BS: Your Favorite Quotes?

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 05:04 AM

Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.

My body is a Synagogue.

For every downhill bit there is a uphill bit twice the size. (Gnomes first law of fellwalking)

Dave the Gnome

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: John P
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 07:28 AM

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of progress? (Mark Twain)

We do not know what we do not know.

If we are going to have songs for World War III, we had better write them now.

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around. (From The Cowboy's Guide to Life)

Never trust a magazine where the articles look like advertisements and the advertisements look like articles. (Me)

No one is listening until you fart.

Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else.

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

Necessity is a real mother.


John Peekstok

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Fiolar
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 08:26 AM

"Time Passeth Away Like a Shadow." From the face of a sundial on the church at East Bergholt, Suffolk, England near where the artist John Constable was born.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 08:35 AM

"You gotta get it all to get it all to grow" --Jeff Lynne

"Shut the f*** up and play yer guitar" --Noel Gallagher

"What does it take to be a man?
What does it take to see it's all heart and soul, a gentle hand?
So easy to want, and so hard to give
How can you be a man 'til you see beyond the life you live?
Oh, what does it take to be a man?

We can be blind, but a man tries to see
It takes tenderness for a man to be what he can be
And what does it mean if you're weak or strong?
A gentle feelin' can make it right or make it wrong
What does it take to be a man?

The will to give and not receive
The strength to say what you believe
The heart to feel what others feel inside
To see what they can see

A man is somethin' that's real
It's not what you are, it's what you can feel
It can't be too late to look through the hate and see
I know that's what a man can be

--Tom Scholtz

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Hobie
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 10:49 AM

"I have yet to meet a person worth hating" Me

Hobie

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 11:00 AM

The one on my cubicle at work is:
"Every day I learn one new thing. The trouble is, I forget two others"

Sadly, too true these days!
Roger the er....

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 11:39 AM

John P gave the quote:

"If we are going to have songs for World War III, we had better write them now."

That was Tom Lehrer, in his introduction to his song, "Goodbye, mom, I'm off to drop the bomb."

DAve Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 11:47 AM

Curiouser and curiouser.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: GUEST,Michael Miland
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 12:07 PM

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity- W.B. Yeats

The poor complain that they are governed badly; the rich complain that they are governed at all- G.K. Chesterton

Klaatu Barada Nicto- The Day The Earth Stood Still

To a man with a hammer every problem looks like a nail.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: GUEST,colwyn dane
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 12:20 PM

Hi,

A couple you don't see very often:

"Judge others by yourself and you will rarely be mistaken."

"Only he can be just who can enter into the position of others."

---G. Gurdjieff.---

Cheers,
Colwyn.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: The Walrus at work
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 12:46 PM

Hutzul,

Are you sure about Sir Arnold Bax? I'd always heard that accredited to Sir Thomas Beecham
"Sir Thomas, Have you ever conducted any Stockhausen?"
"No, but I once trod in some!"

A favourite of mine is from Terry Pratchett
"The truth may be out there - The lies are in your head".

Good Luck

Walrus

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: GUEST,Michael Miland
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 12:50 PM

Once is experimentation. Twice is perversion.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: wdyat12
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 12:55 PM

I once complained that I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.

There are so many quotes here that I can't keep track anymore. If this one was previously posted, consider it a belated double post.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: nutty
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 12:57 PM

I still love the supposed Winston Churchill quote which said that;-

"When he was 18 years old he was appalled at how little his parents knew whereas at 21 he was amazed at how much they had learned in three years"

It was the only thing that kept me going when my son was at that obnoxious "know-it-all" stage

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Hutzul
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 01:08 PM

Walrus

I wouldn't swear to it. However, the Morris Dancing web site agrees.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Fiolar
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 01:19 PM

From the great W.C. Fields - "I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake --- which I also keep handy."

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 01:57 PM

Speaking of W.C. Fields:

"Start each day with a smile---and get it over with!"

