Fun with favorite quotes

Life loses it's interest when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. - Sigmund Freud

To race is to live. All else is merely waiting. - Rudolf Caracciola
 
"Wives are like elephants, fun to look at but I wouldn't want to own one."
W.C. Fields

A small boy, seeing W.C. Fields reading the Bible, asks "What are you doing?"

"Looking for loopholes, my boy. Looking for loopholes."

"All in All, I'd rather be in Philidelphia." W.C. Fields epitaph.

"People say I should get married but I say why should I buy a book when there's a thriving lending library in town?" Benny Hill
 
"English, who needs that? I'm never going to England!" - Homer Simpson

"Can't you see this horse loves me?"
"Mister, I had a woman kiss me like that, it didn't make her my wife."
-Paden & sherriff in Silverado
 
Another variation on stupidity: Ignorance can be corrected, stupidity is permanent.
Butch
 
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.


Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.- Vonnegut


We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
 
Samuel Johnson lurched out of one of his favorite taverns in a state of partial undress.

A woman meeting him on the street exclaimed , "Why Doctor Johnson, your member is sticking out."

"You flatter yourself, Madam. It's hanging out."
 
King of England to his mistress (Actress Lilly Langtree) : "I've spent enough on you to buy a battleship".

Langtree: "You've spent enough in me to float one".
 
Stupidity seems to be a popular subject.

"Ya can't fix stupid." Ron White

"Artificial intellegence is no match for natural stupidity"

"Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large groups."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
Albert Einstein

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
Frank Zappa
 
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." - Yogi Berra
 
For so many situations..

"Think of it as Evolution in action"

from Oath of Fealty, Niven and Pournelle
 
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