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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)
Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 05-02-2008 09:48 AM
Rated G Jokester
Closer to Home Quotes:
His mind sees things differently than we do -- to our amazement and amusement. Here are some more of his gems!!!!!!!
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back.
Half the people you know are below average.
99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.
OK, so what's the speed of dark?
How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
If everything seems to be going well you have obviously overlooked something.
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.
I intend to live forever -- so far, so good.
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film!!!!!!!!
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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)
Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 11-25-2008 08:47 AM
Rated PG ![[Smile]](smile.gif) Jokester
Famous Last Words
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
Francisco ("Pancho") Villa
I'll be in Hell before you start breakfast!
"Black Jack" Ketchum, notorious train robber
Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
Voltaire (attributed), when asked by a priest to renounce Satan
Get these fucking nuns away from me.
Norman Douglas
Don't worry...it's not loaded...
Terry Kath, rock musician in the band Chicago Transit Authority as he put the gun he was cleaning to his head and pulled the trigger.
Is someone hurt?
Robert F. Kennedy, to his wife directly after he was shot and seconds before he fell into a coma.
Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!
Groucho Marx
Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!
Karl Marx, asked by his housekeeper what his last words were
I have a terrific headache.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage?
I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.
Richard Feynman
Drink to me!
Pablo Picasso
I have not told half of what I saw.
Marco Polo, Venetian traveler and writer
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking towards me, without hurrying.
Jean Cocteau
Dammit... Don't you dare ask God to help me.
Joan Crawford. This comment was directed towards her housekeeper who began to pray aloud.
Lord help my poor soul
Edgar Allan Poe
Thank God. I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.
Del Close, improviser, teacher and comedian, died 1999
I have tried so hard to do right.
Grover Cleveland, US President, died 1908
I don't have the passion anymore, and so remember, it's better to burn out than to fade away. Peace, Love, Empathy. Kurt Cobain.
Kurt Cobain (in his suicide note), Lead singer for American grunge band Nirvana, referencing a song by Neil Young.
In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts and in living color, you are going to see another first -- attempted suicide.
30-year-old anchorwoman Christine Chubbuck, who, on July 15, 1974, during technical difficulties during a broadcast, said these words on-air before producing a revolver and shooting herself in the head. She was pronounced dead in hospital fourteen hours later.
It's very beautiful over there.
Thomas Edison
Now why did I do that?
General William Erskine, after he jumped from a window in Lisbon, Portugal in 1813.
Don't worry, relax!
Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minister, to his security staff minutes before being killed by a suicide bomber attack.
No! I didn't come here to make a speech. I came here to die.
Crawford Goldsby, aka Cherokee Bill, when asked if he had anything to say before he was hanged.
I really need a therapist'
Christopher Grace, an actor who killed himself during a matinee performance of Greece
I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, you are only going to kill a man.
Che Guevara
I'm tired of fighting.
Harry Houdini
I see black light.
Victor Hugo
LSD, 100 micrograms I.M.
Aldous Huxley To his wife. She obliged and he was injected twice before his death.
Let me go to the Father's house
Pope John Paul II
I'm bored with it all.
Winston Churchill, before slipping into a coma and dying nine days later.
I know not what tomorrow will bring.
Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet
Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.
Mother Teresa
Don't disturb my circles!
Archimedes
I hope the exit is joyful and hope never to return.
Frida Kahlo
Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck. (Suicide note)
George Sanders, Actor
They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
General John Sedgwick, Union Commander in the U.S. Civil War, who was hit by sniper fire a few minutes after saying it
Dying is easy, comedy is hard.
George Bernard Shaw
I'm losing.
Frank Sinatra
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius. Will you remember to pay the debt?
Socrates
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
Oscar Wilde
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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)
Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 11-25-2008 08:53 AM
Rated G Jokester
Famous Misquotations
"Elementary, my dear Watson" - Sherlock Holmes
This phrase was never uttered by the character in any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's written works. Though "Elementary," and "...my dear Watson." both do appear near the beginning of The Crooked Man (1893), it is the "...my dear Watson" that appears first, and "Elementary" is the succinct reply to Watson's exclamation a few lines of dialogue later. This is the closest these four immortal words ever appear together in the canon.
The association of this quote with the Sherlock Holmes character likely comes from the closing lines of the 1929 film The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates
Often attributed to Gates in 1981. Gates considered the IBM PC's 640kB program memory a significant breakthrough over 8-bit systems that were typically limited to 64kB, but he has denied making this remark. "I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time... I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again."
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong
Possible correct quote: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind". Some say this was due to a break in the radio transmission between the moon lander and the command module. Although Armstrong claims to have said the correct version, everyone else heard the incorrect version. Armstrong himself was later unsure of whether he left out the crucial article "a". Without saying "a man" the incorrect version is contradictory, as "man" means "mankind". The quote was pointing out that a small step for a man represented tremendous progress for all people.
"The end justifies the means" – Machiavelli
Attributed to the political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli's work The Prince. The line is actually from a book in which a fictional Machiavelli is a character.
"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend me your ears." - William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
The quote is often attributed to Julius Caesar; it was actually said by the character Antony in the play. The next line "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him" makes it clear that Caesar is not the speaker.
"Play it again, Sam" - Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca)
Actual quote: "Play it Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'."
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." - Sigmund Freud
This quote is often attributed to Sigmund Freud to show that even that a famous psychoanalyst can admit that not everything has a profound meaning; However, no variation of this quote ever appears in his writings. It was probably falsely attributed by a journalist, long after Freud's death.
"Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains." - Winston Churchill
Neither this nor any of its common variations were ever said by Winston Churchill.
"My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." - Forrest Gump
This famous line is spoken by Tom Hanks, playing Forrest Gump in the 1994 film of the same name. However, in Winston Groom's original novel, the "box of chocolates" line is rather different: "Bein' an idiot ain't no box of chocolates." Groom reportedly dislikes the change.
"The minority is always in the right. The majority is always in the wrong." - Mark Twain
Attributed to Twain, but never sourced.
"Evil is the absence of God." - Albert Einstein
This statement has been attributed to others before Einstein; its first attribution to Einstein appears to have been in an email story that began circulating in 2004.
"I am the devil, and I have come to do the devil's work." - Charles Manson
Usually misattributed to Charles Manson, in regard to the murders at the home of Sharon Tate. Manson was not present at any of the murders known to have been committed by his followers. The actual phrase, though not as said above, was uttered by Charles "Tex" Watson to Voityck Frykowski.
"God helps those who help themselves"
The saying is not biblical, although it is an ancient proverb that shows up in the literature of many cultures, including a 1736 edition of Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac.
"I have nothing to declare except my Genius." - Oscar Wilde
This is one of Wilde's most famous sayings, which he is supposed to have said while passing through a customs checkpoint in New York. However, there is no contemporary evidence that such words were ever uttered, and the first record of them is by Arthur Ransome in his 1912 book Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study.
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
As "quoted" by Steve Mirsky Scientific American (September 2002). Vol. 287, Iss. 3; pg. 102. This should hardly be taken as an authentication of the statement as actually Einstein's, as this is from a satirical piece, and Mirsky cites the "original source" as being a fictitious magazine.
"God made beer because he loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin
The quote, and its many variants, has been widely attributed to Franklin; however, there has never been an authoritative source for the quote, and research indicates that it is very likely a misquotation of Franklin's words regarding wine.
"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people." - Dan Quayle
U.S. Representative Claudine Schneider (RI) telling an admitted joke about Quayle
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." - Albert Einstein
Never said that, and is similar to a quote attributed to Mark Twain: "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education".
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