# Famous Quotes...From an Alternate Universe **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 9, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394 "2017-10-09T16:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/21 "2017-10-10T07:18:25Z")
“Write according to my decree, or I will get a brain aneurysm” - Czarcasm ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/22 "2017-10-10T08:12:43Z")
Funniest line eve by Johnny Carson: Famous misquoted people in history: Admiral Nelson: “Do you like show tunes, Hardy?” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/23 "2017-10-10T10:07:23Z")
> [@Isosleepy](#): > > “You can shoot the man having the idea, but never the idea itself”. Gandhi > “Your gate is, indeed, stout. But I have an axe.” Harald Hardrada > “I’d like my rifle back now.” Hugh Glass > “Well, I wouldn’t do it again”. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca > “It looked much like the rest of it. It was our presence which gave it meaning” Amundsen > “A rich man has many friends, but remains rich by being friend to few” Shakespeare. Good ones, especially the Shakespeare. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/24 "2017-10-10T11:08:38Z")
> [@Charlie\_Tan](#): > > “Write according to my decree, or I will get a brain aneurysm” - Czarcasm Let’s avoid personal pot shots in this forum. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/25 "2017-10-10T14:55:31Z")
“Forget it Billy. I’m not kissing that bitch again.” –Actor Tony Curtis on the set of _Some Like it Hot_ with director Billy Wilder and co-star Marilyn Monroe “Is everything set with the Frenchman?” –Sam Giancana, _ca_. late 1963. “Get me another bottle and my revolver.” –“Col.” Griffith J. Griffith. “It’s no use crying over spilled ebelskiver.” –Kierkegaard ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/26 "2017-10-10T16:19:28Z")
Reporter in 1865: “Aside from that Mrs. Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?” ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/27 "2017-10-11T02:35:42Z")
“You can fool some of the people all of the time and you can fool all of the people some of the time, and usually that is sufficient.” Abraham Lincoln. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/28 "2017-10-11T02:48:55Z")
“Mr.Putin, put up that wall”: Trump ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/29 "2017-10-11T03:32:55Z")
_“I’ll be right back, I’m just going to check on the cake.”_ ~Sylvia Plath ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/30 "2017-10-11T18:07:38Z")
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Then when we fear fear, we also fear the fearing of fear.” FDR’s inaugural address ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/31 "2017-10-11T19:05:51Z")
“As First Lord of the Admiralty, all I have to offer is rum, sodomy and the lash.” -Winston Churchill. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/32 "2017-10-11T19:29:33Z")
“I never said I was a jelly donut.” – John F. Kennedy ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/33 "2017-10-11T21:17:17Z")
_“What the fuck, Hardy? I said kismet.”_ - Admiral Nelson ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/34 "2017-10-12T00:12:39Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > _“What the fuck, Hardy? I said kismet.”_ - Admiral Nelson Out fucking standing! Without the WTF, it would work. Perhaps, “Damn your eyes, Hardy!” (Nelson was hit by a sharp shooter from a French ship at the sea battle of Trafalgar, and as he died he said to his Flag Captain, Thomas Hardy, “Kiss me, Hardy.”) From Wikipedia: According to the contemporary accounts, Nelson last words were: ``` "Take care of my dear Lady Hamilton, Hardy, take care of poor Lady Hamilton". He paused then said very faintly, "Kiss me, Hardy". This, Hardy did, on the cheek. Nelson then said, "Now I am satisfied. Thank God I have done my duty". ``` The later story, that Nelson’s last words were “Kismet [fate] Hardy”, aren’t supported by any contemporary evidence. In fact, ‘kismet’ isn’t recorded as being in use in English to mean fate until as late as 1830, a quarter of a century after Nelson died. That euphemistic version of events is thought to be a later invention that attempted to avoid embarrassment by covering up the supposed homo-erotic imagery of men kissing. That was misguided in more ways than one, not least because platonic kisses between men at times of great emotion weren’t viewed in the way in 19th century England. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/35 "2017-10-12T17:06:00Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Reporter in 1865: “Aside from that Mrs. Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?” Aside from that, Mrs. Kennedy, how was your trip to Dallas? Aside from that, Yoko Ono, how did the recording session go? Aside from that, Prince Charles, how was your vacation with your sons? ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/36 "2017-10-12T17:49:49Z")
Having read the draft of\* Portrait\* I can say with sincerity that a far more incomprehensible novel is in the offing. -Mr. Samuel Clemens epigraph of James Joyce’ Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1st Ed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394.md?page=1)