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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.

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

"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

"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)

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

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

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.

"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

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

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

George Carlin

"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

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

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

"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

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?

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.

I have a particular fondness for this one.

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

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

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

George Carlin

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