I'm quoting, here (no spam)

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Sun May 17, 2009 7:17 am

Ronan wrote:"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oscar Wilde had the same idea.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed May 20, 2009 9:55 pm

"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails." -Clarence Darrow

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu May 21, 2009 11:27 am

"As I was walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd stay away." -Hughes Mearns

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:46 pm

"If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist -- then you may please even God." -Akbar Khan, master sarod player (1922-2009)

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:41 pm

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
- Ellen Goodman

Pekka · Post by **Pekka** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:57 am

"Even if you're eaten, there are at least two ways out." (Unknown)

Loki[D.d.G] · Post by **Loki[D.d.G]** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:55 am

Another Einstein quote, one that Des might appreciate;

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:31 pm

"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it." -John Stuart Mill, 1866

Loki[D.d.G] · Post by **Loki[D.d.G]** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:19 am

True friends stab you in the front
- Oscar Wilde

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse
- Walt Disney

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:11 am

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

George Carlin

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:10 pm

"if you can’t take [the lobbyists'] money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and vote against ‘em anyway, you don’t belong in the Legislature." -Jesse Unruh, former speaker of the California state assembly

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:16 pm

Just found this on my iGoogle page....

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

- Quentin Crisp

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:06 am

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges." -Anatole France

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 6:11 pm

"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."
- G. K. Chesterton

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:41 pm

fable wrote:"As I was walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd stay away." -Hughes Mearns

Have I caught you in a misquote or is there more than one version of Antigonash floating around?

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 5:12 pm

Vicsun wrote:Have I caught you in a misquote or is there more than one version of Antigonash floating around?

More than one version, as this indicates.

jklinders · Post by **jklinders** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:23 am

I have a particular fondness for this one.

The average person thinks he isn't.
Father Larry Lorenzoni

Sain · Post by **Sain** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:47 am

"This statement is false."
"This milk smell spoiled, test and make sure for me."

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:07 am

"Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?"

George Carlin

Loki[D.d.G] · Post by **Loki[D.d.G]** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:26 am

We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.

- George Bernard Shaw