favourite quotes

[the_bebe_]

what are peoples favourite quotes?

[sddsddean]

Spike Milligans headstone "I told you I was ill!"

[mightywease]

Current favourite is from the song "Emily" by Joanna Newsom - I just love the image it creates in my mind

"The meteorite is a source of the light
And the meteor's just what we see
And the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee"

[Buenchico]

"The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of World history" - Mao Tse Tung.

It's absolute rubbish but it has to be my favourite quote because I managed to work it into countless essays at college and I got an 'A' grade for every one ;-)

I'm currently trying to get my head around what Geoff Boycott said about Kevin Pietersen a couple of months ago. It has a rather enchanting element of surrealism to it:
"He thinks he's better than he is - and I agree with him".

Chris

[JK2]

Almost anything by Dorothy Parker - e.g.

Katherine Hepburn runs the gamut of emotions from A-B.

[drchasuble]

"All Animals Are Equal, But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others." George Orwell.

[jake-the-peg]

"Listen!...Can you smell something?"

Bill Murray from GhostBusters!

or

"I'd have understood if she'd run off with a Bull fighter - But with a Chemist!?!!

Physicist Wolfgang Pauli on learning his wife had left him

[-Z-]

"When I said Id kill you last..........I lied"...Commando

[jeanette1976]

'For every beautiful woman, there's a guy who's sick of f@*king her...'

Apologies for the lewdness of this.... but I think it's excellent but not sure who quoted it.

[marwel7]

No good deed goes unpunished - old Klingon saying.

[puddycat]

"Life is like a broken pencil...pointless" - Blackadder

[naz_nomad]

We didn't murder our way to the top of the food chain to eat lettuce.

[starmack]

"Tim wounds all 'heels'" -- quoted by and about Larry Hagman's role as ruthless oil baron JR Ewing n "Dallas" TV series.

[starmack]

Answer above amended - who is Tim?? It should read:
"Time wounds all 'heels'" -- quoted by and about Larry Hagman's role as ruthless oil baron JR Ewing n "Dallas" TV series.

[Kuin]

I like a lot of Shakespeare - so probably "What a page of work is man" from Hamlet, and "Frailty; thy name is woman!"

I had a good one from King Lear in mind, but it's gone. :)

[garybfsl]

Another Dorothy Parker:

You can take a horticulture but you can't make her think.

[paulos66]

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." -
-- Jane Austen

[eco123]

Silence is the best response to a fool. - Unknown

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