Favorite Quotes

[quote]Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

Andy Warhol

The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.

My lord! We had quite forgot the fart!

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life, so you bought some sweatpants.

"You must love this country more than I love a cold beer on a hot Christmas morning."

One of several is:

[quote]How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

-- Coco Chanel

I've been called worse things by better people.

Pierre Trudeau when asked about having been called asshole by Nixon

[quote]We have trouble, my friends, in the country, because we have too much money owing, the greatest indebtedness that has ever been given to civilization, where it has been shown that we are incapable of distributing the actual things that are here, [bold]because the people have not money enough to supply themselves with them, and because the greed of a few men is such that they think it is necessary that they own everything, and their pleasure consists in the starvation of the masses, and in their possessing things they cannot use, and their children cannot use, [italic]but who bask in the splendor of sunlight and wealth, casting darkness and despair and impressing it on everyone else.[/italic][/bold]--Huey P. Long, Share Our Wealth Radio Speech.

The most terrible August in the history of the world.

When you play the victim, you give all autonomy of your own life to someone else.

"Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, we have no excuse to be idle now"

--Anthony Burgess

Drop quotes.

"Drop the stupid lingo, asshat."

We know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.

"The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."

- From the farewell speech of President Richard M. Nixon.

"Tears are the scalding aftermath of dreams." --Character played by Josephine Hutchinson on Wagon Train, episode "The Tom Tuckett Story"

All I wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing... and then made me mute. Why? Tell me that. If He didn't want me to praise him with music, why implant the desire like a lust in my body and then deny me the talent?"

"If it is possible for a human being to be like a haunted house, maybe that would be me.”--Dorothy Dandridge autobiography

"Wherever you go, there you are."

[The] time a town or even a country is really lost is when the people who live in it get careless and stop paying attention to how it's being run.--"Lucas McCain," The Rifleman, season 3, episode 3.

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

Harold Wilson

I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.

"When they go low, sometimes ya gotta kick 'em."--Symone Sanders Townsend, MSNBC's "The Weekend," 09/8/24

"For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love But to be loved alone." WH Auden

I've fallen in love or imagine that I have; went to a party and lost my head. Bought a horse which I don't need at all.

[quote]There will come a time between 40 and 42 when you will really have tired of other people's shit. You will get very clear about what it is you really want to do, and you won't care what other people think. ... It's the realization that time is really all that you have, and when you reach 40, you will not be as willing to let other people use and abuse yours.

-- Camille Cosby

From the great philosopher-burnout Edward Furlong, the corollary to R14:

"Once you get in there, it's so hard to see a way out. That's what I'd want people to understand – there is a way out but it's hard."

Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.

"They that love beyond the world cannot be separated. Death cannot kill what never dies, Nor can spirits ever be divided that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still."

--Character "Maj. Seth Adams" (Ward Bond), [italic]Wagon Train,[/italic] episode "The Levi Hale Story."

I desperately want this to be true. Three years ago the best friend I will ever have in this life died suddenly; we had been estranged since 2010, and never reconciled. I had missed him for 12 years, and now will miss him forever.

"Conspiracies hatched in Hell do not have angels as witnesses."

--U.S. Attorney who prosecuted the candy heiress Helen Brach murder trial of Richard Bailey, interview on "The Prosecutors: In Pursuit of Justice" series

"The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon." —Eugene Ionesco, playwright.

A life lived in fear is a life half lived. -Strictly Ballroomp

lol, Ballroom

“When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars. And he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will fall in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.”

Act 3, Scene 2, “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare.

You know, I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. And then I laughed…really hard.”

"The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise." Plate

"The great appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!" James Larkin

"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes to the bones." Dorothy Parker

"Recollections may vary."

"No man is a hero to his valet"

--the Duke of Condé

"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats."

--Albert Schweitzer

I attack ideas, not people.

I sharted in Kroger.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest of these, "It might have been."

“My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.”

"Never place a period where God has placed a comma".

"The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic." —Rod Serling

"Men, you gotta do what you gotta do."

Walter Pidgeon in Men of the Fighting Lady, 1954

“Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally.”

I forgot who said that.

"Ted Casablanca is not a fag. And I'm the dame who can prove it."

