"And it looks like death came as quite a surprise to his ass"
Richard Pryor
"Well," says he, "my dear, do as you will, when you are up; you know I never contradict you."—"No," says she; "if the devil was to contradict me, I would make the house too hot to hold him."
An exchange between Mr and Mrs Tow-wouse, proprietors of the Dragon Inn, in Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews.
"The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake."
~Robert Frost
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
We just had 35 mph of easy wind and over 2 feet of downy flake.
@George,
I gave that one four thumbs up, george.
"Human beings will be happier—not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia."
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (American Novelist; b. 1922)
Columbia Dictionary
@spendius,
Quote:You should knock off blurting assertions which happen to satisfy you.
You can't discuss language use without reference to what it is being used for.
Two assertions that seem to satisfy you, Spendi.
I was making a point about Shakespeare and grammar, which you didn't understand. But, no worries. That's completely understandable given your level of ignorance on the history of language.
@JTT,
Neither were assertions. The first was a suggestion and the second is so obvious a fact that it is bootless to argue about it. Although it was remiss of me not to include the word "sensibly" in the second point.
Your 3 assertion post proves my point.
"I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife"
Hannibal Lecter
http://quotesg.com/Category/success/
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill
@spendius,
Quote: the second is so obvious a fact ...
For christ's sakes, Spendi, you are the A2K champ in this regard.
i know these are likely to offend, so if you are a christian, feel free to skip this post.
"another dead hero" - written on a portrait of bill hicks, in the artwork on the album "aenima" by Tool.
"You know, the world's twelve-thousand years old, and dinosaurs existed in that time, you'd think it would've been mentioned in the ******* bible at some point. "And o, Jesus and the disciples walked to Nazareth, but the trail was blocked by a giant brontosaurus with a splinter in his paw. And o, the disciples did run a-shrieking 'What a big ******* lizard, Lord.' But Jesus was unafraid, and he took the splinter from the brontosaurus' paw, and the big lizard became his friend. And Jesus sent him to Scotland where he lived in a Loch for oh so many years, inviting thousands of American tourists to bring their fat ******* families and their fat dollar bills. And O Scotland did praise the Lord. Thank you, Lord." - Bill Hicks
" A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. Do you think when Jesus comes back he's gonna want to see a ******* cross? " - Bill Hicks
Al: Women should have three breasts - two in front and one in the back for dancing.
Married With Children TV show
"Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in
my case. Now what?"
~William Saroyan
Statement to the Associated Press, five days before his death. (13 May 1981)
“The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the sabbaths God? murder those who were murder'd because of him? turn away the law from the woman taken in adultery? steal the labor of others to support him? bear false witness when he omitted making a defense before Pilate? covet when he pray'd for his disciples, and when he bid them shake off the dust of their feet against such as refused to lodge them? I tell you, no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments; Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
"i told you i was ill" - spike miligan's epitaph.
"jesus christ! is that the time already?" - what billy conolly wants as his.
"Dying in Paris is terribly expensive for a foreigner."
Oscar Wilde
Either those drapes go or I do.
Oscar Wilde on his deathbed
