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Offline Serenity

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QUOTES WORTH QUOTING
« on: February 04, 2007, 14:15 »
QUOTES WORTH QUOTING:

 
 Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself ~~"Lillian, you should have remained a virgin."
-- Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)


I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: "No good in a bed, but fine against a wall."
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Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
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Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-- Socrates


I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
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My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
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I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.
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Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
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My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
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Money can't buy you happiness .. But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
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I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon.
Then it's time for my nap.
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I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
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We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.
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Don't worry about avoiding temptation.   . As you grow older, it will avoid you.
-- Winston Churchill


Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty .. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.
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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.
-- Billy Crystal


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If  it tastes good, spit it   out. 


Offline sam

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Re: QUOTES WORTH QUOTING
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2007, 17:10 »
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I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: "No good in a bed, but fine against a wall."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt


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Re: QUOTES WORTH QUOTING
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2007, 17:40 »

Don't worry about avoiding temptation.   . As you grow older, it will avoid you.
-- Winston Churchill

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Re: QUOTES WORTH QUOTING
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2007, 12:14 »
QUOTES WORTH QUOTING:
Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.
-- Victor Borge

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
-- Alex Levine

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Those who can make you believe absurdities,
can make you commit atrocities.

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Re: QUOTES WORTH QUOTING
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2011, 18:31 »
Samuel Johnson has the following definition of oats in his dictionary:

OATS. n.s. [?, Saxon] A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

 :england:
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is readily adopted.

(Schopenhauer, Die Kunst Recht zu Behalten)

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« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2011, 18:38 »
We should probably rename this THREADS WORTH RESURRECTING.  ;D
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« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2011, 20:07 »
I was just trying to add the post to an appropriate thread  o:) .  Even when I behave myself I still get accused of causing trouble!

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There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is readily adopted.

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« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2011, 20:17 »
 :laugh:
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« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2011, 22:11 »
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. WC FIELDS (1880-1946)

 
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« Reply #9 on: August 28, 2011, 22:23 »
Brilliant!  ;D

And yours was too, Gill.  ;D
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Re: QUOTES WORTH QUOTING
« Reply #10 on: August 29, 2011, 10:56 »
Nowadays, you'd have to add fried Mars bars to Scotland's diet...
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« Reply #11 on: August 29, 2011, 12:27 »
 :ack:
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« Reply #12 on: August 29, 2011, 12:50 »
I prefer fried haggis myself. :)
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« Reply #13 on: August 29, 2011, 13:02 »
:vomit:
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Re: QUOTES WORTH QUOTING
« Reply #14 on: August 29, 2011, 13:04 »
I really have to educate your pallet.  ;)
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