Greatest Quotes of All Time

[soFlaNative]

"Great Googly Moogly!"
Not sure, but first heard by me in the Frank Zappa "Yellow Snow" song.

 

[keith44spl]

If'n you tell everyone, everything you know....

Then they'll know what you know plus what you know too!

My Momma


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[drummer007]

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits."

 

[LTC]

"Hang Tough"

Maj. Dick Winters


"You'll go to hell for Lying as well as stealing"

Mom

 

[Pilgrim]

"Freedom used to be our birthright. Now it means whatever we're still allowed to do."

-Borrowed form someone on the internet.

'Compromise is failure on the installment plan.'

-same author

 

[hangnoose]

A COMMON AND OFTEN THE LAST FEW WORDS OF MANY

"IT'S ONLY INDIGESTION, I DON'T NEED AN AM-BU-LANCE, ARRRGH----"

 

[Blowncar]

If the facts disagree with your theory, believe the facts and invent a new theory.

Professor Warren Johnson

 

[norm]

Beer is proof God wants men to be happy.

Ben Franklin

 

[James&theGiant1911]

I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ***, and I am all out of bubblegum

Roddy Piper - They Live

 

[Johnmuratore]

Democracy works until the masses realize they can vote themselves bread and circuses.

Heinlein (I think)

 

[Johnmuratore]

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Benjamin Franklin

 

[shouldazagged]

"God deliver me from humorless devotees of any cause."--Someone who thinks very much like me.

 

[kframeman]

''The coldest winter I ever spent, was a summer in San Francisco'' AND " It's a shame youth is wasted on the young " I do believe those belong to Mark Twain

 

[CaptRon956]

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after".
.............Henry David Thoreau

 

[shouldazagged]

"Great gobs o' goo!"--Bullwinkle J. Moose

 

[RobertJ.]

"A man is measured by what others say of him."

Solomon

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

"Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead." Poor Richard aka Ben Franklin

 

[gunnut44]

Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow.

Me.

 

[A-37]

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

-Oscar Wilde

 

[oldRoger]

Do not protracted hopes of life embrace;
Whilst we are talking,
Envious time doth slide;
This days thine own,
The next may be denied.
Horace.

 

[rbrbrb6]

"I can not look at your butt and read your mind!"

My dad to me when I was a young teenager. Most famous quote to me.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

"Knowledge is Good" - At base of statue of "founder" of Faber College in Animal House.

 

[gaucho1]

"Who Dat Who Say Who Dat?"

Rochester..........Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein...

 

[WR Moore]

"Eat healthy, exercise regularly, die anyway."

Seen on a bumper sticker some years ago.

 

[cockerpoodle2]

"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."
"Everything is within walking distance if you have enough time."
Steven Wright

 

[cockerpoodle2]

Another couple of Winston Churchill quotes:
Lady Astor: "Winston, if I were married to you I would put poison in your coffee."
Winston: "Lady Astor, if I were married to you, I would drink it."
and,
Lady Astor: "Winston, you don't even know how many toes a pig has."
"Lady Astor, I must confess that I don't know how many toes a pig has. Take off your little shoes and let's have a look."
plus, my favorite:
"Ending a sentence with a preposition is an abomination, up with which, I will not put."

 

[shouldazagged]

I think this is Mark Twain, but I'm not dead sure. It's certainly one I use a lot to refer to myself:

"If I'm not an idiot, I'll do till one gets here."

 

[mstem]

Man who drive like Hell sooner or later gets there.

Wise old Indian Chief

 

[fiasconva]

"No job is so simple that someone can't screw it up." Murphy?

 

[loknload]

You dirty double- crossing rat!
James Cagney 1932