To get 2008 under way, anchors aweigh, the Annual Ship slipping its slip, how about sharing some of your favorite pithy remarks? Extra credit for stringing (semi?)-related topics. Thus: Lady Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I should poison your tea!" Winston Churchill: "Madam, if you were my wife, I should drink it." Which might lead to: Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth. - Alexander Pushkin
So.... here's a start:
We would rather speak ill of ourselves, than not speak of ourselves at all. -- La Rochefoucauld
So.... here's a start:
We would rather speak ill of ourselves, than not speak of ourselves at all. -- La Rochefoucauld
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Re: Aphorisms
Wed, January 9, 2008 - 10:19 PM"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
Oscar Wilde
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Thu, January 10, 2008 - 4:49 AM"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
Oscar Wilde
B barbarism
C civilisation
D decadence
What a... came before barbarism and what e... will follow decadence?
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Re: Aphorisms
Wed, January 16, 2008 - 10:30 AMhave I mentioned lately that I just love this tribe?
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Wed, January 16, 2008 - 10:36 AM"If nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture"-oscar wilde -
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Wed, January 30, 2008 - 3:56 PMor toilets (where would could I close the door and read in silence?) -
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Re: Aphorisms
Wed, January 30, 2008 - 4:13 PMtoilets are like medicine? or sex?
(Excuse me, I'll just close the door again and leave you to your reading...)
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Thu, January 10, 2008 - 11:09 AM"Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language." - Oscar Wilde -
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Thu, January 10, 2008 - 1:55 PM"If you see the teeth of the lion, do not think that the lion is smiling to you." - Al-Mutanabbi
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Re: Aphorisms
Sun, January 13, 2008 - 8:34 PMWe promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Mon, January 14, 2008 - 7:55 PMMy favorite: How many years after the bard....Damn wit
www.brainyquote.com/quotes/a...ilde.html
better to be a damn wit than a dim wit RMRB
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Re: Aphorisms
Sun, March 30, 2008 - 11:57 PM>"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
From Mr. Wilde, I think that is actually a compliment.
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Fri, January 11, 2008 - 5:28 PM"The difference between culture and anorexia is a light and an ultra-light"
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Sat, January 12, 2008 - 12:43 PM"Where's MY sense of entitlement?"
Me, to my shrink, 2007 -
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Sat, January 12, 2008 - 8:30 PMman is least himself when he talks in his own person.
give him a mask and he will tell the truth
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Re: Aphorisms
Sun, January 13, 2008 - 9:24 AM"If he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword, then doesn't it follow that he who lives by the pen should die sooner?"
-T. Drapier Swift
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So far so good!
Thu, January 17, 2008 - 1:30 PMSome very piquant observations so far! Thanks for contributing your faves, and may we find many more.
- We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. – Harold Nicolson
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More aphorisms???
Wed, January 30, 2008 - 3:17 PMThe aphoristic contributions seem to be drying up.... so I thought I'd offer one about sex. Sex seems, for some reason, to be of perennial interest. Any other sexual witticisms spring to mind?
- Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then once every three or four days until the condition clears. – Peter DeVries -
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Re: More aphorisms???
Wed, January 30, 2008 - 4:13 PMBetter a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Okay, so it's not sex...
Sappho...How Love, the limb-loosener, sweeps me a way...
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Re: More aphorisms???
Wed, January 30, 2008 - 5:40 PM"Life is a glorious cycle of song,
a medley of extemporanea;
and love is a thing that can never go wrong,
and I am Marie of Roumania."
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Re: More aphorisms???
Wed, January 30, 2008 - 6:10 PMI think this is Dorothy Parker. Something along the lines of,
"If all the girls in Hollywood were laid end to end...
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Wed, January 30, 2008 - 6:47 PM
"Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live."
-- Dorothy Parker
"What a lot of sex you must have gone without to think of such things."
-- Alasdair Gray
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Re: More aphorisms???
Wed, January 30, 2008 - 7:16 PMwe could just do a Dorothy Parker thread:
"I named my pet canary Onan, because he spills his seed upon the ground.'
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Re: More aphorisms???
