BS: Obscure quotations

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 10 Oct 15 - 02:04 PM

It seems quite odd, IMO, that you claim I have "a problem", MGM-Lion? I claim no such affliction related to this quote.

Yes, it is indeed helpful (to some) to correctly identify a error in a quote source. However, replacing it with another potential source error seems, IMO, to add little value. Not recognizing such a plight is puzzling to me? However, I recognize it may not be so from your perspective?

If you have new information on the quote source, it would be worthy to share. If not, I see little purpose in continuing in a pointless direction.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 10 Oct 15 - 02:30 PM

"the replacement of one inaccurate source by another"
.,,.
But it was you doing that, wasn't it? -- with your suggestion of Artemus Ward rather than Lincoln.

I fear you have now completely lost me.

However it is time to go and watch Wales play Bosnia-Herzegovina on Sky Sports.

So adieu.

☺〠☺~M~☺〠☺

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 10 Oct 15 - 03:31 PM

I fear you have now completely lost me."


That clearly makes two of us. What seems reasinablevto on, may just seem idx to another. A good reason to part courses on this one, versus engage in pointless BS argument/counter arguments.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 10 Oct 15 - 03:35 PM

Oops, sent prematurely: What seems reasinable to one, may just seem odd to another.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 10 Oct 15 - 03:37 PM

Damn: reasonable, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Mrrzy
Date: 10 Oct 15 - 07:18 PM

"Strike a light or light a lantern! Something I have hold of has no head."

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 10 Oct 15 - 08:40 PM

""Careful, Mr. Spiro, guns are dangerous. Especially the end with the hole.""
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 11 Oct 15 - 10:19 AM

As to the attribution and counter-attribution and counter-counter-attribution of the "that's the kind" quote, it just goes to show that that thought, however phrased, has long become part of the culture
through the folk process.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 11 Oct 15 - 10:30 AM

""If you put the "rich" in ostrich, I'll put in the "ost.""
― Jarod Kintz, 

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 11 Oct 15 - 11:57 AM

""Speeding is no advantage round a vicious circle"
Marty Rubin

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 11 Oct 15 - 12:04 PM

""Ideas stand in the corner and laughs while we fight over them"
Marty Rubin

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 11 Oct 15 - 12:13 PM

""Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out.""
― Marty Rubin

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 17 Oct 15 - 09:54 AM

"What would men be without women?

"Very scarce, sir . . . very scarce."
    --Mark Twain

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 17 Oct 15 - 06:14 PM

Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.
        --Abraham Lincoln

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 18 Oct 15 - 04:35 PM

""But remember what I said about forgetting what I said?""
― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 23 Oct 15 - 03:19 PM

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary.
        --Oscar Wilde

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Oct 15 - 05:09 PM

"I have outlived my pecker." - Willie Nelson

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 24 Oct 15 - 09:29 AM

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people
attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
        --George Bernard Shaw

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Oct 15 - 12:39 PM

"The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it."

Terry Pratchett

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Oct 15 - 12:50 PM

"The secret to effective online research isn't locating someone with the answer, but filtering out the masses of people who think they have the answer."

Paul Lutus

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Oct 15 - 12:54 PM

"When people call at midnight and threaten you with death, you realize you're making a difference."

Paul Lutus

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 24 Oct 15 - 04:57 PM

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
           --Derek Bok

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 24 Oct 15 - 05:28 PM

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

(Sign hanging in Albert Einstein's Princeton U. office.)

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 25 Oct 15 - 03:05 AM

"A paradox, a paradox, a most ingenious paradox..."

