[y66]

"Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder." -- Flann O'Brian aka Brian O'Nolan in The Dalkey Archive

[1eyedjack]

"You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think".

(Dorothy Parker, I think).

[1eyedjack]

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

"Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope"

(Freewheelin' Frankin Freakoutski"

[blackshoe]

1eyedjack, on 2013-October-30, 11:55, said:

"You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think".

(Dorothy Parker, I think).

Yes. I remember another line from one of her stories: '"Shut up," he explained.'

[blackshoe]

1eyedjack, on 2013-October-30, 11:57, said:

"Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope"

(Freewheelin' Frankin Freakoutski"

Ah, the memories…

AFAIK, Franklin was the only one of the Freak Brothers (who were not siblings) who last name was never mentioned. The other two were Phineas Phreak and Fat Freddy Freekowtski.

[kenberg]

Dorothy Parker is probably like Yogi Berra ("A lot of the things I said I didn't say" was the way I heard it), but one attributed to her, when she was informed that Calvin Coolidge had died: "How could they tell?".

[GreenMan]

Indeed, the "'Shut up,' he explained" quote is actually by Ring Lardner. It is a fine piece of prose.

My favorite Dorothy Parker story involved her animosity with Clair Boothe Luce. Once both of them arrived at a door at the same time, and after an awkward moment, Luce stepped back and said, "Age before beauty, my dear." Parker breezed past saying, "And pearls before swine."

[blackshoe]

GreenMan, on 2013-October-30, 20:52, said:

Indeed, the "'Shut up,' he explained" quote is actually by Ring Lardner. It is a fine piece of prose.

My favorite Dorothy Parker story involved her animosity with Clair Boothe Luce. Once both of them arrived at a door at the same time, and after an awkward moment, Luce stepped back and said, "Age before beauty, my dear." Parker breezed past saying, "And pearls before swine."

Heh. I used to have a pretty good memory, but I lost it somewhere, and now I'm not sure where to look for it.

"In the morning I will be sober, and you will still be ugly". -- Sir Winston Churchill.

"I'm lookin' for loopholes." -- W.C. Fields, shortly before his death, explaining why he was reading the Bible.

[GreenMan]

I had to look up the Lardner quote; I vaguely recalled it was a male author.

As for Fields, "I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy."

[mike777]

blackshoe, on 2013-October-30, 21:57, said:

Heh. I used to have a pretty good memory, but I lost it somewhere, and now I'm not sure where to look for it.

"In the morning I will be sober, and you will still be ugly". -- Sir Winston Churchill.

"I'm lookin' for loopholes." -- W.C. Fields, shortly before his death, explaining why he was reading the Bible.

any quote the last 100 years by Churchill, drunk, exhausted, or otherwise.
He is a leader

[Fluffy]

Erring is human, but even more human is to blame other for your errors.

[1eyedjack]

"I deny the allegation and denounce the aligator"

- Groucho

Also

"Either he's dead or my watch has stopped"

(and numerous others)

[helene_t]

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

Prediction is hard. Especially about the future.
Yogi BerraNiels Bohr.

FYP

[blackshoe]

"Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là." ("I had no need for that hypothesis".) - Apocryphal, attributed to Simon-Pierre, Marquis de LaPlace (1749-1827).

[Chas_P]

On a more serious note....


"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do."

Benjamin Franklin

[barmar]

Fluffy, on 2013-October-31, 02:26, said:

Erring is human, but even more human is to blame other for your errors.

but to really F things up takes a computer.

[barmar]

Chas_P, on 2013-October-31, 09:24, said:

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do."

Benjamin Franklin

Related: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Usually attributed to either Abraham Lincoln or Mark Twain. But there's apparently no evidence that either of them used it.

http://quoteinvestig.../remain-silent/

[Chas_P]

Since Mark Twain got in here how about.....

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."

[FM75]

helene_t, on 2013-October-31, 08:32, said:

FYP

OK - maybe not Berra, or Bohr



W. J. Moore, in Schrödinger, Life and Thought (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1989), p. 320 refers to this as an "old Danish proverb" that Bohr was fond of quoting. All Danes, however, know that it was the cartoonist Storm P. who said it first:

»Det er svært at spå, især om fremtiden«.

http://chaosbook.blo...dk-citater.html

[USViking]

blackshoe, on 2013-October-30, 21:57, said:

Heh. I used to have a pretty good memory, but I lost it somewhere, and now I'm not sure where to look for it.

"In the morning I will be sober, and you will still be ugly". -- Sir Winston Churchill.

Churchill's interlocutor here is supposed to have been Lady Astor (originally from Danville, VA USA, and the first female UK MP, I think). It is really not a very witty remark, more nasty than anything else, and I prefer to think Churchill did not, in fact, say anything so uncouth to a lady, despite their political and personal enmity.


A far better exchange is this:

Lady Astor: If you were my husband I would poison your coffee!

Churchill: If you were my wife I would drink it.