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QUESTIONS
The
‘silly question’ is the first intimation of some totally new
development.
-
Alfred North Whitehead.
People
who point at their wrist while asking for the time.... I know
where my watch is pal, where the fuck is yours? Do I point at my
crotch when I ask where the toilet is?
-
Billy Connolly.
Of
what question is the following the answer: ‘9W’?
The
question: Tell me, is that Richard Wagner with a ‘V’?
If
Wiley E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why
didn't he just buy dinner?
QUOTATIONS
A book
of quotations can never be complete.
-
Robert M. Hamilton.
Collecting quotations is an insidious, even embarrassing habit,
like ragpicking or hoarding rocks or trying on other people's
laundry. I got into it originally while trying to break an
addiction to candy. I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with
quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth.
-
Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said.
The
wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved
by quotations.
-
Isaac Disraeli.
I hate
quotations. Tell me what you know.
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The
ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- W.
Somerset Maugham.
It is
a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
-
Winston Churchill.
Someone might say of me that I have only made a bouquet of other
people's flowers here, having supplied nothing of my own but the
thread to bind them.
-
Michel de Montaigne
The
wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved
into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and
quotations.
-
William Feather.
I
might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of
quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any
of the damned things.
-
Dorothy Parker.
It is
better to be quotable than to be honest.
- Tom
Stoppard.
He
wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself
in the purple of Emperors.
-
Rudyard Kipling.
When
in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw or Oscar Wilde.
-
Nigel Rees.
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