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Fun Quotes - Page 48

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?

"Auld Lang Syne" l. 1 (1796). JamesWatson, Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems (1711), contains a ballad beginning: "Should old acquaintance be forgot, / And never thought upon, / The flames of love extinguished, / And freely past and gone? / Is thy kind heart now grown so cold / In that loving breast of thine, / That thou canst never once reflect / On old-long-syne?"

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Quoted in George Bernard Shaw, Letter to Ellen Terry, 25 Sept. 1896 See Wilde 39

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.684, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

Malcolm Lowry, Sherrill Grace (1995). “Sursum corda!”

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

In Joseph Weintraub Peel Me a Grape (1975) p. 47

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

"Skynyrd, Sabbath, Blondie join rock's elite". The Associated Press, www.today.com. March 14, 2006.

What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?

"George Carlin: Jammin' in New York", www.imdb.com. 1992.

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

"12 Inspiring Graduation Speeches by Amazing Women" by Kelly Conniff, time.com. May 18, 2014.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.83, Pan Macmillan