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 02:00 PM

question authority! (and thats an order)

it may be that your whole purpose in life is to simply serve as a warning to others.

heres to cheese, milks leap toward immortality

give me immortality, or give me death!

may you die in bed at 95, shot by a jealous lover.

she's been married so many times she's got rice marks on her face. (tom waits)

... gets more ass than a toilet seat (tom waits)

yes sir, right away boss, it was like that when I got here. (quotes to live by, Homer Simpson)

nobody goes there anymore, its too crowded (yogi berra)

sex without love is just an empty experience. But as far as empty experiences go, its one of the best. (woody allen)

never eat anything bigger than your head.

at the time when blossoms fall from the cherry tree, on a day when orioles flitted from bough to bough. You said you must stop because your horse was tired. I said I must go, because my silkworms were hungry. (ancient Chinese poem)

never put off for tommorrow what you can postpone indefinitely.

so this seal walks into a club (newfie joke)

two guys went bear hunting, they saw a sign said "bear left" so they went home. (henny youngman)

dorothy parker named her pet parakeet onan, because he kept on spilling his seed.

I love this thread. (I collect quotes too.) that's all I can think of for now.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 02:22 PM

In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -Carl Sagan

It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money, as long as you have got it. - Carl Sagan

(I do like that last one!)

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: zander (inactive)
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 02:54 PM

SHIT HAPPENS.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: mousethief
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 03:21 PM

I was feeling sorry for myself because I had no shoes
Then I met a man who had no feet
And I said, "Friend, can I have your shoes?"
--Roy Zimmerman

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: kendall
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 03:56 PM

That was Mark Twain not Churchill. I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees. Irish?

Even if you are on the right track, if you just sit there, you'll get run over.

BTW Breaker Morant was a great movie.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 07:01 PM

Sir Arnold Bax (Master of the Kings Muisik) was the first documented utterer of the "Try everything once except incest and folk dancing" quote but by the same token I have seen the "It's all folk singing, ain't never heard a horse sing" quote credited (unshakably) to Louis Armstrong, (definitely) Fats Waller and (no it was) Buddy Bolden.

What goes around goes around more than once. You can quote me on that.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: kendall
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 07:47 PM

Only in America can a homeless veteran sleep on the sidewalk, while a draft dodger sleeps in the White House.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 09:06 PM

Michael, that line from The Second Coming - is it in a book of quotes, or did it just stick in your mind?

Education is expensive, but so is ignorance -

Just beyond perception's reach
I vaguely seem to see
That life is two locked boxes, each
Locked around the other's key.
Piet Hein (Punch magazine circa 1966)

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 09:10 PM

Don't know why the credit fell off, but the first of those two quotes above was down to b>Claus Moser (Daily Telegraph, August 1990)

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: kendall
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 10:29 PM

Axe me about ebonics.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: GUEST,Michael Miland
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 11:08 PM

Fionn, it just stuck in my mind. I'm a long-time student of Yeats.

If you can't say anything nice about anyone come over here and sit by me.- Dorothy Parker

If you love something set it free. If it returns to you it is yours. If it doesn't hunt it down and kill it.

(While seeing a priest spreading incense on the congregation)Someone tell the old drag queen his purse is on fire- Tallulah Bankhead

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Dharmabum
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 09:10 AM

If at first you don't succeed,skydiving is not for you.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

It's always darkest before the dawn.So if you're going to steal your neighbors newspaper,that's the time to do it.

Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

Good judgement comes from bad experience,and a lot of that comes from bad judgement.

Duct tape is like the force:It has a light side & a dark side,and it holds the universe together.

There are two theories to arguing with women,neither one works.

Experience is the sinking feeling that you've made this mistake before.

Look out for #1,and don't step in #2.

DB.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 09:23 AM

To continue GUEST Michael Miland's theme I had always believed the quote to be

If you love something set it free If it returns it's yours to keep If it doesn't it was never meant to be But if it just sits there on your sofa eating your food and watching your TV and doesn't appear to realise its been set free You either gave birth to it or married it!

