# Favorite Words/Phrases/Quotes and Sayings **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 26, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248 "2019-08-26T03:44:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/141 "2019-09-11T00:32:34Z")
I love anything Mr. Burns spouts off on, “The Simpsons.” “You there, fill it up with petroleum distillate, and re-vulcanize my tires, post-haste!” “Crapulence.” “I’d like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?” “No, Smithers, I’ve decided to bring in a few ringers. Professional baseballers. We’ll give them token jobs at the plant and have them play on our softball team. Honus Wagner, Cap Anson, Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown…” “I’m afraid all those players have retired and… passed on. In fact, your right fielder has been dead for 130 years.” ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/142 "2019-09-11T02:08:04Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > When I’m trying to force myself out of bed after too little sleep, I’ll quote Warren Zevon to myself: “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” I’m not trying to be difficult but Zevon must have [paraphrased Benjamin Franklin](https://quotefancy.com/quote/772600/Benjamin-Franklin-There-will-be-plenty-of-time-to-sleep-once-you-are-dead). ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/143 "2019-09-11T13:18:54Z")
What if the hokey pokey really is what it’s all about? ---
**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:** [September 11, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/144 "2019-09-11T13:53:40Z")
Whenever someone asks me to do something that takes very little effort, or points out the obvious, I say “That’s not even a thought.” And after I do it: Well, that killed 29 seconds of my life. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/145 "2019-09-11T14:20:11Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > I’m not trying to be difficult but Zevon must have [paraphrased Benjamin Franklin](https://quotefancy.com/quote/772600/Benjamin-Franklin-There-will-be-plenty-of-time-to-sleep-once-you-are-dead). Well, Bennie’s quote may have been first, but you can’t [hum along to it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO1QUy-HTHQ). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/146 "2019-09-11T15:25:23Z")
Early '70s. Mom and I were looking for birthday gifts for my Mr. Know-it-all, type-A, my way or the highway dad. I found the perfect one. It was a chunk of rock with this carved on it… Once I thought I was wrong But I was mistaken ---
**Author:** ![mandala](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mandala/32/95_2.png) [@mandala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mandala)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/147 "2019-09-11T15:34:48Z")
Sign in a dyslexic Christian’s home: ‘In Dog We Thrust’ ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/148 "2019-09-11T15:41:42Z")
> [@mandala](#): > > Sign in a dyslexic Christian’s home: ‘In Dog We Thrust’ and of course the dyslexic agnostic insomniac who lay awake at night wondering if there is a dog ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/149 "2019-09-11T15:53:58Z")
> [@mandala](#): > > Sign in a dyslexic Christian’s home: ‘In Dog We Thrust’ > [@rsat3acr](#): > > and of course the dyslexic agnostic insomniac who lay awake at night wondering if there is a dog Satan has a major gripe with the Post Office: he’s sick and tired of getting all those Xmas cards from dyslexic kids. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/150 "2019-09-12T15:48:35Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > Early '70s. Mom and I were looking for birthday gifts for my Mr. Know-it-all, type-A, my way or the highway dad. I found the perfect one. It was a chunk of rock with this carved on it… > Once I thought I was wrong > But I was mistaken I made that up, in the late '50s. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/151 "2019-09-12T17:40:19Z")
panache-😃 Panache (flamboyant confidence of style or manner) is another good word. I had a great uncle George, who was a “rich” millionaire. We often visited him in Ca. He might say, “Where should we eat tonight?” Ten or eleven year old me might pipe up, “Let’s go to General Lee’s .” We didn’t have those kinds of places in Bellevue, Ne back then. My uncle’s response… “Who died and made you boss?” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/152 "2019-09-18T19:50:36Z")
[The Sagan standard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_standard) has been quite useful lately. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/153 "2019-09-18T21:20:56Z")
We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it. A favorite word has always been veleity. It means a wish to do something, but very little actual intention or desire to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/154 "2019-09-18T22:13:21Z")
“Make memories you can live with.” Robert Knott ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/155 "2019-09-18T22:25:10Z")
“Why should I worry about dying? It’s not going to happen in my lifetime!” - [Raymond Smullyan](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-entertainer/) ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/156 "2019-09-18T23:47:45Z")
“Blessed is the man who can laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be amused.” “Melifluous” is a good word. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/157 "2019-09-19T00:15:06Z")
> [@Civil\_Guy](#): > > “Blessed is the man who can laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be amused.” > > “Melifluous” is a good word. Especially when [spoken by James Earl Jones.](https://youtu.be/bBBwxWJW5hE?t=54) ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/158 "2019-09-19T02:07:14Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > He’s as busy as a one-armed paper hanger. …with crabs. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/159 "2019-09-19T02:11:27Z")
Slower than a fat lady in a cactus garden… …blindfolded… … and nekkid… ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/160 "2019-09-19T16:49:21Z")
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