Scarabin Posted October 3, 2013 Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 Do you have favourite quotations? An old and well known one of mine is: No man is an island,entire unto itself,girt by the sea.Send not to know,for whom the bell tolls,it tolls for thee. This is from memory and may not be exact. :) That is from John Donne, I also like Milton: A dungeon horrible, on all sides round,as one great furnace flamedbut from those flames, no light,but rather darkness visible,served only to discoversights of woe, regions of sorrowwhere peace and rest can never dwellbut torture still urgesand a fiery deluge fedwith ever burning sulphur, unconsumed. Your turn? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted October 3, 2013 Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 I always loved a phrase from sean Connery on a movie about Japanese culture in America (don't know the english name) He says something like: We (americans) look for whose to blame, they (japanese) look for the solution, their method is better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted October 3, 2013 Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 One I saw recently that made me laugh, although it's of almost no merit: https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p480x480/1001380_708928655790122_1150122954_n.jpg 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanoi5 Posted October 3, 2013 Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 One I saw recently that made me laugh, although it's of almost no merit: https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p480x480/1001380_708928655790122_1150122954_n.jpg I'm sure Bob Hamman loves that one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtK78 Posted October 3, 2013 Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 Seen on a bumper sticker on a recent trip: "A**hole is not just a word. It's a lifestyle." (asteriks are my addition - it appeared in full on the bumper sticker) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masse24 Posted October 3, 2013 Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. Aeschylus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted October 3, 2013 Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 I'm sure Bob Hamman loves that one... Has there been any news on that case stateside, or are the legal wheels still turning ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted October 3, 2013 Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 I tell ya, women are crazy these days...take my wife....please! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggwhiz Posted October 3, 2013 Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 Another bumper sticker. I strive to be the man my dog thinks I am. and just below Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted October 3, 2013 Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 "Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized." Daniel Hudson Burnham (my yearbook quote FWIW) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted October 3, 2013 Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 Has there been any news on that case stateside, or are the legal wheels still turning ? Still turning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted October 3, 2013 Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 "You come at the king you best not miss" -Abraham Lincoln "My name is my name" -MLK Jr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted October 3, 2013 Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 And a young prince must be prudent like that,giving freely while his father livesso that afterwards in age when fighting startssteadfast companions will stand by himand hold the line. Behaviour that’s admiredis the path to power among people everywhere. -- from Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf I can't plan your day for you. -- Sheriff Bell's wife to her husband on his first day of retirement from Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted October 3, 2013 Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 I always loved a phrase from sean Connery on a movie about Japanese culture in America (don't know the english name) He says something like: We (americans) look for whose to blame, they (japanese) look for the solution, their method is better."Rising Sun" (1993). His co-star was Wesley Snipes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FM75 Posted October 3, 2013 Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 Prediction is hard. Especially about the future.Yogi Berra 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbodell Posted October 4, 2013 Report Share Posted October 4, 2013 "You come at the king you best not miss"-Abraham Lincoln "My name is my name"-MLK Jr Are those really who said that? I associate the first with Omar and the second with Marlo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted October 4, 2013 Report Share Posted October 4, 2013 Prediction is hard. Especially about the future.Yogi BerraThis one is attributed to many people, although it sounds like the kind of things Berra was known to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted October 4, 2013 Report Share Posted October 4, 2013 "What's the difference between playing on grass and playing on astroturf ?" "Dunno, never smoked astroturf" Attributed to various sportsmen in baseball and football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarabin Posted October 11, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2013 One I saw recently that made me laugh, although it's of almost no merit: https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p480x480/1001380_708928655790122_1150122954_n.jpgAnything as funny as that has considerable merit. More quotations, please? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenMan Posted October 11, 2013 Report Share Posted October 11, 2013 Are those really who said that? I associate the first with Omar and the second with Marlo. Heh. Many (most?) familiar quotations get attributed to people who didn't originate them (or say them at all). Or to quote Yogi Berra, "I didn't say half the things I said." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOut Posted October 11, 2013 Report Share Posted October 11, 2013 "One man's Mede is another man's Persian." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggwhiz Posted October 11, 2013 Report Share Posted October 11, 2013 Baseball is a great source and it's the best part of the game. Bob Uecker "When I came up to bat with 2 outs in the 9th I looked in the other dugout and they were already in street clothes." Jerry Reuss on getting married for the 3rd time. "If this doesn't work I'm going out every 6 months to find a woman I don't like and buy her a house." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted October 12, 2013 Report Share Posted October 12, 2013 Bette Davis to Dick Cavett when he inquired about her virginity: “The wait damn near killed me!” 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 "They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound." "Are my methods unsound?" "I don’t see any method at all, sir." -- Captain Willard and Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chas_P Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 “I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.” ― W.C. Fields Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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