I Just Stumbled Upon This Quotation

Discussion in 'The Chatterbox' started by mvd, Jan 8, 2019.

  1. Shaver X

    Shaver X Well-Known Member

    I shave, therefore I am.
    - Rene Descartes

    A wetshaver and his money are soon parted.
    - Aesop
     
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  2. Sara-s

    Sara-s This Pun for Hire

    "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
     
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  3. Paul Turner

    Paul Turner outside the quote(s) now

    Our 16th POTUS gets the credit for that baby.
     
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  4. Paul Turner

    Paul Turner outside the quote(s) now

    We have a guy at the gym who opens his mouth all over the place. He removes my doubt. (He isn't a bad guy, you just want him to cut down on his "socializing").
     
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  5. oscar11

    oscar11 Well-Known Member

    When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds. Will Rogers
     
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  6. Paul Turner

    Paul Turner outside the quote(s) now

    Didn't someone make a flub once by saying "What a terrible thing it is to lose one's mind"?
     
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  7. MR41

    MR41 Well-Known Member

    “ If all you do is look out for yourself, eventually you’ll be the only one looking out for yourself.”
     
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  8. macaronus

    macaronus Sir Nice-a-Lot

    A good reputation comes on foot and leaves on horseback


    Better for the children to have wet feet than for the father to have a dry throat (my Dad)


    The ships hung in the air much the same way that bricks don't (Douglas Adams)


    She is one of the least benightedly unintelligent life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting (Douglas Adams)


    It can only go wrong (a mate of mine)
     
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  9. Preacher

    Preacher Well-Known Member

    From the movie Posse (a western)
    ...son I been your age. You ain't never been mine.
     
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  10. Sara-s

    Sara-s This Pun for Hire

    “We’ll always have Paris.” From “Casablanca”
     
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  11. Preacher

    Preacher Well-Known Member

    "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power."

    This quote is attributed to Abraham Lincoln but was probably something that was said about him rather than by him.
     
  12. Terry

    Terry Tool Admirer

    Don't know if I heard this or it was somthing I had decided....

    The problem is people are raising childern, when they should be raising adults.

    tp
     
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  13. Hembree

    Hembree Not as pretty smelling

    So true!
     
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  14. DesertTime

    DesertTime Well-Known Member

    One of literature's great quote (IMO):

    Let Sporus tremble -- "What that thing of silk,
    Sporus, that mere curd of ass's milk?...

    --Alexander Pope, "Espistle to Dr Arbuthnot"
     
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