Famous quotes...

[Aemeth]

You can be moral and not alive.

[raum]

The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own;
it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own. - Michelle Montaigne (from the french)

[CS]

"I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates who said, 'I drank what?'"

- Chris Knight

[schmicko]

"The Gods we worship etch themselves into the lines of our faces"

I don't know who said it originally but I've always liked it.


"Next time I'm just gonna find a woman I don't like, and buy her a house"

Rod Stewart

[deepdiver32073]

If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.

Timothy Leary - Changing My Mind, Among Others (1982)

[schmicko]

Noel Coward Quotations

Coward's opening night telegram to old friend Gertrude Lawrence:

"A WARM HAND ON YOUR OPENING."

When told a particularly stupid acquaintance had blown his brains out:

"HE MUST HAVE BEEN AN INCREDIBLY GOOD SHOT."

[raum]

"you can spank your girlfriend, and you can spank your monkey, but you can't spank your girlfriend's monkey."

- yours truly

[CS]

"Two pink cheese green ghosts!"

-My Uncle Francisco

[schmicko]

"A hard man is good to find"

Mae West

[fnln00]

I've always liked Churchill's "If you're going through hell, keep going"