Great Quotes

[Tin Pot]

The thing is, there's a card in the box that tells you what they are. It should be "Life is like a bag of Revels. You never know what you're gonna get"

Life is like a bag of Revels. You never know what you're gonna get. But it will be the coffee one.

 

[Tin Pot]

The early bird catches the worm, but the early worm gets eaten.

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

 

[swansonj]

My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it

The immortal, unmatchable Tom Lehrer.

 

[rich p]

There's a programme called "Quote Unquote" on Radio 4 where various tired old luvvies celebrities are wheeled out to regurgitate highly familiar sayings, aphorisms and quotations with the air of having discovered something new and amusing. It's chaired by Nigel Rees and I dive for the off switch as soon as I hear that it's on.

A lot of this thread reminds me of it.

I'd happily throttle Nigel Rees if I could get away with it

 

[Chris S]

"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
John Lydon at the end of the last ever Sex Pistols gig.

 

[pplpilot]

Guy I used to work with - 'I'd run amok if I knew how to go about It'