Posted on 05/14/2010 4:51:00 PM PDT by Post-Neolithic
Reading through one particular thread gave me the idea for this one.
#120: RE What he was doing in my pajamas, I’ll never know”.
Groucho Marx wrote a book with that title of “I Shot An Elephant in my Pajamas”. Extremely funny book.
Also anything by George Burns. He’s got more quotes than a dictionary has words, and all of them are funny.
“Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I’m concerned. I’d like a chance t’ shoot at a educated man once in my life”. - Gus McCrae, Lonesome Dove
“I did not have sex with that woman - Miss Lewinsky.” - Bill Clinton
*Hold my beer and watch this*...some dead guy.
“Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!”—The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
-Division Commander General Tony McAuliffe, Bastogne, Belgium
December 22nd, 1944
Not even close.
Let's Roll.
“Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
Animal House.
“If it weren’t for ‘no standards’, the Democrats wouldn’t have any standards at all”
Anonymous (fill in the space if you know who said it)
One of my all time favorite musicals—when I was teaching I used to show it to my classes! Classic. ;-)
On seeing John Adams shocked that Jefferson and his wife were going to have a ‘nooner’, Benjamin Franklin comments,
“Don’t worry, John, the history books will clean it up!” LOL.
“Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me.”—The Graduate
Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.
Joe Paterno
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Joe Paterno
Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.
Joe Paterno
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Joe Paterno
Publicity is like poison; it doesn’t hurt unless you swallow it.
Joe Paterno
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.
Joe Paterno
The minute you think you’ve got it made, disaster is just around the corner.
Joe Paterno
The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back.
Joe Paterno
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
Joe Paterno
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That’s the mark of a true professional.
Joe Paterno
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you’ll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
Joe Paterno
Also Groucho:
Society Lady: “Oh, dahling, hold me closer, closer, closer!”
Groucho: “If I held you any closer, I’d be behind you...”
“I always liked going south...somehow it feels like going downhill.” - Treebeard, from Lord of The Rings (the movie)
Martian Translator Device: We come in peace! We come in peace!
"I can eat fifty eggs" (dovetail with "Shakin' it here boss", "I got my mind right, boss", and "We're gonna get us some farm girls that know what fer")...Cool Hand Luke
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