Quotes from literature (or other sources)

[sydneyboy]

On ocean cruises:

“Jail with the option of drowning.”

-Sir Billy Connolly

[mike carey]

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

[+ E.T.Bass]

“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]

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

[samhexum]

[sydneyboy]

What do you call 2 worms in love? Soil mates.

[sydneyboy]

What do call a herd of happy cattle? A laughing stock.

[sydneyboy]

“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

[sydneyboy]

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”

-Mark Twain

[+ poolboy48220]

“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]

What do you get if you cross leather with a sneeze? Ah shoo.

[sydneyboy]

What do you get if you cross leather with a sneeze? Ah shoo.

[sydneyboy]

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”

-Oscar Wilde

[sydneyboy]

“An IQ test may reveal how smart one would been not to have taken it.”

-Anonymous

[sydneyboy]

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

- Mark Twain

[jeezifonly]

“Shady Pines, Ma. Shady Pines”

Dorothy Zbornak

[EastbayMike]

"Comparison is the thief of joy "

Teddy Roosevelt

[EastbayMike]

"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

[Rod Hagen]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

“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!

[Luv2play]

Referring to money:

“If I can’t take it with me I’m not going.”

-Ella Fitzgerald

 

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Did she also say “ I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor, and trust me, rich is better.”