Quotes You Like

“Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

( 🙂 currently reading this book )

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H.G. Wells

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates

Patricia Routledge, who is best known for playing social climbing snob, Hyacinth Bucket - or Bouquet - in Keeping Up Appearances, was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in The Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.

"The Bouquet residence, the lady of the house speaking... No, you cannot have three of 22 and a portion of 19 with chips. This is not the Chinese takeaway. This is a private, slimline, pearl-white telephone with no oriental associations whatsoever..."

“The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found." - Ernest Hemingway

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. - Hannah Arendt

Originally posted by @torunn
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. - Hannah Arendt

“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
― Ann Landers

“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” - Auguste Rodin

"Whoever dies with the most debt wins"

-Whodey

Originally posted by @whodey
"Whoever dies with the most debt wins"

-Whodey

Whodey quotes don't count.

Originally posted by @chaney3
Whodey quotes don't count.

"Is what is" - anonymous ....












nah, I made it up

Originally posted by @karoly-aczel
"Is what is" - anonymous ....












nah, I made it up

Hippy Hindu quotes don't count either.

Originally posted by @chaney3
Hippy Hindu quotes don't count either.

From brother where art thou:

Pete: Wait a minute. Who elected you leader of this outfit?

Ulysses Everett McGill: Well Pete, I figured it should be the one with the capacity for abstract thought. But if that ain't the consensus view, then hell, let's put it to a vote.

Pete: Suits me. I'm voting for yours truly.

Ulysses Everett McGill: Well I'm voting for yours truly too.

[Everett and Pete look at Delmar for the deciding vote]

Delmar O'Donnell: Okay... I'm with you fellas.

If thou remember'st not the slightest folly
That ever love did make thee run into,
Thou hast not lov'd.

Act II, scene 4, line 34. - As You Like It, William Shakespeare