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I was really bored today, so I filled out a funky survey thingy,and on it, it asked a favorite quote. Well, I knew mine, but I didn't know who said it, so I googled it, and found this site full of quotes. So I started looking around. The following are the ones I found amusing.
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
^ Along the same lines as the above. My dad said that, when posed with half a glass of milk and the question: is it half empty, or half full, that I would respond with: who drank my milk?
"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists."
Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Journal of a Character, 1931
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983), quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."
Bill Lyon
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line
"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."
Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?"
Dick Clark - Side note about Dick Clark-- I think he's secretly the devil. Or has a serious case of Peter-Pan-Syndrome.
"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
"My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years."
Cathy Ladman
"Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them."
Rita Rudner
"The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy."
Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?"
Scott Adams (1957 - )
"Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
And that's my two cents for the day.
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
^ Along the same lines as the above. My dad said that, when posed with half a glass of milk and the question: is it half empty, or half full, that I would respond with: who drank my milk?
"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists."
Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Journal of a Character, 1931
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983), quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."
Bill Lyon
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line
"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."
Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?"
Dick Clark - Side note about Dick Clark-- I think he's secretly the devil. Or has a serious case of Peter-Pan-Syndrome.
"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
"My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years."
Cathy Ladman
"Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them."
Rita Rudner
"The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy."
Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?"
Scott Adams (1957 - )
"Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
And that's my two cents for the day.