Favorite Quotes

[sechs]

Cogito, ergo sum.
- Decartes

 

[sechs]

Elle flotte, elle hésite; en un mot, elle est femme.
- Jean Racine

 

[sechs]

Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.
- Napoleon

 

[sechs]

Je parle espagnol à Dieu, italien aux femmes, français aux hommes et allemand à mon cheval.
- Emperor Charles V

 

[sechs]

Dear Mister Language Person: I am curious about the expression, "Part of
this complete breakfast". The way it comes up is, my 5-year-old will be
watching TV cartoon shows in the morning, and they'll show a commercial
for a children's compressed breakfast compound such as "Froot Loops" or
"Lucky Charms", and they always show it sitting on a table next to some
actual food such as eggs, and the announcer always says: "Part of this
complete breakfast". Don't that really mean, "Adjacent to this complete
breakfast", or "On the same table as this complete breakfast"? And
couldn't they make essentially the same claim if, instead of Froot Loops,
they put a can of shaving cream there, or a dead bat?

Answer: Yes.
-- Dave Barry, "Tips for Writer's"

 

[sechs]

L'amour, tel qu'il existe dans la société, n'est que l'échange de deux fantaisies et le contact de deux épidermes.
- Nicolas-Sébastien Chamfort

 

[sechs]

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
- C. Northcote Parkinson

 

[sechs]

Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Frank Ward O'Malley

 

[sechs]

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.
- Alfred Emanuel Smith

 

[sechs]

Laws were made to be broken.
- Christopher North

 

[sechs]

Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.
- Professor Noam Chompsky as an example of a gramatically correct sentence that makes no sense

 

[sechs]

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.
- Groucho Marx

 

[sechs]

Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.
- C.P. Scott

 

[Handruin]

:mrgrn:

 

[sechs]

Well, if I Called the Wrong Number, Why Did You Answer the Phone?
- James Thurber

 

[sechs]

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.
- Ogden Nash

 

[Buck]

We can't have sechs posting all the quotes.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened - Winston Churchill

 

[sechs]

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
- Chuang Tse

 

[sechs]

I used your soap two years ago; since then I have used no other.
- Punch

 

[Jake the Dog]

God answers the conundrum to discover an anagramatic fondess for he who is quoted in the Little Red Book:

Dogma: I am God.
God: Am Dig Mao


-G.Mit

 

[Mercutio]

Found on a packet of Taco Bell "Fire" Border Sauce:

"Nice palm. I read a great deal of pleasure in your future."

 

[Howell]

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. -Anon

 

[Howell]

Judging by those who talk about it all the time, virtue seems to consist
of three elements: (1) walking around like you have a broom up your ass,
(2) feeling smug about the broom up your ass and (3) thinking the world
would be a perfect place if only we could get rid of people who use phrases
like "broom up your ass.

--Matt Groening, as quoted in George Magazine

 

[Howell]

"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
-unknown














(Whatever's said in Latin appears more profound)

 

[sechs]

When angry count a hundred; when very angry swear.
- Mark Twain, from Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, March

 

[sechs]

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."

— George W. Bush, in Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005

 

[sechs]

Lady in stall #1: So, you want to look for that book you wanted?
Lady in stall #2: We are in the bathroom!
Lady in stall #1: It's a bookstore bathroom.
Saleslady in stall #3: Which book are you looking for?
Lady in stall #2: The one by Tupac Shakur.
Saleslady in stall #3: We have it in the Media isle.

-- at the Barnes & Noble on 22nd & 6th, New York

 

[CougTek]

What were you doing in the ladies' bathroom?

 

[sechs]

What do you do in the ladies' bathroom?

 

[i]

Bathe them?

 

[Vlad The Impaler]

True friends stab you in the front.
--Oscar Wilde

 

[Vlad The Impaler]

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
--Oscar Wilde

 

[Vlad The Impaler]

"Not all of us learn from mistakes. It could well be that the purpose of your life is just to serve as a warning to others"

 

[mubs]

And so president Bush came marching in to the room, got right in my face, eyeball-to-eyeball, nose-to-nose this close, toe-to-toe and he said, "I'm George Bush, President of the United States, and I understand you have something to say to me privately."

Dolores Kesterson, mother of slain (in Iraq) Chief Warrant Officer Erik Kesterson, describing the beginning of her three-minute meeting with Bush following her only child's death in 2003.

 

[fb]

"At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation."

— Igor Sikorsky

 

[Bozo]

When I was in the Army, I worked on CH-47 helicopters. The Tech inspector that signed the aircraft off as flight ready, had to fly on it during it's test flight.
Quality control

Bozo :mrgrn:

 

[i]

Sung to the tune of the 1812 Overture (a.k.a. Lone Ranger theme)

I've got a head like a ping-pong ball.
I've got a head like a ping-pong ball.
I've got a head like a ping-pong ball.
Ping!
...like a ping-pong ball!

 

[Mercutio]

The "Lone Ranger Theme" is actually the middle bit of the William Tell Overture.

 

[sechs]

"You can support the troops but not the president."
---Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

 

[Handruin]

"War does not determine who is right, war determine who is left"

--Source unknown