mike777 Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 I wanted to upvote chase but he wont let me :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycroft Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Ah, Bob Uecker: "The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and pick it up." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 “There’s two kinds of coaches. Them that’s fired and them that’s gonna be fired.” “He can take his’n and beat your’n or he can take your’n and beat his’n.” [referring to Bear Bryant or Don Shula or both] “My name’s pronounced ‘Awl,’ but no one could pronounce it right. Even in school, I answered to the name Bum. Oail was my daddy’s first name, too. But he went by the nickname Flip.” Oail Andrew Phillips aka Bum Phillips, 1923-2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarabin Posted October 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 I am trying to trace a quotation about King Charles the second. It was to the effect that he was a very tolerant, forgiving King but that this did not reflect to his credit since he had such a low opinion of men no one could disappoint him. I think I read it in Antonia Fraser's biography but it may have been in a biography of Marlborough. Remember C caught M bedding C's mistress. Anyhow I cannot find it. Can anyone help, please? :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted October 26, 2013 Report Share Posted October 26, 2013 "Trust your stuff, and follow me, one pitch at a time." Yadier Molina, catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, to 22-year old flamethrower, Carlos Martinez. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 "If I was in the Senate, I'd kill myself" -- Chris Christie, popular Republican Governor of New Jersey who enjoys bipartisan support, after visiting Washington during the government shutdown. Edited per comments from ArtK78. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenMan Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 "If I was in the Senate, I'd kill myself" -- Chris Christie, popular bipartisan Republican Governor of New Jersey, after visiting Washington during the government shutdown. "If we had more guys like you, we'd have less guys like you." --Hawkeye Pierce, some episode of M*A*S*H 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtK78 Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 "If I was in the Senate, I'd kill myself" -- Chris Christie, popular bipartisan Republican Governor of New Jersey, after visiting Washington during the government shutdown.It is a little over-the-top to call Chris Christie "bipartisan" (although many have - see the story linked below). A better description of Chris Christie is "New Jerseyan." He is for New Jersey first, politics be damned. But make no mistake about it, he is a full-fledged Republican. And that is something that is driving me crazy. Because, as a fellow New Jerseyan, I really like the guy. I just don't like his politics or most of his policies. The New Jersey Gubernatorial election is coming up on November 5. His challenger, Barbara Buono, has little or no chance of winning. I am having a hard time deciding whether to vote for a man who unquestionably is an able governor who puts the interests of the State above all else, or for a woman whose politics and policy agenda much more closely match my own. See, for example, the following story about Chris Christie: http://www.foxnews.c...-sandy-efforts/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 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." "Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeit" -Einstein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenMan Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 “I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.” ― W.C. Fields Bring me loose whiskey and strong women! --Warren Ellis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 “I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.” ― W.C. Fields George Best said something very similar along with: "In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life." and on receiving a blood transfusion in association with his liver transplant "I was in for 10 hours and had 40 pints - beating my previous record by 20 minutes." But I think the best quote was allegedly delivered to him by a hotel bellboy delivering champagne who found him in bed with Miss World with casino winnings all over the bed: "So George, where did it all go wrong?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jandrew Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 Who was it who said - "Perfection is second best." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FM75 Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 Hi Bill. How is the gay rights movement going? Said to a straight co-worker entering the elevator on the first floor of the Empire State Building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onoway Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 maybe in the wrong thread and it will only manage to annoy everyone but it made me laugh when I ran across it today Oscar Wilde:I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 I'll see if this survives the censors.A friend told me that his sister read Portnoy's Complain and remarked "That's one penis I don't envy". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 "Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder." -- Flann O'Brian aka Brian O'Nolan in The Dalkey Archive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eyedjack Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think". (Dorothy Parker, I think). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eyedjack Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 One I saw recently that made me laugh, although it's of almost no merit: https://fbcdn-sphoto...150122954_n.jpg "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope" (Freewheelin' Frankin Freakoutski" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think". (Dorothy Parker, I think).Yes. I remember another line from one of her stories: '"Shut up," he explained.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope" (Freewheelin' Frankin Freakoutski" :D Ah, the memories… AFAIK, Franklin was the only one of the Freak Brothers (who were not siblings) who last name was never mentioned. The other two were Phineas Phreak and Fat Freddy Freekowtski. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Dorothy Parker is probably like Yogi Berra ("A lot of the things I said I didn't say" was the way I heard it), but one attributed to her, when she was informed that Calvin Coolidge had died: "How could they tell?". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenMan Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Indeed, the "'Shut up,' he explained" quote is actually by Ring Lardner. It is a fine piece of prose. My favorite Dorothy Parker story involved her animosity with Clair Boothe Luce. Once both of them arrived at a door at the same time, and after an awkward moment, Luce stepped back and said, "Age before beauty, my dear." Parker breezed past saying, "And pearls before swine." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Indeed, the "'Shut up,' he explained" quote is actually by Ring Lardner. It is a fine piece of prose. My favorite Dorothy Parker story involved her animosity with Clair Boothe Luce. Once both of them arrived at a door at the same time, and after an awkward moment, Luce stepped back and said, "Age before beauty, my dear." Parker breezed past saying, "And pearls before swine."Heh. I used to have a pretty good memory, but I lost it somewhere, and now I'm not sure where to look for it. :P "In the morning I will be sober, and you will still be ugly". -- Sir Winston Churchill. "I'm lookin' for loopholes." -- W.C. Fields, shortly before his death, explaining why he was reading the Bible. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenMan Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 I had to look up the Lardner quote; I vaguely recalled it was a male author. As for Fields, "I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Heh. I used to have a pretty good memory, but I lost it somewhere, and now I'm not sure where to look for it. :P "In the morning I will be sober, and you will still be ugly". -- Sir Winston Churchill. "I'm lookin' for loopholes." -- W.C. Fields, shortly before his death, explaining why he was reading the Bible. any quote the last 100 years by Churchill, drunk, exhausted, or otherwise.He is a leader Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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