Showing posts with label Lily Tomlin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lily Tomlin. Show all posts

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Quotes - Favorites

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of
opinion our adversaries are insane."
- Mark Twain

Never interrupt your enemy
when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte


"The trouble with the rat race is that
even if you win, you're still a rat."
- Lily Tomlin


Words ought to be a little wild for
they are the assaults of thought on
the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes

Paucis verbis, quid est deconstructionismus?
What, in a nutshell, is deconstructionism?

There is nothing new under the sun but there
are lots of old things we don't know.
- Ambrose Bierce

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotes

Ninety Percent of life is
miserable-if you're lucky.
- Eric Marcus

Things are going to get a lot
worse before they get worse.
- Lily Tomlin


"I quit therapy because my analyst was
trying to help me behind my back."
- Richard Lewis

"The only athletic sport I ever
mastered was backgammon."
- Douglas William Jerrold

"Rock journalism is people who can't
write interviewing people who can't
talk for people who can't read."
- Frank Zappa

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life."
- Charles Darwin

Saturday, January 03, 2009

Quotes

"The meek shall inherit the Earth,
but not its mineral rights."
- J. Paul Getty

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms
with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
- Samuel Butler

"I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I
DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER."
- Groucho Marx

"This President is going to
lead us out of this recovery."
- Dan Quayle

"Why isn't there a special name
for the tops of your feet?"
- Lily Tomlin

"Life is a succession of moments,
to live each one is to succeed."
- Corita Kent

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Quotes

"Lawyers, I suppose,
were children once."
- Charles Lamb

"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country
are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the
other lousy two percent that get all the publicity.
But then--we elected them."
- Lily Tomlin

"If you are a dog and your owner suggests that
you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail."
- Fran Lebowitz

"Never go to bed mad.
Stay up and fight."
- Phyllis Diller

"The purpose of life
is a life of purpose."
- Robert Byrne

"Prediction is very difficult, especially
if it's about the future."
- Niels Bohr