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Saturday 16 August 2014

QUOTATIONS TO BRIGHTEN ANY WEEKEND -8-


More Quotations

Another Weekend - already!



ABC Wednesday link
theme - E is for Entertaining Quotations






I'm including some gaffs at the end.


 . . . . and we start with the much debated topic, marriage:


Marriage: A community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making two in all.
(Ambrose Bierce)

Marriage:  A romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
(Anonymous)
He is too chicken to own up

Marriage: Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
(Joey Adams)

Marriage: Marriage is like a cage: one sees birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
(Michel de Montaigne, French writer, 1533-1592)

Memoirs:  When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad things you did do - that's memoirs.
(Will Rogers, 20th century US comedian)

Monogamy:  An obsolete word meaning a fidelity complex.
(J.B. Morton)

Moral Indignation: Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
(H.G.Wells)

Nation: is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours.
(Dean Inge, dean of St Paul's, London 1911-34)

Opera: Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back instead of bleeding, he sings.
(Ed Gardner, 20th century US comedian)

Optimist: An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.
(Don Marquis, 20th century US satirist)

Optimist: An optimist is always broke.
(Kin Hubbard)

Optimist: A man who is treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
(Walter Winchell)

Originality:  Originality is the fine art of remembering what you can hear and forgetting where you heard it.
(Laurence Peter, 20th century Canadian writer)

Pessimist: A pessimist is someone who, if he is in the bath, will not get out to answer the phone.
(Quentin Crisp)

Pessimist: The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole.
(Anonymous)



Now some bloomers, or bloopers:

'If' is a very large preposition. - John Major

I deny the allegations and defy the alligators! - Indicted Chicago Alderman

It's a conflict of parallels. - Alex Ferguson

I couldn't fail to agree with you less. - Fran O'Shea

That football tie is a potential potato skin. - Alan Hansen

I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No'  - Sir Richard Roche

You know what they say, don't get mad, get angry. - Edwina Currie

I drink like a chimney. - Alex Ferguson

I think they have misunderestimated me. - George W. Bush

When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible - George W Bush

(Gosh where does he get them?)




More next week
Enjoy your weekend
  



24 comments:

  1. Love the opera one! Lol!

    Do you call them bloomers there? We would say bloopers.

    First? Yes!

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    1. Yes were call the bloomers here . . . but I knew you called them bloopers too.
      What interesting differences there are between us. . . . . . :)

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    2. You didn't say anything about me being first again! Same prize as before? ha.

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    3. Well I was waiting for you to claim your prize . . . . . and of course it is me . . . . . .rofl
      Bet that made you laugh . . . . . :)

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  2. Poor George Bush...as soon as he opens his mouth...he puts his foot in it.
    BARRABOOM!
    Jane x

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    1. LOL . . . . there are enough of them for a book in itself but the one I like when he got to the White House he remarked,
      "It is White!" . . . . . rofl . . . .Eddie xx

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  3. I always enjoy your quotes Eddie! George Bush....what is there to say? lol

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    1. Thanks Michelle . . . always very nice to have you here . . . :)
      George Bush . . . Oh dear . . .but Dan Quayle as quite close . . . lol

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  4. Guess i'm a pessimist at my sea
    I'd like the phone ring free
    And I'd sure look for the hole
    And it wouldn't be that made by a mole lol

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    1. An optimist I am or really 'oughta'
      With glass half full, with lots of water
      I don't see it as half empty
      Lots and lots to drink in plenty . . . . lol

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  5. Nice quotes Eddie. It's amazing how many there are. Very interesting....Hope you have a grand weekend.

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    1. Thanks Linda - yes there are loads of them . . .
      Good weekend to you as well, thanks . . . . . :) Eddie

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  6. Socrates is reported to have said to a young man seeking advice on marriage: By all means marry; if you marry well you'll be happy, and if you marry poorly you'll become a philosopher.

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    1. Thanks Stephen and great Socrates quotation . . . :)

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  7. lovely to drop by and visit Eddie..its been a while...
    luv Saz x

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    1. Saz, what a wonderful surprise to see you here.
      Great memories of you and your lovely Mum, so sadly missed. . . . . . Eddie :)

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  8. You "engineered" a good route into ABC Wednesday! Great fun isn't it?
    Denise ABC Team

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    1. LOL . . . . .having a look round ABC Wed soon . . .. :)

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  9. Hi Eddie...
    I was young and irresponsible when I was young and irresponsible too!!
    Hahaha!
    Hope you had a great weekend....
    We had a cold soggy one :o(

    Cheers!
    Linda :o)

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    1. Most intriguing!! . . . . . now tell me more!! . . . hahaha
      Yes, nice weekend thanks . . . . I am looking after Peter a bit now and shall do so every week on Thurs and Fri from September. I have not lost my baby technique . . . lol
      Sorry your weather was pants as they say!!
      Cheers ~ Eddie :o)

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  10. ENTERTAINING, EXCITING - LOTS of E words!
    ROG, ABCW

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    1. Brilliant!!!
      E is for Entertaining Quotations . . . will change it - thanks

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  11. 'Drink like a chimney'?????

    And yes, I don't get mad, I get angry!!!!

    Most entertaining Eddie!

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