What are your favorite quotes?

[timoc]

In those long ago days before spin dryers, my Gran used to use a mangle in the back garden.

I used to help her and she would say, "Tim, don't stand too close when you turn the handle or you'll have a table-tennis bat to pee with."

 

[IrishEyes]

Bad Choices make Great Stories

 

[Medusa]

Walk it off. You'll be fine.

Love this one.

 

[Rich]

He's strong enough to squeeze the truth out of a politician.

 

[MoBeans]

"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter"

 

[Veronica]

If liars pants really did catch on fire the news would be a lot more fun.

 

[Olivia]

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
lt sings because it has a song.
Chinese Proverb

 

[CaliS]

Walk it off. You'll be fine.

Love this one.

Someone once said this to me, when I had a crick in my ankle ... I tried it and ended up on crutches for weeks!
Needless to say - I never tried "walking it off" ever again.

 

[Medusa]

Someone once said this to me, when I had a crick in my ankle ... I tried it and ended up on crutches for weeks!
Needless to say - I never tried "walking it off" ever again.

I've always understood it to be figurative.

 

[AnneTeak]

Launched, but not anchored

It was my mother's high school graduating class' motto.

 

[oscash]

He's as awkward as a one-armed paper hanger.

 

[Veronica]

Duct tape is like the force.
It has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together.

Hold onto your fork. The best is yet to come.

OH CRAP! Those are my monkeys!

 

[timoc]

It takes more than a young rooster like you to cock an old hen like me. (Autie Joan's favourite saying)

 

[Veronica]

It takes more than a young rooster like you to cock an old hen like me. (Autie Joan's favourite saying)

No matter how loudly the rooster may crow, its the hen who delivers the goods. #sorry #not sorry

 

[OldOld]

My favorite quote: "I am who I am."

 

[Rindee]

"Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything." Gregg Easterbrook
"Torture me, and I'll confess to anything", (well, eventually I will lol!). Rindee

 

[MoBeans]

The best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else.

 

[oscash]

My father used to always tell us as youngsters: "Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you what you are".

 

[OldOld]

My father used to always tell us as youngsters: "Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you what you are".

A proper quote for that is:
Birds of a feather flock together

 

[Veronica]

Saw this one on one of those big green freeway signs once.

Please buckle up. It makes it harder for the aliens to snatch you from your car.

 

[gruntlabor]

A proper quote for that is:
Birds of a feather flock together

Oscash's dad brought it to a more personal level, and also avoided a cliche

 

[officerripley]

Saw this one on one of those big green freeway signs once.

Please buckle up. It makes it harder for the aliens to snatch you from your car.

That's a good one. I saw a bumper sticker on a car once that I hated; it said "When the aliens land, they're gonna eat all you fat people first." Sometimes I wish I could've followed that car and put on top of that mean sticker one that said, "When the famines hit--which let's face it, is more likely than aliens landing--all you skinny people are gonna die first." But that would be too long for a bumper sticker, lol.

 

[Veronica]

That's a good one. I saw a bumper sticker on a car once that I hated; it said "When the aliens land, they're gonna eat all you fat people first." Sometimes I wish I could've followed that car and put on top of that mean sticker one that said, "When the famines hit--which let's face it, is more likely than aliens landing--all you skinny people are gonna die first." But that would be too long for a bumper sticker, lol.

Made me remember this episode of Twilight Zone.

 

[gruntlabor]

That's a good one. I saw a bumper sticker on a car once that I hated; it said "When the aliens land, they're gonna eat all you fat people first." Sometimes I wish I could've followed that car and put on top of that mean sticker one that said, "When the famines hit--which let's face it, is more likely than aliens landing--all you skinny people are gonna die first." But that would be too long for a bumper sticker, lol.

IF you were to use a bumper sticker: WHEN THE FAMINE HITS ALL YOU SKINNY PEOPLE ARE GONNA DIE FIRST, you won't be reprimanding the person who offended you, you will simply be wishing ill on all skinny people, giving skinny people reason to dislike fat people even more. A vicious circle.
Let karma have it, or
Vengeance is mine saith the Lord. --Deuteronomy 32:35

 

[Manatee]

A destitute snake hasn't got a pit to hiss in.