Favourite Quotes

[JLT]

And sometimes I go visit my sister in Tranna (can you guess what place that is?)

I give up, Louanne. Where is that?

 

[Louanne Learning]

I give up, Louanne. Where is that?

Toronto!

 

[JLT]

Toronto!

Never would have guessed.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Here's another quote ...

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
~~ Groucho Marx

 

[DLC]

 

[Rath Darkblade]

I guess I don't have a real job, then. ;-P It's a very real and very responsible job, but not many children's books feature porcine bookkeepers.

 

[Selluwud]

I guess I don't have a real job, then. ;-P It's a very real and very responsible job, but not many children's books feature porcine bookkeepers.

 

[JLT]

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So if a pig's job is making pork sausages, I suppose that neatly sums up the concept of a human living off other humans, metaphorically setting them up for his consumption. I'd rather not go there.

 

[JLT]

Here's another quote ...

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
~~ Groucho Marx

One of my favorite Groucho quotes, along with "I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception."

One thing that exasperated him was that while he was never make a real connection with those famous wits at the Algonquin "Round Table," his brother Harpo was always welcome there.

 

[Also]

One of my favorite Groucho quotes, along with "I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception."

One thing that exasperated him was that while he was never make a real connection with those famous wits at the Algonquin "Round Table," his brother Harpo was always welcome there.

He did not think of himself as lowbrow?

 

[Rath Darkblade]

So if a pig's job is making pork sausages, I suppose that neatly sums up the concept of a human living off other humans, metaphorically setting them up for his consumption. I'd rather not go there.

I'm sure it's not the point, but those sausages might be beef ones. The picture doesn't make it clear. </pedant>

 

[THUNDAIR]

Counting to ten makes it premeditated. unknown

 

[Rath Darkblade]

“And God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light, but the electricity board said he would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.”
~~Spike Milligan

 

[Also]

“And God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light, but the electricity board said he would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.”
~~Spike Milligan

Only until Thursday? Must be the zipcode.

 

[Louanne Learning]

“After a certain point in life, litigation replaces sex.”

~ Gore Vidal (who would have turned 100 on October 3)

He’d crossed swords, most famously, with William F. Buckley Jr., Norman Mailer, and Truman Capote, and had either sued, been sued by, or threatened to sue each of them.

 

[JLT]

"The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not."
--Albert Schweitzer

 

[JLT]

Toronto!

It's funny that I was just listening to an Ian and Sylvie recording a few days ago, and Ian mentioned "Tranna" in one song. I never caught the reference or understood the song before. Thank you, Louanne!

 

[Iain Aschendale]

"History will not wake you from your ignorant slumber gently."
-Mike Brock

 

[Rath Darkblade]

“Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
-- George Carlin