Tales of your incompetence do not interest me.

"I don't see why we have to wait for Oksana to re-apply her make-up. She's just going to cry again."

--bitter silver medalist Nancy Kerrigan at the 1992 Olympics, right before the medal ceremony

"I don't sleep in my clothes, nor do I sleep with them. I require one bedroom for my wardrobe, and one for myself."

--Dominique Devereaux

"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."

--Dan Quayle, in a 1989 speech to the United Negro College Fund

R43 - I read that as Rod Stewart - sent me down a 5 minute mental hole about Rod Stewart's life and when he would say something like that. Nevermind.

“There is only one thing in the world that is worse than being talked about, that is not being talked about.”

-Oscar Wilde

"I think when you're pretty it doesn't matter how you wear your hair."

--Frances Faye

"He who lives more lives than one

More deaths than one must die."

- Oscar Wilde meditates on the tragic consequences of Bunburying.

The more you say the less the better.

Your poor planning does not constitute a crisis for me.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey

There's no birthday party for me here- Spicoli

Thank You and Fuck You!

The perfect thing to see when given a gift by an enabler. For example, you're trying to lose weight, and your bestie gives you a Coconut Cream Pie because he knows it's your favorite.

‘The only exercise I get is following the coffins of friends who exercised’.

"It's called style, Sable. Some of us have it, and some of us don't."

"Wherever I go I always tell people the hardest job of a black preacher is to preach the funeral of an irrelevant Negro. They roll the body down the aisle ... and we're supposed to hallucinate a life you never lived."

--Rev. Al Sharpton

I was to be a ham.

"But was it rape-rape ?"

"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."

Abuse of power comes as no surprise.

I thought they were the Sharks?

A chick with a dick is not a chick, and a gay who claims to be a they is nothing but a cliche.

“Did I eat maíz!??

I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.

Damn, two things I’m really bad at R57.

Life is a miserable interlude between two periods of blissful non-existence.

Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else.

Threw from the Datalounge QuotesHall of Fame:

Ben Affleck's joke on the subject: "If you pound a nail in a board once, they don't call you a carpenter. If you fix a sink one time, they don't call you a plumber. But man, you suck one dick..." —— "Remember, the word Beauty does not contain the letters O, L or D for a reason." —— Soccer player George Best summed up his life when he said: "I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."

Let’s try that again: “Three from the Datalounge Quotes Hall of Fame:

Ben Affleck's joke on the subject: "If you pound a nail in a board once, they don't call you a carpenter. If you fix a sink one time, they don't call you a plumber. But man, you suck one dick..."

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"Remember, the word Beauty does not contain the letters O, L or D for a reason."

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Best summed up his life when he said: "I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."

"You only know what happiness is once you're married. But then it's too late." —Peter Sellers

R73 makes me feel a bit better about what is going on right now.

And those who we dancing

Were thought to be insane

By those who could not hear the music

*And those who were dancing

Aging is the wonderful process in which you become the person you were always meant to be.

"But you see, in dealing with me, the relatives didn't know that they were dealing with a staunch character. And I tell you, if there's anything worse than a staunch woman... S-T-A-U-N-C-H! There's nothing worse, I'm telling you. They don't weaken, no matter WHAT!"

”We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.” – Bayard Rustin

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

"I can resist everything except temptation."

"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."

[quote]R2 The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.—Sir Edward Grey

An odd metaphor. Unless people were becoming wise to energy conservation.

Even if lamps are shut off for wartime blackouts, that doesn’t last for “a lifetime.”

"I wouldn't suck your lousy dick if I was suffocating and there was oxygen in your balls!" - Taffy, Female Trouble from the mighty pen of John Waters.

I believe the world CAN be beautiful. It just won't.

Life is about Excitement, advernture, and dreams

“We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Oscar Wilde

“It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don’t believe it can physically be done. The other half are doing it.”

When told upon waking on a frigid November morning that Ian Harvey, an MP and Parliamentary Undersecretary of State had been arrested for sodomy in the bushes of St James Park with a 19 year old soldier, former Prime Minister Churchill was quoted having said, “And to think, on the coldest day of the year? It makes you proud to be British.”