Quotes - One-liners: philosophical,comical or truisms

Quote picked up on the Seasick Steve album "I started off with nothing, and I still have most of it left".

MARRIAGE, n.
The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

A. Bierce

'I spent it all on booze, birds and fast cars but wasted the rest'

The late George Best I think-or was it James Hunt?

"It's such a fine line between clever and stupid" - David St Hubbins, Spinal Tap

Rich

Homer to Marge when about to purchase a vast and expensive television:

"Why skimp on the machine that's gonna' bring up our kids....?"

Willie Sutton, when the judge asked him why he kept on (unsuccessfully) robbing banks:
"Because that's where they keep the money."

Lyndon Johnson, appointing a political enemy to his Cabinet:

"I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in."

Remembered yesterday by the Guardian, reporting Mandelson's return to the Cabinet.

I thought he'd been directing his genius at the EC.

What Lyndon Johnson?

sounds like LBJ the 36th pres of usa

Indeed it was LBJ - good to find somebody is as old as me and remembers him...

You can take a horse to silica but you can't make him undersand.

Hell is other people.

One for the business community.
Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity.

And one for the Housing Associations.
If you put a pig in a palace it soon becomes a pigsty.

Another Churchill fav

Lady Astor "Mr Churchill I do belive you are drunk! - reply "Yes and you are ugly - but I will be sobor in the Morning"

My life mantra "Shit Happens!

William Arthur Ward - If you can imagine it you can achieve it - if you dream it you can become it


and Albert Einstien

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.

JV replying to a bodging question in the old forum:

"I would suggest that you do not remove certain diodes from the CDS PS,
it needs all the diodes we put in it."

Another Sam Goldwyn

"Verbal contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on."

"That would destroy the entire universe, and as an environmentalist I'm against that." Al Gore in Futurama

At the Salt Lake City airport, August 1977, apparently keying the mic a little late, on the airport public address system:

"Would those who have not done so, please do so now."

So, we did.

"We have abolished boom & bust economics"

Mr. Bean/ Brown

Another Mark Twain:

"Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right."

on a wine theme I like:

"The first duty of wine is to be Red . . . the second is to be a Burgundy." Harry Waugh

Good maxim for life:

"It makes no difference to the outcome whether you are an optimist or a pessimist, but an optimist enjoys the wait."

Which I think was Eleanor Roosevelt, but I'm not sure.

Other faves:

"...back when sex was safe and racing was dangerous" Jackie Stewart

"Imagine a person of average intelligence. Now realise that half the people you meet are more stupid than that." ?

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." Samuel Clemens

"Hard work pays off eventually, but laziness pays off now." ?

For every ω-consistent recursive class κ of FORMULAS there are recursive CLASS SIGNS r, such that neither v Gen r nor Neg(v Gen r) belongs to Flg(κ) (where v is the FREE VARIABLE of r).

quote:

Originally posted by Adam Meredith:
For every ω-consistent recursive class κ of FORMULAS there are recursive CLASS SIGNS r, such that neither v Gen r nor Neg(v Gen r) belongs to Flg(κ) (where v is the FREE VARIABLE of r).

That is easy for you to say !

From the Dibert comic strip, Catbert, the evil director of human resources, declares that all restroom breaks require usage of vacation time.

Wally, walking toward the restroom with coffee cup in hand, announces "If anyone is looking for me, I will be taking a porcelain cruise"

TV commentator on an Australian Rules footballer who got thumped going for the ball:

"He went in optimistically and came out misty optically".