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I noticed Oscar Wilde having a ton of great ones.

"Be Yourself. Everyone else is already taken."
(Oscar Wilde)

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"We are all in the gutter, some of us are looking at the stars" (or something like that).

Oscar Wilde.

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Keith Richards:- "I mean, some doctor told me I had six months to live, and I went to his funeral."

Coincidentally, Henny Youngman's doctor told him he had six months to live. Youngman said I can't pay you. The doctor said, that's ok I'll give you another six months. LOL

Ozzy Osbourne:- "I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots."

Yogi Berra quotes

"It ain't over till it's over"

"You can observe a lot by just watching."

"It's like déjà vu all over again."

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

"Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."

"It gets late early out there."

"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."

“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”

"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else."

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Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Keith Richards:- "I mean, some doctor told me I had six months to live, and I went to his funeral."

Hi,

David Bowie on one of his VH-1 things ... "what's your secret for longetivity?" ... "A GOOD DOCTOR"

You don't really need any other words on the quote ... I imagine that Keith knows exactly what this guy said!

Honestly, I don't go around quoting many folks ... but there are a few that are really good.

On drugs: "Are the drugs necessary?" "Of course not you idiot. But we had to shut you up long enough for you to see something else!" (Castaneda!)

The best one though ... "fame is like a cock ... it wilts and dies after it says good morning!" (or good afternoon or good evening!)

Edited by moshkito - December 08 2020 at 10:05

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Two of my favorite goofy quotes from Firesign Theater..

'Wherever you go, there you are.'

'How can you be in two places at once when you aren't anywhere at all'?

And my all time favorite quote from R A Wilson which I have used here before...

'If you think you know what's going on, then you are probably full of sh*t.'

One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin

Three quotes from Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree, all of which I can really relate to:-

"We live in a world dominated by fear and paranoia."

"I loved disco music, and I still count Donna Summer as one of my favourites of all time."

"I hate boy bands."

I think we can all empathise with the third statement.

Earl of Mar wrote:

Your Majesty is like a stream of Bats Piss. George Bernard Shaw or was it Wilde?

You shine out like a shaft of gold, when all around is dark.

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And of course Johann Galletti. He was an absent-minded professor in the German city Gotha in the late 18th and early 19th century. Here some examples of him in English translation:

"The kolibri is the smallest bird in the plant kingdom".

"In the Sahara the sand lies so loosely that there are mountains today where tomorrow were valleys".

"After Selim I. had been strangled to death with a silken cord he sought for protection within the seven towers".

"On black mountains black animals are black".

"The goose is the most stupid animal because it only eats as long as it finds something".

"Julianus first killed himself, then his father and then himself".

"The ground in the hot zone is sandy, in the moderate zone loamy, and the cold zone doesn't have a ground at all".

"When the pest raged in Florence, all doctors were killed by it. When the last doctor was dead the pest disappeared".

"When we presume a cannon ball will fly for a quarter of an hour in a few seconds, it will approximately reach Erfurt" (remark by me: a city in Germany).

"Gotha is not much further away from Erfurt than Erfurt from Gotha".

"The isles in the Mediterranean Sea are all larger or smaller than Sicily".

"South America is bent".

"Maximilian the First hoped to see the throne on his head". (Of course Galletti meant to say he hoped to sit on the crown).

And my favourite:

"With his beak the elephant defends himself against lions, tigers and other small insects". LOL

No, this is not a wrong translation.

And when professor Galletti was finished with his lesson he left the room with "Next Tuesday is equator".

Edited by BaldFriede - February 22 2021 at 08:56

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