Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Quotations to Make You Smile

 From my friend Wayne, from his friend Nick in Australia.

~ John Glenn...

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

 ~ Desmond Tutu...

When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them , we had the Bible and they had the land. 

 ~ David Letterman...

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

 ~ Howard Hughes...

I'm not a paranoid, deranged millionaire. God dammit, I'm a billionaire. 

 ~ Old Italian proverb...

After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box. 

 ~ Betsy Salkind...

Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for thirty years. 

 ~ Jean Kerr...

The only reason they say "Women and children first," is to test the strength of the lifeboats. 

 ~ Zsa Zsa Gabor...

I've been married to a communist and a fascist, and neither would take out the garbage. 

~ Jeff Foxworthy...
You know you're a redneck if your home has wheels and your car doesn't. 

~ Prince Philip...
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. 

 ~ Emo Philips...

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing. 

 ~ Harrison Ford...

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself. 

 ~ Spike Milligan...

The best cure for Sea Sickness is to sit under a tree. 

 ~ Robin Hall...

Lawyers believe a person is innocent until proven broke.

 ~ Jean Rostand...

Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

 ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger...

Having more money doesn't make you happier. I have 50 million dollars but I'm just as happy as when I had 48 million. 

 ~ WH Auden...

We are here on earth to do good unto others. What the others are here for, I have no idea. 

 ~ Jonathan Katz...

In hotel rooms I worry. I can't be the only guy who sits on the furniture naked.

 ~ Johnny Carson...

If life were fair, Elvis would still be alive today and all the impersonators would be dead. 

 ~ Warren Tantum...

I don't believe in astrology. I am a Sagittarius and we're very skeptical. 

 ~ Steve Martin...

Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap. 

 ~ Jimmy Durante...

Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is. 

 ~ Doug Hanwell...

America is so advanced that even the chairs are electric. 

~ George Roberts...
The first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone. 

 ~ Jonathan Winters...

If God had intended us to fly , he would have made it easier to get to the airport. 

 ~ Robert Benchley... 

I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it.


 


14 comments:

  1. Debra, thank you. After the last set of blogs, I needed something easy and light.

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  2. The Desmond Tutu Quote I'm sure could have been said by many a Native American Tribal Leader... so True, so Profound.

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  3. Bohemian, the Missionaries always went first to soften up the natives for the merchants. If that failed they sent the soldiers. All over the world

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  4. I love and collect quotes - and wish I had said them.
    the Ol'Buzzard

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  5. Ol'Buzzard, I hope some of these can add to your collection.
    Oscar Wilde: I wish I had said that.
    James McNeill Whistler: You will, Oscar, you will.

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  6. Good quotes, Al. Of course, I've stolen them all. But, hey, what a friends for, eh?

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  7. All good quotes are meant to be passed around.

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  8. Smiling. Broadly.
    Thank you I needed this this morning.

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  9. You've got some good laughs here. As for which attributions are true, I would bet heavily on the one by Tolstoy and to somewhat lesser degree on many of the others.

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  10. Elephant's Child, thank you. Glad to be of service.
    Snowbrush, I did not check any of them but have read several before attributed to the same people.
    Jackiesue, Johnny was right about that and quite a few other things

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  11. Ha! Good ones, all. I needed a smile today - thanks! :-)

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