W S Gilbert, The Pirates of Penzance

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Mr Red
Date: 25 Oct 15 - 05:03 AM

"The secret to effective online research isn't locating someone with the answer, but filtering out the masses of people who think they have the answer."
is also:
what Rumsfeld called "Unknown knowns" etc
When I say "Knowledge knows what it knows, intelligence knows when it doesn't"
& One clever 'Catter summarized with "the arrogance of ignorance"

sometime less is more, and more effective.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 25 Oct 15 - 06:38 AM

Becoming impotent is like being unchained from a lunatic -- George Melly

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 26 Oct 15 - 09:56 AM

A majority of the dwellers of Hell will be women who curse too much and
are ungrateful to their spouses.
        --Muhammad Imran, Ideal Women in Islam

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 26 Oct 15 - 12:44 PM

""Remember, you may have to grow old, but you don't have to mature.""
Red Green

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 26 Oct 15 - 12:55 PM

""Some men look at a problem like this and try to find a solution. I prefer to figure out whose fault it is and let them take care of it."" Red Green

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Mr Red
Date: 27 Oct 15 - 07:34 AM

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 27 Oct 15 - 08:24 AM

"Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint." 
― Markus Herz

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 27 Oct 15 - 01:22 PM

Why has nobody yet quoted the very apposite remark of Dorothy L Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey?:--
"Always a quotation for everything. It saves original thinking."

≈M≈

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 27 Oct 15 - 05:00 PM

""Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.""
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 28 Oct 15 - 06:03 AM

"You think you won't but you will." Truculent barrister in Shaw's 'You Never Can Tell -- repeated, and varied as e.g "You think it isn't but it is" &c. Useful for deployment in Mudcat threads...!

≈M≈

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 28 Oct 15 - 06:06 AM

"You can't come in here saying you want to know, you know."

"But I do want to know, you know."

Exchange between Mr Tite Barnacle & Arthur Clennam in Dickens' Little Dorrit

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: GUEST,Sol
Date: 28 Oct 15 - 08:15 AM

Talking to the famous footballer Kenny Dalglish, a radio interviewer said "I suppose you'll take a lot of secrets to your grave, Kenny"
Dalglish replied, "You'll never know".

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Oct 15 - 08:26 AM

"History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant." 
― Idries Shah, Reflections

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Oct 15 - 08:29 AM

"Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information." 
― Idries Shah, Reflections

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: PHJim
Date: 29 Oct 15 - 12:30 AM

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"

- credited to (and probably said by) Dorothy Parker, W.C.Fields, Steve Allen, Fred Allen, Tom Waits and several other folks.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: PHJim
Date: 29 Oct 15 - 12:31 AM

But I believe Steve Allen said, "I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy."

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Oct 15 - 03:08 AM

Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.-- Soupy Sales

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.-- Solomon Short

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 29 Oct 15 - 07:41 AM

"Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?" 
― Shannon L. Alder

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Ed T
Date: 29 Oct 15 - 07:48 AM

"There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it." 
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Oct 15 - 06:08 PM

"Don't look back...somthin' may be gainin' on you."
          Satchel Paige

"Don't do too good of a job, folks will begin to expect it"
                Talkin' John, an old carpenter

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Oct 15 - 08:44 PM

"Well, it's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in."--LBJ on J. Edgar Hoover

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: GUEST,salve
Date: 29 Oct 15 - 11:17 PM

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.-- Sloan Wilson

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 30 Oct 15 - 05:17 AM

Bill D's above above about not looking back reminds me of that wonderful stanza from Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner [one of the most quoted and quotable of poems} --

Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows, a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.

Brrrrr!

≈M≈

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Mr Red
Date: 30 Oct 15 - 07:56 AM

call me a pedant BUT:

The Ancient Mariner [one of the most quoted and quotable of poems} --
is it not "the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner"?

And just for the sake of more pedantry
"Water, water everywhere and all the boards did shrink.
Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink"

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 30 Oct 15 - 09:41 AM

It is actually "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" according to Wikipedia.

But, then, we don't often refer in full to "The Tragedie of Macbeth King of Scotland" either, do we?

≈M≈

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure quotations
From: Mr Red
Date: 30 Oct 15 - 10:00 AM

OK, OK it is an eye rhyme!

Technology is anything invented after you are born. Alan Kay
Technology is anything that doesn't work yet. Danny Hillis