Another brilliant put-down. "If brains were dynamite, you wouldn't have enough to blow your nose!"Originally Posted by Lokasenna
Great book by Kenneth Williams called "Acid Drops", full of simiar quotes.
Another brilliant put-down. "If brains were dynamite, you wouldn't have enough to blow your nose!"
Great book by Kenneth Williams called "Acid Drops", full of simiar quotes.
Dafydd Manton, A Legend In His Own Lunchtime!!www.dafydd-manton.co.uk
My Work Has Been Spread Over Many Fields!
I've created several decent quotes throughout my life, but unfortunately I never wrote any of them down. One that I recall, though, is: "There is no such thing as overthinking; only overlooking." Generally used as a response to someone who makes the universal excuse: "I guess I overthought it." or "I didn't want to overthink it."
Something I tell my students from time to time:
"Wildness is not a prerequisite for fun!"
[I teach at an all-girl high school. It seems that as time goes by they have less and less comportment and propriety!]
"My warm hands have made the paper limp,
So that its feel reminds me of slept-in sheets: comfortable and safe"
"All these things I say... I say them because I want you to know, I don't ever want to regret afterwards that I didn't say enough, I would rather say too much." ~ Samuel Selvon
Do the best you can and do it right , who knows what comes next !
"He is asleep. Though his mettle was sorely tried,
He lived, and when he lost his angel, died.
It happened calmly, on its own,
The way the night comes when day is done."
I like that one!!
For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?Eliot
Rules are always in somebody's interest, for if they were in everybody's interest - we would have no need for them.
Nothing further then he uttered; not a feather then he fluttered;
Till I scarcely more than muttered, "Other friends have flown before;
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before."
Then the bird said, "Nevermore."
Rules are there for the guidance of the wise and the blind obedience of damned fools!
Dafydd Manton, A Legend In His Own Lunchtime!!
My Work Has Been Spread Over Many Fields!
It is not the Intellectuals we must fear, It is not the masses we must fear, It is the Intellectual Masses which shall screw us over.
I don't speak English, I speak greatness; my words mesmerize the ear like a Brazilian 24 year-old dressed in a scarlet silk dress seduces the eye as she performs the tango with her dancing partner onstage. I know so because you're still listening.
When I see the Big Dipper, I see it taking big scoops out of the future and feeding to me my dreams.
I would continue to say I love you if it could epitomize how much I do.
Most of these lines are from urban word poems in progress. Hope you like them.
I've paraphrased a couple of Public Domain sayings: "Do not underestimate the Power of Autism" and "If at first you don't succeed, try it a different way."
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I think I'd like as a requiem for any of my work:
"Don't sit there analysing it - just laugh!"
Dafydd Manton, A Legend In His Own Lunchtime!!
My Work Has Been Spread Over Many Fields!
"If I can't get any love then I might as well get laid"
Once upon a time, long ago, my father brought a painting he considered buying home to get the opinions of my mother and myself. He went on talking about it for some length, and ended his speech by saying:
-This bloke really knows how to paint!
...and of course yours truly aged 12 or so found the painting hideous and retorted:
-So why doesn't he?
My mother started laughing hysterically and my father never did buy that painting.
/Claes
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
Don't speak in hyperbole; live in it!
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
Teehee. A lot of these are really good.
I have the weight of the world upon my shoulders. It is outstanding.
For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?Eliot
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