What are some of yours?
I came across this one earlier and posted in on the bad hair day thread (since it comes from Emo Philips – apparently we share a hairdo) but then thought it would be a good idea to start a separate post for favourite quotes. Anyhow, here is the Emo Philips one…
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Okay, your turn. 
casa azahar 
“When choosing between two evils, I like to try the one I’ve never tried before”- Mae West
and, from Fawlty Towers, “Do I detect the smell of burning martyr?”
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This is a good quote from a good friend:
“When your kids are driving you the most nuts is when you give them the biggest hug”.
I’ve used it, and it works.
–L
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another Mae West
When I’m good, I’m very very good
When I’m bad, I’m better
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‘No problem is insoluble, given a sufficiently large plastic bag’.
– Tom Stoppard
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“Money does not bring happiness, however, it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.”
“What is the use of a large vocabulary of words if one has only a small range of ideas?”
“Never harbour grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.”
– Robertson Davies
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“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,—
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do
If bees are few.”
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There’s so many brilliant ones. I’ll give a couple, one funny, one serious.
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.”
-Spike Milligan
‘The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but rather to think what no one yet has thought about that which everybody sees.’
-Erwin Schrödinger
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Here’s a couple of my faves:
“No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.” George Bernard Shaw
“I love deadlines – I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by”
– Douglas Adams
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.” — Erica Jong
Wonder what these say about me? Too much, more than likely. 😉
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“Life isn’t one damn thing after another: it’s the same damn thing, over and over again.”
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Just remembered one I heard recently on a cooking programme, (okay I admit it, I’m cooking obsessed, – no idea who said this quote)
Great French cooking shows the genius of the chef, great Italian, shows the genius of God.’
I love both cuisines but I think I’d feel more at ease with the chef being a genius actually.
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From Hasya yoga site;
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. — Agnes Repplier
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Never try to outstubborn a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein
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I can never remember who this is by, so hadn’t posted it before now, but it also comes under the heading of famous last words, and making sure of your ground first.
In the US War of Independance, one of the British Generals when facing a troop of U.S. riflemen, and his troops were taking cover:
“Why are you hiding men, they couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist…”
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Ah, that reminds me of ‘famous last words’ attributed to HH Munroe (aka Saki) who was shot and killed by a sniper just before dawn in the trenches (WW1).
“Put that bloody cigarette out!”
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Whatever you can do,
Or dream you can do,
Begin it.
Boldness has genius,
Magic and power.
Begin it now.
– Goethe
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I *really* like that one! Words to live by.
I’m kind of into redirection these days; that quote fits nicely. 🙂
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“We said Na-na-na-nanananah so many times that the words lost all meaning to us.”
– George Harrison
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Not a quote as such, but a good line from the Terry Pratchett book I’m reading (Moving Pictures)…
“Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”
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There’s a place out on the infernalic web that givves you a new Pratchett quote daily. The last week, at least, the quotes have been from “Moving Pictures”
The feed is at this page, I think…
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You and your links, dq!
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What else can a bored grad student amuse herself with? *shrug*
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No, I mean the link doesn’t work, dq! 🙂
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well it did yesterday
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If you say so …
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