“You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.”
― Mick Jagger
@edgarblythe,
People who don't have embarrassing stories are untrustworthy. Or at the very least, they aren't telling the truth.
Suzanne Guillette
I thought he was rich.
John D.Rockefeller,1892, upon learning Jay Gould's(1836-1892) estate was
valued at seventy million dollars.
“I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.”
― Greta Garbo
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
~Benjamin Franklin
They also serve who only stand and wait.
John Milton on his blindness
“If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.”
Mel Brooks
@edgarblythe,
I have been advised by my badger to say nothing. Cat on BBC2 Mongrels.
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
― Muhammad Ali
When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?
~John Ball, called "The Mad Priest of Kent"
"Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall."
~Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas
“Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.”
Allan Sherman
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin. ~Jay Leno
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains, And go to your God like a soldier”
Rudyard Kipling
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Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?
Coleman Cox
“And what have I done?"
What? WHAT?...You've stolen them."
With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who "them" was.
The boys.
The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
@edgarblythe,
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost
"Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect."
~Oren Arnold
"Sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the
stuff that nature replaces it with."
~Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Karl Popper's advice to academics on writing style: "Lack of clarity is a sin and pretentiousness is a crime."
