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Quotations Part B

If you decide to play the quote game,   good luck and begin here:

 

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
—Rabindranath Tagore

Example of a syllogism:
       I'm a nobody.
       Nobody is perfect.
       Therefore I am perfect.
—Anonymous

Please Lord,   let me prove that winning the lottery won't spoil me.
—Anonymous

A job worth doing is worth complaining about.
—Anonymous

Somebody told me how frightening it was how much topsoil we are losing each year,
but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.
—Jack Handey,   Deep Thoughts

Save a tree:   Eat a beaver.
—Bumper Sticker

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface
attached to the end of a long stick.
—Jack Handey,   Deep Thoughts

He's dead, Jim.   You grab his wallet,   I’ll grab his tricorder.
—Bones

No, Groucho is not my real name.   I’m breaking it in for a friend.
—Groucho Marx   ( 1890 - 1977 )

We used to laugh at Grandpa when he'd head off and go fishing.
But we wouldn't be laughing that evening when he'd come back with
some whore he picked up in town.
—Jack Handey,   Deep Thoughts

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
—Jessamyn West

The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body.
This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.
—Anonymous

History is a vast early warning system.
—Norman Cousins   ( 1915 - 1990 )

When the chips are down,   the buffalo is empty.
—Indian ( or maybe cowboy ) proverb

I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents
become better people as a result of practicing it.
—Joe Mullally

A different language is a different vision of life.
—Federico Fellini   ( 1920 - 1993 )

Have you ever noticed how nothing is impossible for those who don't have to do it ?
—Anonymous

How can I lose to such an idiot ?
—shouted out by chess master Aaron Nimzovich   ( 1886-1935 )

When you die,   if you go somewhere where they ask you a bunch of questions about
your life and what you learned and all,   I think a good way to get out of it is just to say,
"No speaka English."
—Jack Handey,   Deep Thoughts

Love is friendship set on fire.
—Jeremy Taylor

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.
—Albert Schweitzer   ( 1875 - 1965 )

I used up all my sick days,   so I'm calling in dead.
—Anonymous

I would have been your father but the guy in front of me had exact change
—Anonymous

I said that if people tell you your mother is not prime minister anymore,
you just turn around and say,
"So what ?   How often has your mother been prime minister ?"
—Ousted Pakistani leader   Benazir Bhutto
    recounting advice she gave her children

George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill:
       Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere.
       Come and bring a friend   -   if you have one.
Churchill’s reply:
       Impossible to be present for the first performance.
       Will attend second   -   if there is one.

Enjoy the little things,   for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
—Robert Brault

 

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