Wed, January 30, 2008 - 5:51 PMWell it doesn't HAVE to be about sex to be interesting. (I don't think, anyway.)
The Sappho is quite beautiful.
Here's a related one:
- Love wanders about through the senses, and then it storms the soul with all its powers. -- Mechtild of Magdeburg -
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Re: More aphorisms???
Thu, January 31, 2008 - 2:24 AM"Love is an exploding cigar that we willingly smoke." —Lynda Barry -
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Thu, January 31, 2008 - 8:25 AMDidn't Bush say he never inhaled??? -
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Thu, January 31, 2008 - 8:41 AMDidn't Dorothy say:
"You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think?" -
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Thu, January 31, 2008 - 6:33 PM"You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think?"
4 out of 5 landscape architects agree
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Thu, January 31, 2008 - 8:24 AMWith a name like Mechtild, you might need such a beautiful quote!
Petronius: Beauty and intelligence in one are rare.
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Re: More aphorisms???
Sat, February 2, 2008 - 8:49 AMThe difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
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VALENTINE APHORISMS!
Wed, February 13, 2008 - 10:43 PMHer kisses left something to be desired -- the rest of her.
Love and a cough cannot be hidden. - George Herbert
Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex brings up some pretty good questions. - Woody Allen
My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good spouse, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved. - George Sand
And for those of us unable to spend Valentine's Day with our sweeties: Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a fire. - La Rochefoucauld -
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Re: VALENTINE APHORISMS!
Thu, February 14, 2008 - 11:38 PMhuzzah for the woody allen reference.
got to admit he's the wilde or parker of our time...
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Re: Aphorisms
Sun, February 17, 2008 - 7:48 PMWhen a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together -- Wham -- like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.
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Sun, February 17, 2008 - 10:27 PM
"Fat is what allows a man and a woman to be very, very close, and not
hurt each other."
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Mon, February 18, 2008 - 6:41 PM"Fat is what allows a man and a woman to be very, very close, and not
hurt each other."
-- Garrison Keilor
And from another great American humorist, Dave Barry:
Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.
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Mon, February 18, 2008 - 6:38 PMRE: Miss Ritter's line:
When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together -- Wham -- like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.
--- Are we talking "Rear Window" here?
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Re: Aphorisms
Mon, February 18, 2008 - 12:42 AMI must follow the people. Am I not their leader? - Benjamin Disraeli -
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Mon, February 18, 2008 - 1:39 AMBearing yet not possessing,
Working yet not taking credit,
Leading yet not dominating,
This is the Primal Virtue.
—Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
More words count less.
—Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
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Mon, February 18, 2008 - 6:44 PMWhile we're here, lest we congratulate ourselves too much, let's not forget:
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. ~ Somerset Maugham -
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Wed, February 20, 2008 - 12:28 AMOr ... "A witty saying proves nothing." -Voltaire -
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Thu, February 21, 2008 - 8:34 PMOh Sex again:
Well I don't know where I heard it but it stuck my fave
sex one is a Tallulah Bankhead aphorism:
"I am as pure as the driven slush."
(Does anyone remember Tallulah another fine Aquarian
woman.)
KUDDOS for Woody Allen. NY really builds their men.
My own is:
"Even my Siamese is often clumsy" (he won't look at me right now.) PLD -
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Fri, February 22, 2008 - 11:01 AMOh and 6 month ago penned
"Thinking outside the box is a good thing, unless it's the litterbox."
Then it becomes Quarantino time.
Bad kitty!
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Re: Aphorisms
Mon, February 25, 2008 - 1:03 PMAnd this is nice from another avatar of bold female sexuality:
"WHEN CHOOSING BETWEEN TWO EVILS, I ALWAYS LIKE TO TRY ONE I'VE NEVER TRIED BEFORE." - MAE WEST
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Cher on men
Mon, February 25, 2008 - 1:04 PM"THE PROBLEM WITH WOMEN IS THAT THEY GET ALL WORRIED AND CRAZY ABOUT NOTHING AND THEN THEY MARRY HIM." - CHER -
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On being single
Mon, February 25, 2008 - 1:05 PM"I think.. therefore I'm single." - Liz Winston
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