[Scarabin]

Do you have favourite quotations? An old and well known one of mine is:

No man is an island,
entire unto itself,
girt by the sea.
Send not to know,
for whom the bell tolls,
it tolls for thee.

This is from memory and may not be exact.

That is from John Donne, I also like Milton:

A dungeon horrible, on all sides round,
as one great furnace flamed
but from those flames, no light,
but rather darkness visible,
served only to discover
sights of woe, regions of sorrow
where peace and rest can never dwell
but torture still urges
and a fiery deluge fed
with ever burning sulphur, unconsumed.

Your turn?

[Fluffy]

I always loved a phrase from sean Connery on a movie about Japanese culture in America (don't know the english name)

He says something like:

We (americans) look for whose to blame, they (japanese) look for the solution, their method is better.

[Cyberyeti]

One I saw recently that made me laugh, although it's of almost no merit:

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[Hanoi5]

Cyberyeti, on 2013-October-03, 03:39, said:

One I saw recently that made me laugh, although it's of almost no merit:

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I'm sure Bob Hamman loves that one...

[ArtK78]

Seen on a bumper sticker on a recent trip:

"A**hole is not just a word. It's a lifestyle."

(asteriks are my addition - it appeared in full on the bumper sticker)

[masse24]

He who learns must suffer.
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
and in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Aeschylus

[Cyberyeti]

Hanoi5, on 2013-October-03, 05:48, said:

I'm sure Bob Hamman loves that one...

Has there been any news on that case stateside, or are the legal wheels still turning ?

[Winstonm]

I tell ya, women are crazy these days...take my wife....please!

[ggwhiz]

Another bumper sticker.

I strive to be the man my dog thinks I am.

and just below

[hrothgar]

"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized."

Daniel Hudson Burnham

(my yearbook quote FWIW)

[jjbrr]

Cyberyeti, on 2013-October-03, 06:34, said:

Has there been any news on that case stateside, or are the legal wheels still turning ?

Still turning.

[jjbrr]

"You come at the king you best not miss"

-Abraham Lincoln


"My name is my name"

-MLK Jr

[y66]

Quote

And a young prince must be prudent like that,
giving freely while his father lives
so that afterwards in age when fighting starts
steadfast companions will stand by him
and hold the line. Behaviour that’s admired
is the path to power among people everywhere. -- from Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf

Quote

I can't plan your day for you. -- Sheriff Bell's wife to her husband on his first day of retirement from Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men

[blackshoe]

Fluffy, on 2013-October-03, 03:25, said:

I always loved a phrase from sean Connery on a movie about Japanese culture in America (don't know the english name)

He says something like:

We (americans) look for whose to blame, they (japanese) look for the solution, their method is better.

"Rising Sun" (1993). His co-star was Wesley Snipes.

[FM75]

Prediction is hard. Especially about the future.
Yogi Berra

[Mbodell]

jjbrr, on 2013-October-03, 11:13, said:

"You come at the king you best not miss"
-Abraham Lincoln

"My name is my name"
-MLK Jr

Are those really who said that? I associate the first with Omar and the second with Marlo.

[barmar]

FM75, on 2013-October-03, 16:27, said:

Prediction is hard. Especially about the future.
Yogi Berra

This one is attributed to many people, although it sounds like the kind of things Berra was known to say.

[Cyberyeti]

"What's the difference between playing on grass and playing on astroturf ?"

"Dunno, never smoked astroturf"

Attributed to various sportsmen in baseball and football.

[Scarabin]

Cyberyeti, on 2013-October-03, 03:39, said:

One I saw recently that made me laugh, although it's of almost no merit:

https://fbcdn-sphoto...150122954_n.jpg

Anything as funny as that has considerable merit.

More quotations, please?

[GreenMan]

Mbodell, on 2013-October-03, 18:35, said:

Are those really who said that? I associate the first with Omar and the second with Marlo.

Heh. Many (most?) familiar quotations get attributed to people who didn't originate them (or say them at all). Or to quote Yogi Berra, "I didn't say half the things I said."