A little nonsense now and then...

[Madame Pandora]

A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men.

This is an anonymous quote, but being as many of the people on this site are aspiring writers and the rest are avid readers, I figure we probably know a pretty tremendous amount of quotes between us all.

So...in the same spirit as Lil-Brandy's "something different" thread, I was wondering if this might be somewhat fun to try.

If you know a quote, tell where it's from and post the next one. Movies, books, famous people, songs, it's all game. In the event of a tie (two people guess at the same time and it posts simultaniously) the first person who snuck their post is has the next "live" quote. ;-)I don't think we'll get picky about particulars. If you know the person/book/movie/poem/song that should be enough, we don't have to bother with citation.

My quote is: "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker"

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MP

 

[Grrrn38]

My quote is: "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker"

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MP

Dorothy Parker, but don't know anything else about quote.

How about: "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever"?

 

[Madame Pandora]

Mine was actually Ogden Nash ;-) Yours is Napoleon Bonaparte.

How about:

"He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again."

 

[Grrrn38]

Shakespeare. And on a related note:

"I'll moider da bum."

 

[Grrrn38]

MP: I had looked around for some quotes last year for a friend who wanted an unusual (wiseass) one for his senior yearbook picture. Some of these don't lend them selves to the game but are funny:

"Now, now, my good man, this is not time for making enemies." -- Voltaire, on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him to renounce Satan

"What do you take me for, an idiot?" -- Charles de Gaulle, when a journalist asked him if he was happy

"Assassins!" -- Arturo Toscanini to his orchestra

"The President has kept all of the promises he intends to keep." -- then-Clinton aide George Stephanopolis on Larry King Live.

 

[RisiaSkye]

MP, I know that it's 'anonymous' and everything, but that "nonsense" quote always makes me want to watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. (Only Gene Wilder could use that line as a segway into a piccolo interlude, IMHO)

Here's mine: "Speculation is so much safer than learning the truth."

True in too many cases, isn't it?

 

[Dillinger]

"I'll moider da bum." - Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare. - A very good follow up to the Shakespeare quote!

I'm not sure if we're supposed to follow sublect or not? But here is one...

"He thought he saw a banker's clerk descending from a bus
He looked again and saw it was a hippopotamus"

 

[Madame Pandora]

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Knew it was Lewis Carroll right off, but it was making me CRAZY as to what it was until I remembered Sylvie and Bruno.

Good one, Dillinger

How about:

"And in his eyes,
All the sadness of the world
Those pleading eyes
That both threatened and adored..."

 

[Whispersecret]

That's from Phantom of the Opera! Oooh! I knew one.

I gotta think of my quote....

 

[Whispersecret]

"Those who are late do not get fruit cup!"

I'll be flabbergasted if anyone gets that one.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

That's from "High Anxiety" written by Mel Brooks but spoken by Cloris Leachman.

Here's one: "Nothing is written."

 

[Whispersecret]

<points at self, properly flabbergasted>

If anyone got that, I would have guessed Dixon.

 

[Dillinger]

I'm not a huge musicals fan BUT - that's Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux - sung by Christine

Yet in his eyes
all the sadness
of the world . . .
Those pleading eyes,
that both threaten
and adore . . .

So... to follow up - here's the next one:

`Cause I've seen, oh, blue skies
Through the tears in my eyes
And I realize, I'm going home.

 

[Dillinger]

Wow Dixon - that's not much to go on. I'm guessing Lawrence of Arabia.

 

[Gaucho]

Dill - I think you're right on that one.

Me, I'm still trying to figure out Risia's.

 

[Madame Pandora]

I know Dillinger is RHPS

I have no idea about DCL unless it's that Tom McKelvey Hallmark card one about that which is the heart...makes me think of either The Ten Commandments or Terminator 2...lol

Skye has me legitimately stumped.

But...since I got RHPS...I'm gonna give myself a cookie...lol

"The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword."

 

[Dillinger]

You're right on the mark there, Madame - very good! RisiaSkye has me stumped too, though.

"The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword." - Oscar Wilde

And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word.
he coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

Good luck with this one... I'll give a hint... there is a connection between it and the above...

"Don't come to me with your petty problems. You get this one stinking night a week. I'm cooped up here with Mary Poppins twenty-four hours a day."

 

[Madame Pandora]

The Odd Couple Dillinger

How about - "Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops."

 

[BrainyBeauty]

Cary Grant

Arsenic and Old Lace.
Great movie!

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Yep. Lawrence of Arabia. Here's one (forgive the spelling):

"Venni, Viddi, Vicci."

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[Thumper]

Et tu Brutus

Caesar...not the salad! The emperor..

Shakespeare wrot e it in Julius Caesar..

I cane, I saw, I kicked the shit out of...

 

[CelestialBody]

I forgot-DCL you're not allowed to answer this one.

 

[R Nitelight]

Macbeth.


Common people do not pray; they only beg.

 

[Madame Pandora]

Ahhh...MacBeth

Out out brief candle...tomorrow and tomorrow and...hell with it. MacBeth ;-) Ole' Willy Shakes again.

How about...

"I found the glass slipper, and it fit. Then it broke."

MP