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Quotable Quotes

Postby Bob Dore » Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:08 pm

I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: - 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.'
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement..
- Mark Twain
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible
- George Burns
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Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.
- Victor Borge
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
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My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
- Jimmy Durante
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I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
- Alex Levine
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My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
- Rodney Dangerfield
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Money can't buy you happiness .... But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
- Spike Milligan
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Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP .
- Joe Namath
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I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.
- Bob Hope
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I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it..
- W. C. Fields
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We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.
- Will Rogers
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Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
- Winston Churchill
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Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty .. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out..
- Phyllis Diller
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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.
- Billy Crystal
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And the cardiologist's diet: - If it tastes good spit it out.

May your troubles be less, may your blessings be more, and may nothing but happiness come through your door.
Bob Dore
 

Re: Quotable Quotes

Postby John Boyd » Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:15 pm

Hi Bob,
Just love 'em.
JB
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Re: Quotable Quotes

Postby JimN » Sat Feb 25, 2012 2:51 am

'I can stop a runaway horse dead in its tracks by betting on it'
-Ronnie Scott.
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Re: Quotable Quotes

Postby Didier » Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:32 pm

The doctor :
From now on, no more alcohol, no more sex, no more fat...

The patient :
And I'll live longer ?

The doctor :
No, but the time will feel longer...

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Re: Quotable Quotes

Postby bazmusicman » Sat Feb 25, 2012 5:31 pm

Marriage is the only war where you sleep with the enemy!!

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Re: Quotable Quotes

Postby JimN » Sat Feb 25, 2012 10:09 pm

'This boy is trying'
- Maths teacher in my school report, 50 years ago this summer.
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