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Posted: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:42 am
by sundaymorningstaple
That or no memory of who they perked up with......
Sorry! I know a lot of blokes like that already and they are only in their 30's!
Posted: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:52 am
by Steve1960
Simple, less thought provoking and practical
'don't eat the yellow snow'
Posted: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:10 pm
by ecureilx
Posted: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 3:25 pm
by Mi Amigo
I have nothing against being married. I've had several highly successful marriages myself.
- Garrison Keillor
Posted: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 3:36 pm
by sundaymorningstaple
^^ I can relate to that!
Posted: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 9:39 am
by JR8
'Life is but a passing shadow. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.'
Shakespeare
Posted: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 9:47 am
by rajagainstthemachine
This thread reminds of quotable quotes from Readers Digest.
Posted: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 8:13 pm
by ecureilx
rajagainstthemachine wrote:This thread reminds of quotable quotes from Readers Digest.
Saw this somewhere
LOVE IS BLIND
From Shakespeare
But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
Modern-day research supports the view that the blindness of love is not just a fugurative matter. A research study in 2004 by University College London found that feelings of love suppressed the activity of the areas of the brain that control critical thought.
Of course, we should all take note of J Mason Brewer's advice in Worser Days and Better Times, 1965 (which is described as a 'collection of negro humour'):
I don't make love by the garden gate,
For love is blind, but the neighbors ain't.
Posted: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 9:02 pm
by GSM8
2 from Yes Prime Minister came to mind. Classic..
How can you let sleeping dogs lie if you let the cat out of the bag? (Desmond Glazebrook)
One never trusts anyone one has deceived. (Humphrey Appleby)
Posted: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 9:21 am
by JR8
Posted: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 7:06 am
by earthfriendly
The person who minds nobody's business but his own is probably a millionaire.
Just saw this on Forbes.com. I think I know what it is trying to say but still not quite.................hmnnnnnnn
Posted: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 11:34 am
by JR8
'The oldest person in the world was born with a completely different set of humans'.
Posted: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 3:00 pm
by kaseyma
Don't these belong in the "Music" discussion?
Posted: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 3:12 pm
by kaseyma
Steve1960 wrote:Simple, less thought provoking and practical
'don't eat the yellow snow'
"Watch out where the huskies go
An' don't you eat that yellow snow."
-
Frank Zappa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz80GwTJM9M
Maybe this belongs in the Music discussion, too.
Posted: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 8:42 pm
by rajagainstthemachine
WHEN INSULTS HAD CLASS
These glorious insults are from an era when 4-letter words weren't necessary..
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow.
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas. (Moses Hadas was an American teacher, one of the leading classical scholars of the twentieth century, and a translator of numerous works)
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain.
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.." - Oscar Wilde.
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill.
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second ... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in response.
"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." -Stephen Bishop.
"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright.
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb.
"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." - Samuel Johnson.
"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating.
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker.
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain.
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.."
- Mae West.
"Some cause. happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde.
