BS: Quotable Quotes

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: GUEST,Musket musing
Date: 28 Sep 13 - 02:32 AM

If music be the food of love, play on.
Shakespeare

Fuck
D H Lawrence





If music be the food of love, why don't rabbits sing like buggery?

(Heard 30 odd years ago somewhere and I still slip it in my act now and then. )

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 28 Sep 13 - 02:08 AM

All her childhood her parents warn her against the demon rum, and indeed rum is very terrible stuff except in cocktails.

Damon Runyon

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Andrez
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 07:59 PM

"Gross national product does not include the beauty of our poetry or the intelligence of our public debate; measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile."   Robert Kennedy

Speaks for itself doesnt it?

Cheers,

Andrez

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Midchuck
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 07:40 PM

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

Author?

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 07:17 PM

"With each passing year, because of advances in computer technology, there are more things, each more sophisticated, that we aren't allowed to do any more."

Paul Lutus

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 06:57 PM

"Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why
cookbooks outsell sex books three to one."
    L.M. Boyd

"If I had know I was going to live this long, I would have taken
better care of myself."
    Unknown

"'Shut up,' he explained.
    Ring Lardner

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Joe_F
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 04:22 PM

"An election tells how many of your supporters are living, and a war tells how many are willing to be dead." -- G. K. Chesterton

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 08:41 AM

"I haven't sold my soul yet -- well, maybe a couple bars of rhythm and blues here and there...."

Thomas Pynchon

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 08:05 AM

Winston Churchill was furious when the voters dumped him after the war, for Clement Atlee. When someone stated that Mr. Atlee is a modest man, Churchill remarked, "He has much to be modest about."

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 07:52 AM

""War does not decide who is right, war decides who is left"" - Bertrand Russell

The power of the wordplay in this quote and the elegance of its construction always appealed to me.

Add to that the essential truth of it, and it is irrefutable.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 06:21 AM

""Once you pull the pin, Mr. Grenade is never your friend"". I belive it comes from military sources. Could have specific or broad meanings.

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Dr. Jug
Date: 27 Sep 13 - 03:30 AM

Miss Piggy:
Never eat more than you can lift.

Jeremy Platt:
We're all God's children, except for Gordon Lee.

Robert Fripp:
Tuning a Mellotron, doesn't.

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 26 Sep 13 - 12:27 PM

For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently

Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing V i

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 26 Sep 13 - 12:14 PM

Old Age

What a strange thing to happen

To a little boy 

George Oppen

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 26 Sep 13 - 12:02 PM

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
Winston Churchill



"A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother."

Charles M Schultz, Peanuts



"All the things I really like are immoral, illegal, or fattening"

usually attributed to Dorothy Parker but other sources suggest Alexander Woollcott

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: *Laura*
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 07:21 PM

"You're the love of my life.... the apple of my eye.... the pain in my arse..."

xLx

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Sep 06 - 07:27 AM

had to bring back this thread for the following:



"Subject: RE: Just found Mudcat
From: WYSIWYG - PM
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 08:56 AM

Enjoy the anarchy, give what you can, and use what you get!

~Susan "

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Mar 06 - 05:17 PM

"Every cloud has a silver lining and every silver lining has some tarnish.."

       me, in response to a friend who has been on a BIG roller coaster ride lately.

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: lady penelope
Date: 28 Mar 06 - 04:41 PM

""I observe myself and so I come to know others." Lao-Tse"

In a glass darkly.......

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: autolycus
Date: 28 Mar 06 - 04:06 PM

"How can I tell what I think till I see what I say." E.M.Forster

"A cynic is someone who, when he smells flowersa, looks for the coffin."    H.L.Mencken

"I observe myself and so I come to know others." Lao-Tse

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Mar 06 - 12:42 PM

Yes- and just look at who MD has ended up giving our electorial votes to, in the last two elections...

Subject: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 28 Mar 06 - 12:25 PM

Re: the Diebold machines:
The machines are controlled by, and can be altered by, the COUNTY election commissions- and here in MD they are DEMOCRATIC in the counties I have mentioned.
BeardedBruce

I assume that's "Democratic" rather that "democratic"
CHEERS
Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Mar 06 - 11:26 AM

"Today's (whatever) community does not serve the best interests of all humanity or of this planet." They" serve the interests of the political/economic/military/scientific "powers that be" who pay their salaries, give the grants and thereby control and direct their " efforts.

