elected I will not serve!"

[If only others thought that way!]

"Will it hurt?"
James Canham Read in 1894, when taken to the gallows to be hanged.

"What is an iceberg made of?"
Senator William Alden Smith to Fourth Officer Boxhall of the Titanic at the American hearings into the disaster in 1912. Boxhall, looking surprised for a moment, said "Ice!"

"You mound of turds stuffed in a silk stocking!!"
Emperor Napoleon I telling off his Foreign Secretary Prince Talleyrand in 1811. Talleyrand supposedly replied, after the Emperor left the room, "What a bad mannered man!"

"It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder!!"
Joseph Fouche remarking about the illegal trial and execution of the Duc de Enghien by order of Napoleon I in 1804. Fouche was right - horror at the political crime strengthened anti-Bonaparte feeling in Euope.

"No matter however you slice it, it is still baloney!"
Governor Al Smith of New York.

"I'm not Christ: I can't raise the dead!"
FDR in 1941 when creating his coallition cabinet to fight World War II as a unifier of the country. Someone suggested ex-President Hoover as Secretary of Commerce again, and this led to Roosevelt's remark about his unpopular predecessor.

"As a child I remember going to the circus and seeing the freakshows. And they are now here. Behold the "boneless wonder"!!"
Winston Churchill on the opposition bench in 1930 referring to a glaring Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.

"A modest man, with much to be modest about!"
Churchill again, now referring to Labor Party leader Clement Atlee (who later defeated and replaced Churchill as Prime Minister).

Jeff

[Archaic]

“The past isn't dead. It isn't even past.” (William Faulkner)


Damn, I wish I'd said that!
Archaic

[Errata]

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. - Mae West

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great. - Cher