I've always liked a good quote or quip, no matter the source. I also
like to know WHO said it, WHEN they said it, WHERE they said it and
the circumstances under which it was said. Seldom are all the
statistics provided. Many wise sayings were uttered by the ubiquitous
"Anonymous". So, I always TRY to get the information on each quote,
but it's frequently NOT given. That doesn't stop me from passing them
on. Just understand that I have made the effort to document or certify
the following, if nothing more than where I got it!
Hope you enjoy these as much as I have. Will try to update them from
time to time. It depends on whim, whimsy, and time.
If you have some favorite or scintillating quote, send it along. If you have comments or comparisons for the quotations posted, please email them to me and... Thank you.
Fill every beaker up, my men, pour forth the cheering wine: / There's life and strength in every drop,_thanksgiving to the vine! -- Albert Gorton Greene Source Unknown
Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls. -- Jackie Gleason Source: The Guinness Book of Poisonous Quotes, Compiled by Colin Jarman, Contemporary Books, Inc, Chicago, Illinois, 1991/1992, p127
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. -- James Agate born 1887, English Dramatic Critic Source: The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, Edited by Evan Esar, Dorset Press, New York, 1949, p18
At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular. -- Ruth Gordon Source: The Bedside Book of Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity Research Group, Prince Paperbacks, Crown Publishers Inc, New York, 1984, p45
He is a self-made man, and worships his creator. -- Benjamin Disraeli (104-1881) On John Bright Source: The Book of Insults, Compiler Nancy McPhee, Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1978, p132
I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized to how many people he is not a sex symbol but a mother image. -- David Bowie Source: Loose Talk, The Book of Quotes, Compiler Linda Botts, Quick Fox/ Rolling Stone Press, New York, 1980, p112
The extreme delight we take in talking about ourselves should make us suspect that it is not shared by those who listen. -- François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) Source: French Wit and Wisdom, Anonymous Compiler, The Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, NY, 1950-56, p18
"I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones." -- Walt Whitman, in Song of Myself Source: The Pocket Book of Quotations, Edited by Henry Davidoff, Pocket Books Inc, New York, 1942, p74
"With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy." -- Schopenhauer Source: Best Quotations for All Occasions, Arranged and Edited by Lewis C. Henry, A Premier Book, Fawcett Publications Inc, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1945, p151
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