sydneyboy Posted April 4, 2020 Posted April 4, 2020 On ocean cruises: “Jail with the option of drowning.” -Sir Billy Connolly beachboy and Luv2play 2
mike carey Posted April 4, 2020 Posted April 4, 2020 On ocean cruises: “Jail with the option of drowning.” -Sir Billy Connolly A little older than that, at least the sentiment is. 'No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.' Samuel Johnson beachboy and + Charlie 2
+ E.T.Bass Posted April 4, 2020 Posted April 4, 2020 (edited) “People think I’m in the closet. People think I’m out of the closet. People think I’m straight. People think I’m gay. Whatever you want to believe is fine with me.” ~ Andre Aciman, Rain Magazine interview, 4-2-2020 Edited April 7, 2020 by E.T.Bass
sydneyboy Posted April 24, 2020 Posted April 24, 2020 I profoundly disappointed @Benjamin_Nicholas that you didn’t take your own advise. So here: ”I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I'm under the table, after four I'm under my host.” “Alcohol increases the desire but detracts from the performance.” -William Shakespeare
sydneyboy Posted May 27, 2020 Posted May 27, 2020 What do call a herd of happy cattle? A laughing stock.
sydneyboy Posted May 29, 2020 Posted May 29, 2020 “It is the essence of a wise social system to label certain harmless practices as “sin” but tolerate those who perform them whereby the pleasure of wickedness is obtained without harm to anyone.” -Bertrand Russell mike carey and beachboy 2
sydneyboy Posted June 9, 2020 Posted June 9, 2020 “Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” -Mark Twain
+ poolboy48220 Posted June 9, 2020 Posted June 9, 2020 “Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” -Mark Twain There's speculation that may've been what killed Chris McCandless, the guy who died living in the wild in Alaska, the movie "Into the Wild" is about him. He had a book about native plants but may have mis-read it or the book had an error, and he ate toxic berries.
sydneyboy Posted June 10, 2020 Posted June 10, 2020 What do you get if you cross leather with a sneeze? Ah shoo.
sydneyboy Posted June 10, 2020 Posted June 10, 2020 What do you get if you cross leather with a sneeze? Ah shoo.
sydneyboy Posted July 1, 2020 Posted July 1, 2020 “The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.” -Oscar Wilde beachboy 1
sydneyboy Posted July 18, 2020 Posted July 18, 2020 “An IQ test may reveal how smart one would been not to have taken it.” -Anonymous
sydneyboy Posted October 21, 2020 Posted October 21, 2020 “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” - Mark Twain
jeezifonly Posted October 21, 2020 Posted October 21, 2020 “Shady Pines, Ma. Shady Pines” Dorothy Zbornak
EastbayMike Posted October 21, 2020 Posted October 21, 2020 "Comparison is the thief of joy " Teddy Roosevelt
EastbayMike Posted October 21, 2020 Posted October 21, 2020 "If the concept of God has any use, it is to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God can't do that, it's time we got rid of him."James Baldwin + Charlie 1
Rod Hagen Posted November 4, 2020 Posted November 4, 2020 George Saunders pointed this out from Silas Marner: "On rocky isles gulls woke." In one line it describes what most writers would take paragraphs to set up. And I love that the punctuation is purposely wrong.
mike carey Posted November 5, 2020 Posted November 5, 2020 Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot.
+ Charlie Posted November 5, 2020 Posted November 5, 2020 Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot. I would have expected Guy Fawkes to post this quote. (I still remember kids in London asking, "A penny for the Guy!")
mike carey Posted November 5, 2020 Posted November 5, 2020 I would have expected Guy Fawkes to post this quote. (I still remember kids in London asking, "A penny for the Guy!") Indeed, but it's 5 Nov here earlier than in Nevada (although I posted this late in the evening of the day). I did add, 'A penny for the Guy', when I tweeted it. I usually remember to post this every year.
Luv2play Posted November 10, 2020 Posted November 10, 2020 Just about anything by Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde. I've got a book called "The Portable Curmudgeon" which is mostly curmudgeonly quotes arranged by topic, interspersed with mini biographies of said curmudgeons. I would love to have that book.
Luv2play Posted November 10, 2020 Posted November 10, 2020 “Home is heaven and orgies are vile but you need on orgy once in a while.” -Ogden Nash That was the quote given to me in my high school yearbook. Did I have some splaining to do with my parents! sydneyboy and beachboy 2
Luv2play Posted November 10, 2020 Posted November 10, 2020 Referring to money: “If I can’t take it with me I’m not going.” -Ella Fitzgerald “ Did she also say “ I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor, and trust me, rich is better.” beachboy 1
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