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Mar 06 - 10:22 AM

"The internet has enabled the broad release of way more information than in fact exists."

GUEST,robomatic
Date: 28 Mar 06 - 10:03 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: The Shambles
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 09:10 AM

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Moliere

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 06:40 AM

But you're trying your best to prove it Roger, you and the other 99999!
G. ☺

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: The Shambles
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 05:40 AM

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare.

Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.

Ian Hart

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: GUEST,thurg
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 02:09 PM

But I do have a sneaking suspicion that most of life is an extended curtain call after the great dramas of childhood and adolescence.

- Anna Quindlen

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: The Shambles
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 11:59 AM

I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.

Fatty Arbuckle

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: The Shambles
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 09:58 AM

Bugger off

A young boy scout

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 06:06 AM

Be prepared

Gen. Baden-Powell

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 05:22 AM

"Folk-song - Music on which,because the original composer foolishly preferred to remain anonymous,anyone can claim the royalties - if he is quick enough."
Peter Gammond

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: The Shambles
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 10:25 PM

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

George Washington

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: kendall
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 07:52 PM

Always be prepared to shoot your own dog. Farming it out only makes it harder." Lasarus Long.

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: EBarnacle
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 05:18 PM

The opinion of the majority is sure to be correct. Run that by again.
The opinion of one person is likely to be better informed than the opinion of the majority.
Lazarus Long, masquerading as Robert Heinlein.

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: autolycus
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 05:09 PM

"The three great strategies for obscuring an issue are to introduce irrelevancies, to arouse prejudice and to excite ridicule."

Bergan Evans,'The Natural History of Nonsense.'


   I hope people find that quote useful when catting.



   Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Bert
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 01:45 PM

It's pretty sad when only one of our members is prepared to keep reminding us that we have to fight to retain our right to sing.

And all the others, instead of backing him up, just call it nagging.

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 01:32 PM

The PM system was not designed for infantile mud slinging, and were there one grain of intelligence contained in either the post or the child who sent it it would have remained sacrosanct.
Giok.

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: The Shambles
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 01:29 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: flamenco ted - PM
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 11:52 AM

True though isn't it.

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 01:27 PM

It has always been a convention among MOST members of 'our forum' not to nag the management incessantly.





Proverbs 13:3 (to keep the quote theme going)

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Bert
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 01:24 PM

You're right Shambles, and also we're supposed to be nice to one another. So Ted & Giok kiss and make up.

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: The Shambles
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 12:38 PM

It has always been a convention recognised on our forum that what is said in personal messages and emails is not to be made public without the permission of both parties.

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 11:52 AM

True though isn't it.

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 11:49 AM

"From         Title         Date         Archive         Delete
flamenco ted         ,         21 Mar 2006 10:54 AM
                
                        
Message:
You are one po faced, miserable arsehole and no mistake!"

Another quotable quote received by me in a PM from Flamenco Ted

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 11:47 AM

No it isn't. What a stupid post.

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 11:37 AM

Crime is just politics without the lies.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Bert
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 03:01 AM

'And remember - squeeze hard and squeeze often.'

Andrew on the Melodeon/Accordian thread

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Trevor
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 12:53 PM

"Interdependence can either be a great strength or a fatal weakness. The individual must be allowed to strive within an environment of mutual dependence. If not, the loss of the individual will surely become a fatal weakness - an Achilles' heel.........














....as it has for the Borg, whose principal vulnerability is found in their complete interdependence in which the individual is totally destroyed."

JEAN-LUC PICARD
CAPTAIN, USS ENTERPRISE

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 12:01 PM

'the people with the same sort of ideas, as you put it, would have plenty of opportunity to discuss those ideas effectively in a non-partisan Congress or Assembly and in public meetings, both before, during, and after an election involving no political parties'

I think this is an interesting quote from Little Hawk, above. Ideas can be generated and polished in such events then passed to others to legislate - but the legislaters need to be accountable and so we lead back to groups wiht some kind of long term organisation.

The current failure of the party sustem is that those assemblies or public meetings don't really happen and our senior elected members act as if they are unaccountable.

Just chucking them out is a start but in the long term we want then to do what we the people want and I think this leads back to ..........

Subject: RE: BS: Quotable Quotes
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 06:28 AM

"Anything that happens,happens.
Anything that,in happening causes something else to happen,
causes someting else to happen.
Anything that in happening, causes itself to happen again,
happens again.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order,though."
DOUGLAS ADAMS