Quotes Game

"Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility. One is wind-power, and the other water-power, that is all." Oliver Wendell Holmes 1858.

"What is love? 'tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure." William Shakespeare.

"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man." Dostoevsky 1862

"Anyway, Ma, I made it…Top of the world!" James Cagney - White Heat

(I really liked Karl's Goethe quote about architecture being petrified music, that's a really strong image, and if you look at Gaudi it seems absolutely true. There are some interesting articles about how old cathedrals are essentially constructed to be like huge tuning forks to catch, channel and magnify sound. Skills we seem to have lost) I'm no good at quotes - I can remember them but not attribute them.

"You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by." ‘As Time Goes By’

"Too Hot Too Hot, to mingle friendship far is mingling blood"... The Winters Tale....bill shaky...

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. CHARLES LAMB (agree with Andrew re Karl's architecture quote - fantastic)

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. SHAKESPEARE

"Funerals are for dead people" The Reverand E. A. Buckley

mr youse needn't be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man's solid bliss for youse ideas i'll match youse a pretty girl who naked is is worth a million statues - edward estlin cummings

"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms Inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name." Phillip Larkin.

"I feel old, I feel old I shall wear the bottom of my trousers rolled" anagram of `toilets`wrote that.

"Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me." Toilets.

Get her a flannel waistcost and flannel drawers, ma'am, if you wish to keep her alive. But my advice is, kill the poor creature at once. Mrs Gaskell

Exterminate the brutes! Conrad (Heart of Darkness)

"In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say ‘girl’." Tom Lehrer.

"When a man is tired of Camden, he's tired of life." Karl Wiggins 2001

"What a man has to go through for a piece of ass in the modern age is highly ridiculous." Charles Bukowski (fragment from Tears of the Gods)

"This wallpaper is killing me - one of us must go!" Oscar Wilde (peggin' it). Well, it's sleep of a sort...

Well, it'll have to be 'brutes', then. Not a lot of choice there, Thyme... O great and sane and simple race of brutes That own no lust because they have no law! TENNYSON

(I don't think you've quite got the hang of this, Justyn. Yourn is s'posed to be connected to the last one. Unless you're connecting 'girl' with '@!#$', of course...) My age is that of the bon sansculotte Jesus, an age fatal to Revolutionists. Camille Desmoulins (answer at his trial)

"You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attendance upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?" WB Yeats.

"A white wall is the fool's paper." French proverb.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God The lust of the goat is the bounty of God The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God The nakedness of woman is the work of God BILLY BLAKE

Since we believe otherwise can kind fires burn; Now ever suns smile true on child, or field or fruit. For God's invincible spring our love is made afraid; Therefore, not loath we lie out here; therefore were born For love of God seems dying WILFRED OWEN

"Before you let the sun in, mind it wipes its shoes." Dylan Thomas.

"A fools gold is a rich mans pebbles" What?? sorry crap at this game hehehe...

'You can do anything, but lay off my Blue Suede shoes' Elvis Presley

Looka as though the connection idea aint working, or i'm dumber than I thought! So anything goes? 'Masturbation is having sex with someone you love!' Woody Allen

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky. Wilde (Ballad of Reading Gaol - what else?)

a good opportunity to start over. this is the first line of tom saunders' story, The Great House of Easement: sanitary architecture attracts few disciples

"I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really, there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music." Goethe 1829.

"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast To soften rocks or bend a knotted oak" William Congreve

"For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world." William Ross Wallace.

I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made. HOUSMAN

"I'd rather be functionally drunk than dysfunctionally sober". Dr. H.S.Thompson. 1977

"A prison is a house of care A place where none can thrive, A touchtone true to try a friend A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves And honest men among." Inscription to Edinburgh's old Tolbooth prison (demolished in 1817)

Be sure your sins will find you out Proverb.... good one though....

the hand that cradles the rock marke e smith

"Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle" Whitman 1881

"There is wan thing and only wan thing to be said in the favour iv drink, and that it has cause manny a lady to be loved that otherwise might've died single." Finley Peter Dunne 1910

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a SINGLE man in possession of a good... (drink), must be in want of.. (another)" Austen with a twist

Any fool can quote a wise man..... "quote Ofar Quarson"

Any fool can quote a wise man..... "quote Ofar Quarson"

well they definitely link up ok....

"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link."

"Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat." Robert Lowell.

the weak can never forgive. forgiveness is the attribute of the strong [gandhi]

"Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenially sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone." H.L. Mencken 1929