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
Malcolm Lowry, Sherrill Grace (1995). “Sursum corda!”
In Joseph Weintraub Peel Me a Grape (1975) p. 47
The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
In John Cohen Essential Lenny Bruce (1970) p. 59
I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.
Recalled on his death, 4 Jun1971.
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
"Computerworld". Book by Douglas Engelbart, p.42, June 22, 1992.
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