Thursday, July 28, 2022

Quotes from the olden days

 


These might be collected somewhere else. Most are mine, unless noted

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The early bird catches the worm,

but it’s the night owl that catches the mouse!

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I’m very flexible, except when aroused.

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How well does the world revolve around you?

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‘Too many people are not enough’

Accidentally said by an IRS agent.

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A bad girl is a girl who carries a kiss to its logical conclusion. (Can’t find who said this?)

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That’s illegal, immoral and illicit; but it sounds like fun. (Can’t find who said this?)

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Keep talking, you’re keeping the room warm.

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If sex were meant only for fun, then they wouldn’t have added the penalty of having kids.

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There really aren’t any words that beat a little human contact. (this came from a short story.)

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Who had once been rumored not only to have a girl in every port, but to have used a variety of ports in every girl (Can’t find who said this?)

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Everything is easy until you know it. (Can’t find who said this?)

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Breathe there a man with a soul so dead, who never to himself said, ‘I wish somebody would pinch my ass in an elevator.’ (Can’t find who said this?)

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You know it’s done when its legs wiggle. P. Brown

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Like Adam said about Eve, ‘It’s better than a piece of fruit.'

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I’m over the hill now and it’s all downhill from here, so I might as well slide into whatever I can.

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In space, all men are free, and teardrops never fall.

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The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind, onto whatever screen it fits with the least distortion. Arthur C. Clarke

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. (Robert A. Heinlein)

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Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around. H. Beam Piper

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‘If there is a god who made us, and we did wrong before his eyes, at least we did wrong only because we are as god made us. And I don’t think he should set traps. (Em Earth Abides.)

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It is the advantage of mysticism that, having no logical content, it cannot be damaged in any way by any further increase in nonsense, however great. (Isaac Asimov)

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Sometimes I get so involved in my work that I forget to wake up for hours. (Harry Reasoner)

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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Don Marquis

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Righting 2019

 

When she held up the rope and said, 'I understand that gentlemen prefer bonds.'
I thought it best not to correct her.
The Tail of Two Cities
Posted
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When my friend said their eyes met, I had to ask him, "Was it eye contact, or aye contact"?
Posted
or

It meant something completely different when she made 'aye' contact.
ToTC
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She walked up to me, all giggles and wiggles.
Used in Just a touch.
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Don't open that can of worms! We'll have to eat whatever we don't stuff back in!
Posted
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Maybe there is a small difference between watching over someone, and watching someone.
Posted
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Looking at the baked potato vs. the baked potato with, butter, sour cream, bacon and cheddar cheese.
Well, if you're going to hell, take the express train.

Potato with everything and then some. If you're going to hell, take the Express train.
Posted
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Recently, I had to correct my not so hip friend that the term is 'Gender Fluid', not 'Gender fluids'.
posted
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Just to ‘F’ with everyone, I think I should get a half red, half blue cap that reads,
‘Feel the Bern making America great again’.
Just to ‘F’ with people.
Posted
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The nice thing about email is that you'll never see the water marks(stains) my tears leave.
Tweeted
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In a small town, Atascadero
His choices were deemed quite narrow
He wooed a young maid
But she said you're too staid
And alas, no Caballero
Posted
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“No, but if we sit dwelling on what might happen between us some day; then we might miss something good, right in front of our noses today.”
Cindy - A Darkness of Auntie 2005
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'Nancy is an old friend.' I said, with a neutral tone of voice.
"What kind 'friend'?" She asked with a smile and a raised eyebrow.
"Oh it's not like That! It's more like friends, with secrets."
or
How to describe a friend?
Well, she is a 'not so insignificant, other'.
Ah, more like 'friends, with secrets'.
Posted something like this

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Used to be, I'd post something here.
Then a friend would text. "Does your wife know what you just posted?"
"Yes."
"Did she whack you on the arm?"
"Yes."
"Well alright then."
Kinda miss those days.
When was this last posted? Re-posted 8-23-18
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'Do you have a bucket list?' She asked.
'Yes,' I answered and then grinned. 'But it's a little beyond the pail'.
ToTC
Posted
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Does one need a license
for licencious behavior?
(asking for a friend)