BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 24 Aug 14 - 06:32 PM

""Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.""
Ross Perot

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 24 Aug 14 - 06:35 PM

""War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.""
Ross Perot

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Aug 14 - 06:44 PM

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

Margaret Mead
---------------------------
"It's impossible to say 'I wasn't talking to you' politely"

   anon

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 24 Aug 14 - 06:48 PM

""Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.""


""Nobody gets paid extra for staying alive. (On seniority-based raises for teachers)""

Ross Perot

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Aug 14 - 06:56 PM

"Smart people look like crazy people to dumb people"
....anon

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 24 Aug 14 - 06:56 PM

Ok my last Ross Perot:

""I'm excess baggage on this company now. I could shake hands with everyone today and never come back, and you would never see the difference.""

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Musket
Date: 25 Aug 14 - 03:37 AM

Freddie Mercury said that fat bottomed girls make the rocking world go round. I suppose Doncaster needs recognition for its contribution to astrophysics.

Viz

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: DMcG
Date: 25 Aug 14 - 03:44 AM

My ex-boss "the scary thing is maybe this IS as good as it gets".

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 25 Aug 14 - 11:12 AM

"In God we trust, all others are suspects."
          -- Police Anonymous

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Aug 14 - 11:47 AM

"In God we trust, all others pay cash."

... sign behind cash register in small store

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Aug 14 - 12:37 PM

If you ever sound like or repeat ideas of a talking head on Fox News,
you are either defending the indefensible or excusing the inexcusable.
dh

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Musket
Date: 26 Aug 14 - 03:36 AM

Donuel, I would add "see Mudcat various threads on Palestine / Israel for examples."

Sorry, non literary quotes, let me see now....

Twos company. Threes fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Aug 14 - 12:17 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Don Firth
Date: 28 Aug 14 - 12:49 AM

Seen on a men's room wall in northern British Columbia, circa 1955:

In case of nuclear attack, dive under the urinal.
It hasn't been hit yet.

Seen on a men's room wall in a coffeehouse near the campus of U.C. Berkeley, 1959:

"To be is to do"—Socrates.
"To do is to be"—Jean-Paul Sartre.
"Do be do be do"—Frank Sinatra.

Seen on the wall of the men's room in the Blue Moon Tavern near the U. of Washington campus in Seattle, around 1965:

Too many freaks. Not enough circuses.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Bert
Date: 28 Aug 14 - 02:45 AM

Another bog wall one.

Amo, amas, amattress.

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 28 Aug 14 - 08:57 AM

"Being politically correct means always having
to say you're sorry."
          -- Anonymous

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Aug 14 - 09:02 AM

"If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream." —Barry Goldwater

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Aug 14 - 09:04 AM

""Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ""  Pericles 430 B.C.

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Aug 14 - 09:11 AM

A few from Prince Philip:


Prince Philip quotes 

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Aug 14 - 10:52 AM

""I'd completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.""
George Carlin

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Musket
Date: 28 Aug 14 - 01:07 PM

"Another day, another pair of underpants"

Michael's diary entry 23 June 2014

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Aug 14 - 02:54 PM

""You know, if you just say, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, you could probably knock a good four hundred pages out of the rule book right there."" The Merged Void, Dave Sim.

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Aug 14 - 04:02 PM

The Golden Rule: "He who has the gold, makes the rules"

that one is pretty well known.

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Kim C
Date: 28 Aug 14 - 05:17 PM

Something my fiddle teacher told me about fiddling, but it applies to so many other things.

"If you need to get there, you'll make yourself get there somehow."

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 08:58 AM

"The best way to win an argument is to begin
by being right."
-- Jill Ruckelshaus

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 09:32 AM

"When you see a man opening the car door for his wife, the odds are he either has a new car, or a new wife" source unknown.

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Musket
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 01:25 PM

A bird in the hand shits on your wrist.

Source, every cynical bugger I drink with.



This thread could keep going if we aren't careful.

