Great Quotes

[Lee Nub]

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[celsis]

Lady Astor to Churchill, "Winston, if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee."
Churchill, "Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it!"

Oscar Wilde was on his deathbed and his doctor knocked over the oil lamp and set fire to the curtains. Wilde's last words were "Flames? Surely not already!"

And of course, "A woman is but a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke!"

[Cigar-aficionado]

"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other." -
-- Reinhold Niebuhr

[monkey66]

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing"

Much misquoted and generally accredited to Edmund Burke but for me the best reminder of why we all have a responsibility to try to do the right thing where possible.

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"A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke."
Groucho Marx

[tippexx]

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Verbal Kint. The Usual Suspects

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The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Verbal Kint. The Usual Suspects

actually a quote from a french poet Baudelaire in 1864

[tippexx]

Which makes it even better then ..... adds a sort of philosophic Gallic tone. Not unlike the Corsican one beneath my name.

[Lee Nub]

"The only way is up, baby"

Yazz and the plastic population

[Robusto]

The first line of a poem, "Solitude," by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919).


Laugh, and the world laughs with you:
Weep, and you weep alone

[tippexx]

.... or, for a topical quote.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Aneurin Bevan

[Burner]

Re: Great Quotes

"When the government fears the people there is liberty, when the people fear the government there is tyranny." Thomas Jefferson

[rokkitsci]

“Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.”

Emo Philips

[Gordonbcb]

"It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes. "

Clamenza.

[Pipe Dude]

"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure if you realise that what you heard is not what I meant."

Robert McCloskey, U.S. State Department spokesman, by Marvin Kalb, CBS reporter, in TV Guide, 31 March 1984, citing an unspecified press briefing during the Vietnam war.