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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