Famous Quotes

Just for fun...

>> I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered.
>>But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "no
>>good in a bed, but fine up against a wall". (Eleanor Roosevelt)
>>
>> The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and
>>a good ending and having the two as close together as possible.
>>(George Burns)
>>
>> Santa Claus has the right idea -- visit people only once a
>>year. (Victor Borge)
>>
>> Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a
>>misprint. (Mark Twain)
>>
>> What would men be without women? Scarce, mighty scarce.
>>(Mark Twain)
>>
>> My wife is a sex object -- every time I ask for sex, she
>>objects. (Les Dawson)
>>
>> 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.
>>(Groucho Marx)
>>
>> Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be
>>thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. (Charlotte
>>Whitton)
>>
>> My wife has a slight impediment in her speech -- every now
>>and then she stops to breathe. (Jimmy Durante)
>>
>> The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with
>>firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most anything. (Jilly
>>Cooper)
>>
>> I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. (Zsa
>>Zsa Gabor)
>>
>> Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four
>>essential food groups: Alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. (Alex
>>Levine)
>>
>> Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The
>>world owes you nothing. It was here first. (Mark Twain)
>>
>> My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would
>>stop dying.
>> (Ed Furgol)
>>
>> What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money. (Henny
>>Youngman)
>>
>> I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to
>>offer me the position. (Mark Twain)
>>
>> Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was 'shut up.' (Joe
>>Namath)
>>
>> I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm
>>very pleased to be anywhere. (George Burns)
>>
>> At my age flowers scare me. (George Burns)
>>
>> Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in
>>life. (Herbert Henry Asquith)
>>
>> The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly,
>>and lie about your age. (Lucille Ball)
>>
>> I don't feel old - in fact, I don't feel anything until
>>noon. Then it's time for my nap. (Bob Hope)
>>
>> A woman drove me to drink -- and I didn't even have the
>>courtesy to thank her. (W. C. Fields)
>>
>> It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I
>>can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. (George
>>Burns)
>>
>> I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
>>(Woody Allen)
>>
>> If only God would give me some sign... a clear sign! Like
>>making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. (Selections from
>>the Allen Notebooks, New Yorker)
>>
>> Another good thing about being poor is that when you are
>>seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in
>>order to gain control of your estate. (Woody Allen)
>>
>> If you want to make GOD Laugh, tell him your plans for the
>>future . (Woody Allen)
>>
>> Those are my principals, if you don't like them...... I have
>>others."
>> (Groucho Marx)
>>
>>
>>____________________________________________________

:)
Simon H
 
You can tell I'm in IT, can't you?? This one breaks me up every time I see it (about once every 3 months - Sanford appears to have a limited set of "quotable Quotes" ;) )

"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1-1/2 tons."
- Popular Mechanics, March 1949

Regards,
 
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole
relationships."
-- Sharon Stone


"My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's
reading."
-- Steve Jobs (Founder: Apple Computers)


"I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with "Guess" on it.
I said, "Thyroid problem?"
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger


"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch."
-- Jack Nicholson


"Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks, or where he lives,>but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is."
-- Barbara Bush (Former US First Lady)


"Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's
>genitals through his wallet."
-- Robin Williams


"Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself."
-- Roseanne


"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."
-- Billy Crystal


"According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful."
-- Robert De Niro


"There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?"
-- Dustin Hoffman


"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."
-- Rod Stewart

"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time."
-- Robin Williams
 
"Everything that can be invented has been invented" -- Charles Duell, Commissioner of the US Office of Patents, urging President William McKinley to abolish his office, 1899.


"I think there is a world market for about five computers" -- Thomas J. Watson, IBM chair, 1943


"Horses are here to stay. The automobile is only a novelty, a fad." -- The president, Michigan Savings Bank, 1903, advising Henry Ford's lawyer not to invest in the Ford Motor Co.


"640K (RAM) is enough for anyone."-- Bill Gates, Microsoft chair, 1981.


"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" -- Henry Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.


"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." -- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize winner in physics, 1920.


"The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who looks for a source of power in the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine." -- Lord Ernest Rutherford, British physicist who laid the groundwork for the development of nuclear physics and winner of Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908.


"Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value." -- Ferdinand Foch, French military commander, 1911.


"An amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one?" -- Rutherford Hayes, U.S. President, after participating in a trial telephone call between Washington and Philadelphia in 1876.


"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. " -- Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment, 1977


"Voice communication over wire, although technically possible, hardly seems a reliable means of conversing, and if it were, it is unlikely that the public would avail themselves of such a service" -- Boston Herald, 1891.


"Television won't hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon tire of staring at a box every night." -- Darryl Zanuck, head of 20th Century Fox, 1946.
 
Ah, there ye go, Jamie - that last lot are the same ones that Sanford uses. What's the source?

Some gems there too ;)

Regards,
 
Didn't Margaret Thatcher once say that "No woman shall be a Prime mInister of England in my lifetime"?

It may have been urban myth.
 
here is another,

"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it"

-George Bernard Shaw

talk about cynical :D
 
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