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 02:43 PM

Advice given to me over 40 years ago, by an instructor in an apprentice trqaining school, on the importance of taking pride in your work:

          If it's neat, it's probably right;
          If it's not neat, it can't possibly be right

I have repeated these wise words to many hundreds of Scouts over the years when showing them how to put up tents, build structures with ropes & poles and the like.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 03:01 PM

"Why is it that heat makes you sleepy in the daytime, but keeps you awake at night?"

.....................anon from many years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 03:55 PM

Be careful not to speak more clearly than you think.

-Howard Baker

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 09:08 PM

"All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing." 
― G.K. Chesterton

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Don Firth
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 10:36 PM

"There comes a time in the affairs of a man when he has to take the bull by the tail and face the situation."

--W. C. Fields

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 04 Sep 14 - 09:03 AM

"Resistance is useless! (If < 1 ohm)"
               -- Anonymous

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 04 Sep 14 - 09:23 AM

...""the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.""
-Tom Sawyer Abroad

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 04 Sep 14 - 07:51 PM

In memorium:

"Calling Jean Redpath a Scottish Folksinger is like calling Michaelangelo an Italian house painter"

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Sep 14 - 08:17 PM

from a little ditty about mules and their legs

♫"When we're behind the two behind,
We find what these be for!
So stand before the two behind
Behind the two before!"♫

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: JennieG
Date: 04 Sep 14 - 11:26 PM

Said to me when I was young and lovely by a bloke who had designs on my person:

"Don't ever run yourself down. You'll find that other people are more than willing to do it for you, and they will do a better job than you could ever do."

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Mo the caller
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 11:01 AM

On a tv quiz in answer to
'Who was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas?'
'JR'

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Sep 14 - 12:02 PM

"If a hen and a half could lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take a cross-eyed grasshopper with a wooden leg to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle?"

         question my daddy used to pose when I was small

(yes, I know there are variants of this...but his always seemed more... ummmm.. interesting_

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 08 Sep 14 - 06:30 PM

"You can't have everything... where would you
put it?"
          -- Stephen Wright

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: GUEST,Sol
Date: 09 Sep 14 - 03:02 PM

Life is cheap, except with those who are dear.

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Sep 14 - 03:17 PM

""Do you think the guy who invented the vibrator heard voices saying, "If you build it, they will come?"" Source unknown

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Sep 14 - 06:15 PM

"Poker may be a branch of psychological warfare, an art form or indeed a way of life – but it is also merely a game, in which money is simply the means of keeping score." (Anthony Holden)

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Sep 14 - 06:18 PM

"I hope to break even this week. I need the money." (VETERAN GAMBLER)

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Sep 14 - 07:07 PM

Is it just me, or is this thread the perfect illustration of yanks not understanding humour?

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Sep 14 - 08:02 PM

Oh, it's just you...

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Sep 14 - 06:49 PM

Ha. American humour. The art of the unfunny.

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Sep 14 - 07:00 PM

And Bill, please don't force me to quote about a dozen examples from this thread to illustrate.

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Sep 14 - 07:30 PM

I would not dream of such a thing.

I 'might' tease you to explicate just how the arcane art of humor became so highly developed in the UK as to produce Benny Hill.

Google tells me I can read this fellow and discern the difference.


".There's a received wisdom in the U.K. that Americans don't get irony. This is of course not true. But what is true is that they don't use it all the time. It shows up in the smarter comedies but Americans don't use it as much socially as Brits. We use it as liberally as prepositions in every day speech. We tease our friends. We use sarcasm as a shield and a weapon. We avoid sincerity until it's absolutely necessary. We mercilessly take the piss out of people we like or dislike basically. And ourselves. This is very important. Our brashness and swagger is laden with equal portions of self-deprecation. This is our license to hand it out."

I am particularly taken with the last 2 sentences. It reminds me of my ex wife 40 years ago explaining why she bought some odd item we really couldn't afford... "Well, if YOU bought it, I wouldn't argue! So I get to go whatever I want if I allow you the same privilege!"

[you had an extra space before the final backslash- fixed]

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Sep 14 - 05:09 PM

You can do better than to abjectly chuck Benny Hill at us. I note you don't chuck Fawlty Towers or Blackadder or Dad's Army or Monty Python or Billy Connolly at us. And do try to fathom more precisely what irony is.