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Saturday 2 August 2014

QUOTATIONS TO BRIGHTEN ANY WEEKEND -6-



This week I am continuing with the dictionary of alternative meanings and who quoted them.



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Committee: A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours.
(Milton Berle, 20th century US comedian)

Conclusion: A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.
(Arthur Bloch, 20th century US writer)

Conference: A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
(Fred Allen)

Confidence:  Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.
(Dr L Binder, 19th century US historian)

Conscience:  Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking.
(H L Mencken, 20th century US humorist and author)

Cult: A cult is a religion with no political power.
(Tom Wolfe, 2oth century US author)

Cult: It just means not enough people to make a minority.
(Robert  Altman, 20th century US film director)

Cynic:  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
(Ambrose Bierce)

Cynic: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
(Oscar Wilde)

Dancing: Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
(Anonymous)

Debacle: Defeat at cricket and tennis.
(J B Morton, alias 20th century humorist 'Beachcomber')

Democracy: Democracy is a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
(H L Mencken)

Diagnosis:  The physician's art of determining the condition of the patients purse in order to find out how sick to make him.
(Ambrose Bierce)

Diplomat: A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
(Robert Frost)

Economy: Cutting down other people's wages.
(J B Morton)

Editor:  An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.
(Adlai Stevenson, US politician, 1900-1965)

Egotist:  A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
(Ambrose Bierce)

Epigram: Any sentence spoken by anybody who is in the public eye at the moment.
(J B Morton)

Epitaph: A belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been prematurely been discontinued.
(Irwin S Cobb, 20th century US writer)

Epitaph: A monumental inscription designed to remind the deceased of what he might have been if he had had the will and the opportunity.
(Ambrose Bierce)

Expert:  An expert is a man who knows more and more about less  and less, and everything about nothing.
(Nicholas Murray Butler, US educator, 1862-1947)



That's shallot folks for this week.

Please keep your quotes coming:

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. . . . and finally please stop by at Eva's for her Weekend Silliness feature HERE





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26 comments:

  1. Stop! Let me catch my breath!!! LOL! Eddie!

    ALOHA from Honolulu
    ComfortSpiral
    =^..^= . <3

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    1. Gosh Cloudia . . . . you were quick . . . lol
      Great to see you ~ hugs, Eddie :)

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  2. The expert is very true
    and the diagnosis for most drs. is 100% what comes due
    Just so they can charge you up the ass
    And stick things up there too to take a pass lol

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    1. Of one thing with you I will agree
      I'll stay away from your GP
      Not having an inkling to race
      To have him mess around that place.
      lol

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  3. the worship of jackals by jackasses.....hahaha that was worth it right there...
    i hope you have an amazing weekend

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    1. LOL . . . . yes it is extremely funny . . . :)

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  5. I like the epitaph one. My old Granny (silly old bat!) used to say that "the cemetery is full of indispensable people".

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    1. Hi Keith - yes that was a funny two! . . . lol
      Aw your poor Granny - I am sure she was certainly not that, but loved her quote . . . so was she Granny Smith? . . . lol

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    2. No, she was Granny Henton, and she wasn't so bad, except when she smacked me round the head and made me go clean out the pig sty.

      And I wasn't referring to my bedroom!

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    3. I'll take your word for it . . . . . lol

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  6. The definition of "conference" is hysterical!

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    1. lol . . . . I can just see your highly infectious laugh. Conferences will never quite be the same again will they? . . . . :)

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  7. All are good but this one was priceless: Diplomat: A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. (Robert Frost)

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    1. So, are you are good diplomat, Stephen? . . . . .lol

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  8. Hi Eddie - did you really need to drink while you tiped them up .. shallot for you too ..

    But seriously these are great - honestly so true too .. though I don't like to think along those thoughts! Stephen's quote about a diplomat .. is a good one too ..

    Cheers Hilary

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    1. You'd have to laugh, Hilary!
      I had to type most of the quotes into blogger twice! I am trying to think of a suitable quote for blogger but it would be unprintable. First time it refused to auto-save and I lost the lot!! The air was blue I can tell you! I will save manually from now on. Plus all the problems I am having commenting!!

      Yes I have many more quotes and look forward to posting them . . . . . :) Cheers, Eddie

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  9. Some of these are really bizzard Eddie!

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    1. Thank you Gloria - yes some are quite bizzare . . . . . lol . . .:)

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    1. Thanks Mary (Other) . . . .love doing these . . . . :)

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  11. I chose the diplomat one as my favourite this week Eddie!

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    1. Hi Amy, glad you enjoyed your trip to the States.
      Yes the diplomat one is well worth learning for us gents . . . . :) x

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  12. Fun post and a great shot. Carver, ABCW-Team

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