Quotes from literature (or other sources)

[samhexum]

My mom cracked up at this one.

 

She was watching HOLLYWOOD SQUARES and before the round started, the announcer told what the prize was for the 'secret square' and it included furniture from Levitz, and ended with their tag-line "You'll love it at Levitz."

 

The first contestant picked Wally Cox, who wasn't the 'secret square', and after Peter Marshall asked the question, Cox said "I have a question... if you don't love it at Levitz, can you leave it?"

 

I'm sure the sponsor was thrilled.

 

Cox was the voice of Underdog. Although often cast as meek, he was actually quite athletic, as well as a military veteran. He married three times. Cox was also featured in the first episode of the television series Mission: Impossible.

 

 

 

[+ MysticMenace]

'Any hole is a goal' - Aquaria

[+ Cash4Trash]

Mark Twain was told he was good but could never be considered great because only the Elizabethans were great. In response he wrote his very raunchy essay 1601 in that style.

GENTLES, WHAT MATTERETH IT HOW YE SPELL YE WORD?I WARRANT YE WHEN YE USE YOUR BOLLOCKS YE SHALL NOT THINK OF IT; AND MY LADY GRANBY, BEE YE CONTENT, LET YE SPELLING BE; YE SHALL ENJOY YE BEATING OF THEM ON YOUR BUTTOCKS JUST YE SAME I TROW. BEFORE I HAD GAINED MY FOURTEENTH YEARE, I HADDE LEARNED THAT THEM THAT WOULD EXPLORE A CUNT, STOPP'D NOT TO CONSIDER YE SPELLING O'T.

Edited December 19, 2020 by Cash4Trash

[loremipsum]

I have no idea whether this is an accurate quote, but it's so good it has to be posted somewhere here. I saw it some random place on twitter. I offer no opinion on which side of the ledger I'm on.

 

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. ~ Robert Frost

 

Never heard that one, but it’s very similar to a quote usually attributed to Plato: “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”

[sydneyboy]

I would love to have that book.

I have just ordered it on Amazon.

[sydneyboy]

I would love to have that book.

I have just ordered it on Amazon.

[sydneyboy]

“These are my principles. If you don’t like them I have plenty of others.”

-Groucho Marx

Edited March 3, 2021 by sydneyboy

[samhexum]

[loremipsum]

“It’s partly true, too, but it isn’t all true. People always think something’s all true.”

 

-Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye

[Caliboy95]

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

-Sirius Black, Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire

 

 

"Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure."

-Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix

 

 

"Which came first, the Phoenix or the flame? Well then, I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning."

-Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

[loremipsum]

"Which came first, the Phoenix or the flame? Well then, I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning."

-Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

 

Where do Vanished objects go?

[Caliboy95]

Where do Vanished objects go?

“Into non-being, which is to say, everything” ❤️

[Caliboy95]

“When we hit out lowest point, we are open to the greatest change.”

-Avatar Aang, The Legend of Korra, S1E12

[+ MysticMenace]

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[samhexum]

 

[sydneyboy]

“If I had my life over again I’d make the same mistakes only sooner.”

-Tallulah Bankhead

[samhexum]

Edited April 22, 2021 by samhexum

[samhexum]

[JayCeeKy]

“Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.” -- The Aeneid by Virgil. What Aeneas tells his men during a time of hardship.

 

“Maybe we’ll be laughing about even these things some day in the future.” (a modern interpretation)

 

Ever hear ex-service guys who had been together during war when they get together many years later and laugh about their time together? Virgil's quote helps me to put things into perspective when I'm having a rough time. I remember the quote and remind myself that maybe some day I'll look back and have a good laugh about all this crap.

[sydneyboy]

What’s the difference between God and a doctor? God doesn’t think he’s a doctor.

[sydneyboy]

What does a doctor say to God when he meets Him face to face in heaven? Nice to meet an equal.

[BtmBearDad]

“Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.”

St. Augustine

[sydneyboy]

“A man can be ruined in one of three ways. Wine, women and farming. Of the three my father chose the most boring.”

 

Pope John XX111

[JayCeeKy]

“A man can be ruined in one of three ways. Wine, women and farming. Of the three my father chose the most boring.”

Pope John XX111

Good Pope John.

When Pope John XXIII was asked, “How many people work in the Vatican?” his response was, “About half.”

[samhexum]