Quotation Game

[kathycf]

Yes, just what the forum needs...another game. :D
The object of the game is to answer the preceding quote with one of your own but the catch is you must make it relate in some fashion. For example, I used a Dorothy Parker quote here.

I'm never going to be famous. I don't do anything, not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
Dorothy Parker
I could answer the quote with something similiar in content, such as this one:

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Or I could branch off and have the connection be based on the author of the original quote.

I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
Dorothy Parker
I hope that sounds fun...at least a little bit. Use quotations from favorite books, poems, authors ect... or try these
The Quotations Page (http://www.quotationspage.com/)

Bartleby's (http://www.bartleby.com/quotations/)


Now here is one to get you started:

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
Aldous Huxley

[Pendragon]

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ;)

[kathycf]

Hey Pen! :)
I forgot to mention that I "borrowed" the idea for this game from another forum I belong to. ;)


O, my luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June.
Robert Burns

[Pendragon]

Hi, Kathy! Why aren't more people playing, yo?
"And what is so rare as a day in June? Then if ever come perfect days" James Russell Lowell

[kathycf]

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
George Carlin


I dunno, maybe there is a secret anti-quotations cabal present in the forums. ;) :p

[cruciverbalist]

Considering the number of quotations threads on the forum, seems like an unlikely conjecture... :)

"The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it." Patrick Young

[kilted exile]

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

Al Franken

[kathycf]

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

[RobinHood3000]

An unwritten agreement isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

-- Not sure who; I'll look it up if we need to.

[kathycf]

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde

[Pendragon]

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. Abraham Lincoln

[kathycf]

f you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw

[mono]

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
H.P. Lovecraft

[cruciverbalist]

The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

[melancolia]

There is no poetry without madness
Democritus

[Pendragon]

Yesterday this day's madness did prepare William Shakespeare

[kathycf]

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
William Shakespeare

[kilted exile]

Dont knock the weather, without it nine out of ten people couldnt start a converstion

Kin Hubbard

[thingamajig]

Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.

Benjamin Franklin

[aeroport]

The shallow depression in the west of these islands is likely to move slowly in an easterly direction. There are no indications of any great change in the barometrical situation.

Liza from Pygmalion by Shaw

[cruciverbalist]

There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends.

Arnot Sheppard

[Pendragon]

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything to change it. Charles Dudley Weaver

[kathycf]

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.
Michael Fry and T. Lewis,

[Pendragon]

Matters change and morals change; men remain. Galsworthy

[thevintagepiper]

“All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls away. But the word of the Lord endureth forever.” – 1 Peter 1:24

-The Bible

[kathycf]

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

[aeroport]

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

- Aristotle

[Pendragon]

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die eveb the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain

[kathycf]

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana

[kathycf]

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow

[Pendragon]

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. Oscar Wilde

[kathycf]

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

[fitzgolden]

“Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.”

Isaac Friedmann

[kathycf]

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Sir Francis Bacon

[Pendragon]

If you have no enimies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends Elbert Hubbard

[kathycf]

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero

True words!

[Pendragon]

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache:
Do be my enemy—for friendship's sake. William Blake

[kathycf]

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
William Blake

[Pendragon]

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon nor star Confucius . . .

[kathycf]

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson

[Pendragon]

An Idea isn't responsible for the people that believe in it. Don Marquis . . .