Favourite Quotations

Subject: Favourite Quotations
From: ositojuanito
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 08:01 AM

I would like to read favourite quotations by members here. Mine is one I heard in a Steve McQueen movie once: 'There Never was a Horse that Couldn't be Rode, and there Never was a Rider that couldn't be Throwed'

John

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Leadfingers
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 08:04 AM

Louis Armstrong , when he was doing the 'Virtuoso' bit with Big Bands in the late thirties was asked if he read music- His reply , I love !! "Not enough to hurt my playing!"

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: number 6
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 08:24 AM

I've posted this here before in the Cat, but what the hell, I'll post it again since this thread seems appropriate.

"I played the wrong, wrong notes" .... Thelonius Monk


sIx

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: kendall
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 08:29 AM

Whenever I am forced to change my mind about something, or not do what I was about to, I think of this quote from Shakespere;

"And enterprises of great pith and moment become sicklied over with the pale cast of thought, and lose the name of action" Good old Bill is responsible for many of my favorite quotes.

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 08:50 AM

Eric Morcambe to Andre Previn, " listen sunshine, I'm playing all the right notes, but neccessarily in the right order '

eric

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: leeneia
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 10:18 AM

Brains first, and then hard work.

       Eeyore

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: leeneia
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 10:19 AM

Hmmm. Maybe there was no s on brains.

Brain first, and then hard work.

      Eeyore

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Big Mick
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 10:42 AM

I don't know who said it but "Will Rogers never met Howard Cosell" always cracks me up.

Mick

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 11:17 AM

"Do a job twice, and it's yours"

unknown

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 12:35 PM

"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."

G.K. Chesterton

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: fat B****rd
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 02:54 PM

"They f**k you up, your Mam and Dad"

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,richlmo
Date: 24 Sep 06 - 10:40 PM

somethings lost but somethings gained by living everyday
                         Joni Mitchell

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,Johnhenry'shammer
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 12:27 AM

"Folk songs are serious, Arlo."
-Pete Seeger

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 08:51 AM

You don't need the weatherman to know which way the wind blows...Bob Dylan

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: DoctorJug
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:12 AM

'Whoever said, "All men are created equal" never saw Bo Diddley in the shower.'

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: woodsie
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:41 AM

Fom "At noon tonight"

folk music will be sung by folk!

Adran Henri

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:44 AM

I was going to quote something erudite by Richard Bridge but I can never figure out what he's saying. But geeze, it sure does sound good when you read it.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Effsee
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:46 AM

The more you know, the more you know you don't know...My Dad.

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Dave Earl
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:50 AM

If you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem.

I believe it was Eldredge Cleaver that said it.

Dave

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 11:01 AM

Eldridge Cleaver is generally credited with its coinage (1968). However, according to Ralph Keys, it was used earlier by City College (N.Y.) president Buell Gallagher (1964).

Spaw

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Amos
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 11:24 AM

Here's one prior thread on this theme.


And anudder vun.

Osito: If you put "quot" into the filter box on the forum home page and set the time frame to "All" you will be astonished!

A

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Scrump
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 11:30 AM

If you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem

That depends on whether the problem in question affects you or not.

Illogical, captain.

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Michael in Swansea
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 12:02 PM

"Never drink wnen you're unconcious"

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: sian, west wales
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 12:29 PM

"If we are not ourselves, we shall be less than others." Mavor Moore


"O'r tu mewn i draddodiad cadarn y blagura newyddwch." Saunders Lewis
("From inside a secure tradition sprouts innovation.")


sian

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Old Grizzly
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 12:36 PM

This tune was written in 1714....... but we play it in 6/8

Floss Headford

:o)

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: DADGBE
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 08:45 PM

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. – There's also a negative side."

Hunter S. Thompson

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: frogprince
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 09:09 PM

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside a dog, it's too dark to read."   Groucho Marx

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: bobad
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 09:24 PM

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
   
    Charles Bukowski

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Beer
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:14 PM

1) Never drink water. Fish make love in it. W.C. Fields.

2) If that's Your Knee Roll Over. If it's not your knee, I'll roll over. Think it was May West in a movie with W.C.

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Amos
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:24 PM

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." (Attributed to Anais Nin, French-born American writer, 1903-1977.)

"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." (Martha Washington, 1731-1802, wife of US President George Washington and the first US First Lady, 1789-1797.

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:38 PM

We have met the enemy, and they are us.

Pogo

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Midchuck
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:45 PM

When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last.

One of the characters in Pogo, I forget which.

Peter

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:55 PM

Hi Lin.....That's the final form that Walt Kelly used of his famous quote which appeared in about 1970 as part of the environmental push. However the original was a part of the Foreward of "The Pogo Papers" back in the early 50's when Kelly took on Joe McCarthy. I have always loved the original as well so here it is too!

"There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us."

"Forward!"

Man, that's just beautiful.....................

Spaw

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: JennyO
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 11:55 PM

"Nothing changes until it becomes what it is."

"Wherever you go, there you are."

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: John O'L
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 04:34 AM

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions

Today's Cryptoquote but I dunno who said it. Prolly Russell or Shaw or what's-his-name, you know...

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: The Sandman
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 02:00 PM

man must eat before he can think.

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: chrisgl
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 03:06 PM

Varies according to the season and the event, but these I like


"He's three stops short of Dagenham"
(HInt: consult London tube map)


"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."
John Cage


"When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, January 18, 1896, Scientific American Magazine

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,Arnie
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 03:14 PM

"Once you're dead, you're dead for the rest of your life"
From an old friend

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Beer
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 04:09 PM

To Change the System you must first be in it. ???

Autocratic clarity is a ton better than participative fuzziness. ??

My favorite is: There is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget. ??

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Pompy
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 04:48 PM

"Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? ...... Did she die in vain?

Tony Hancock addressing a jury in one of his half-hours

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 06:48 PM

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep"

Who else?

~D

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Richard in Manchester
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 08:09 PM

I shall be an autocrat, for that is my trade. And God will forgive me; that's his.

Catherine the Great

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Richard in Manchester
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 08:11 PM

"You should consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King; and you should hate a Frenchman like you hate the devil."

Knocks 'England expects...' into a cocked hat, that one.

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: bobad
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 09:06 PM

"Reason over passion."

P.E.Trudeau

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Mudjack
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 01:46 PM

Answer to a question, "AHhh..........Ah....I don't think I should comment on that at this time, AHhh.. next question.."
President of the United States, press confrences 2002,2003,2004,2005 and 2006.

Mudjack

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Effsee
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 02:20 PM

A closed mouth gathers no feet. Anon

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: kendall
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 02:24 PM

A working man voting for a republican is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: GUEST,John3697
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 02:41 PM

Love me with all your grits, as I love you.    Mason Williams

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: Bert
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 04:11 PM

Oh yes Popinjay,

Remember when we all used to go around quoting Hancock.

"I'm not going 'round with an empty arm for anyone"

Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations
From: KenBrock
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 04:28 PM

"Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks" Sly Stone (Everyday People)