Words or phrases you love (quote)

[TakeAhike]

'Happiness is a Warm Gun'---'This Guns for Hire'---

double entendres---love them--

must brush up on that

The Bard--
understood politics well--and human nature

'All the world's a stage'

'The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek.'
[1596 Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. iii. 93]


'Thus Candour's maxims flow from Rancour's throat, As devils, to serve their purpose, Scripture quote.'
[1761 C. Churchill Apology 15]

[TakeAhike]

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain

[bjh]

England has Shakespeare. America has Twain.

[TakeAhike]

Originally Posted by bjh

England has Shakespeare. America has Twain.

they seemed to share a viewpoint

There are times that I wish either or both would show up in online discussion--looking at the politics and relationship forums.

So many questions, so much confusion--have our minds turned to mush?

[virgode]

Originally Posted by TakeAhike

There are times that I wish either or both would show up in online discussion--looking at the politics and relationship forums.

Twain strolls the streets of London in his bathrobe


Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.
- The Mysterious Stranger

[Tantalust]

twinkling of an eye

tarred and feathered

happy-go-lucky

nuts 'n bolts

Houston, we have a problem

[saucywench]

It's not wise to upset a Wookiee.~Han Solo

Go, I will. Good relations with the Wookiees, I have.~Jedi Master Yoda

What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists, and the Republic has become the very evil we have been fighting to destroy?~Padmé

So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause.~Padmé


The Empire Triumphant

[annika08]

I've got a sneaking suspicion

Excelsior!

[saucywench]

Diabolical


Great name for a death metal band.

[virgode]

Originally Posted by saucywench

A lily liver

liver lips
Eat my road grit, liver lips!"
"Clark Griswold"

Originally Posted by BereniceUK

throwing out the baby with the bath water

Discard something valuable along with something not wanted. This expression, with its vivid image of a baby being tossed out with a stream of dirty water, is probably translated from a German proverb, Das Kind mit dem Bade ausschütten ("Pour the baby out with the bath"). It was first recorded in English in 1853 by Thomas Carlyle, who translated many works from German.
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Originally Posted by Tantalust

Houston, we have a problem

A misquotation of the radio transmission made by Swigert and repeated by Lovell ("...Houston, we've had a problem...") has become widely quoted in popular culture as "Houston, we have a problem."[