By the way I liked the skydiving one Dharmabum

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Skeptic
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 10:05 AM

"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." Edmund Burke

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy" Ernest Benn

Regards

John

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Deckman
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 02:16 PM

"Tune It Or Die"

"I'm so old it takes me all night to do what I used to do all night"

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: kendall
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 02:40 PM

I'm so old I dont buy green bananas.

A diplomat is one who can say "Nice dog" while looking for a club.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 02:09 PM

General Longstreet, of Civil War (American style) days, upon being asked why he promoted a certain officer to ccommand rank:

"I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in."

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: kendall
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 06:02 PM

Lyndon Johnson said the same thing about J. Edgar Hoover.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Rob S.
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 06:49 PM

"you know, the more laws you make, the more criminals you produce"-- Arlo Guthrie

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: GUEST,Gardenia
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 07:50 PM

Here is one of my favourite quotes:

"To do is to be" J.P. Sartre "To be is to do" J.J. Rousseau "Do be do be do" F. Sinatra

Great thread topic!

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: GUEST,Gardenia
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 08:19 PM

Here are some others I remember:

If you are going for revenge, you better dig two graves (Confucius)

The pen is mightier than the sword, but it is no match for a gun (Unsure of the origin)

The only way to hold a man is in your arms (Mae West)

My information is fascinating, but their sources are unreliable

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: GUEST,Cretrinous Yahoo
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 08:34 PM

The Devil loves an unwanted child. (Henry Kranz)

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Rollo
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 08:55 PM

"Es gibt so viele blitzggescheite Kinder, und mit jedem Tag werden's mehr. Und es stellt sich die peinliche Frage: wo kommen die dummen Erwachsenen her?" - Georg Danzer (There are so many smart children, and everyday they get more, so you have to ask this embarrassing question: where do these stupid grown-ups come from?)

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Pete M
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 09:20 PM

"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are devious and will pee in corners you will never find."

By the way Skeptic, what was the source attributing the quote you mentioned to Burke? My references attribute it to Schiller : "Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens." In Die Jungfrau von Orleans III. vi

Pete M

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: guest(intruder-inactive)
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 09:27 PM

if ever i am faced with the choice of betraying a friend, or betraying my country
may i have the good grace to betray my country

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 10:30 PM

Where you've been is good and gone
All you keep is the getting there

Townes Van Zandt To Live is To Fly

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 19 Feb 01 - 07:51 PM

Jesus Saves, the mongol hordes

Gretzky shoots, Jesus saves.

make the rich pay, for I have been idle

(toast) to our parents children.

Id rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: northfolk/al cholger
Date: 19 Feb 01 - 09:58 PM

"The law in its majestic equality, forbids both the rich and the poor to beg in the streets, sleep under bridges, and steal bread"

Anatole France

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Lucius
Date: 19 Feb 01 - 10:17 PM

Ought to ain't is

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 20 Feb 01 - 04:15 PM

I just found this cool web site that not only has great quotes, but .wav files of the original people saying them! Everything from John F. Kennedy saying, "Ich bin ein Berliner" to Steve Martin saying, "The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here!"

And see the links at the bottom of the page.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 20 Feb 01 - 09:16 PM

"...but .wav files of the original people saying them! Everything from John F. Kennedy saying, "Ich bin ein Berliner"."

Translation of the above (REALLY!): "I am a jelly-filled doughnut!"

Wanting to say that he was spiritually a citizen of Berlin, he should have said, "Ich bin Berliner!" No "ein".

Dave Oesterreich

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Good thing he wasn't visiting Hamburg. -JoeClone 26-Feb-01

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 21 Feb 01 - 12:22 PM

DO: You're absolutely right. It's like the difference between saying "I'm Danish" and "I'm a Danish."

Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Quotes?
From: bflat
Date: 21 Feb 01 - 02:39 PM

DaveO, that is hilarious! I know a few jelly filled donuts and until now thought they were Berliners. Cracks me up! **BG**

Ellen