Showing posts with label Redd Foxx. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Redd Foxx. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2009

Quotaria

"I can't understand it. I can't
even understand the people who
can understand it."
- Queen Juliana

"You can pretend to be serious; you
can't pretend to be witty."
Sacha Guitry

"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced,
not because it has been sober, responsible,
and cautious, but because it has been playful,
rebellious, and immature."
- Tom Robbins


A girl's legs are her best friends...
but even the best of friends must part.
- Redd Foxx

This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth?
I'm coming to join ya, honey!
- Redd Foxx

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as
a belief on the part of one friend
that he is superior to the other.
- Honore de Balzac

Monday, March 02, 2009

Quotes

"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder
or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred
from talking of his own dear person."
- Joseph Addison

Beauty may be skin deep, but
ugly goes clear to the bone.
- Redd Foxx

There is no doubt that the first requirement
for a composer is to be dead.
- Arthur Honegger

Those who dream by day are cognizant
of many things which escape those who
dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe

A good listener is a good
talker with a sore throat.
- Katharine Whitehorn

Where lipstick is concerned, the important
thing is not color, but to accept God's final
word on where your lips end.
- Jerry Seinfeld

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Quotaria

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday,
lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
- Redd Foxx

He who does not punish evil,
commands it to be done.
- Leonardo da Vinci

CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a
fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but
refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
- Arthur C. Clarke

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you
get to go into the private world of real creeps
without having to smell them.
- Penn Jillette

"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
- John N. Mitchell

"Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?"
- Artemus Ward