# Post a quote. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919 "2002-03-25T00:01:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/21 "2002-03-25T14:12:15Z")
“Lemon Curry?!?” ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/22 "2002-03-25T14:46:43Z")
“. . . the rest of our lives will happen in the future, Randy, so we might as well get with the program now.” --Eberhard Podkayne, continuing her _Cryptonomicon_ spamming. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/23 "2002-03-25T14:48:32Z")
"When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. " – R.A. Lafferty (That’s just what came up right now on my sig program.) ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/24 "2002-03-25T15:59:41Z")
If I had a hammer, I’d use it on Peter, Paul, and Mary - Howard Rosenberg ---
**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:** [March 25, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/25 "2002-03-25T16:27:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > \*\*“Lemon Curry?!?” \*\* “Lager! The _only_ way to kill a curry.” ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/26 "2002-03-25T16:38:49Z")
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer. Things fall apart, the center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” –W.B. Yates, The Second Coming “Here’s to trying, rhymes with dying.” –Sir Mikel, Dragonlance: Test of the Twins ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/27 "2002-03-25T17:02:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. –Groucho Marx Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![misshannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@misshannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misshannah)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/28 "2002-03-25T18:08:01Z")
> [@](#): > > Teach us delight in simple things, And mirth that has no bitter springs. –Rudyard Kipling ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/29 "2002-03-25T19:32:56Z")
If it’s got tires or tits, sooner or later there’s gonna be a problem. - grandpa ---
**Author:** ![secretkeeper78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@secretkeeper78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/secretkeeper78)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/30 "2002-04-04T04:41:06Z")
“it’s very rude to correct someone when they speak. Just silently laugh at them.” “not all drugs are bad. Some of em are great.” bill hicks “face it folks, we’re a virus with shoes.” bill hicks ---
**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kase)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/31 "2002-04-04T09:06:34Z")
“I never drink water, fish fuck in it” W.C.Fields _ **plnnr** love your quote_ ---
**Author:** ![kuroashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9a140/32.png) [@kuroashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kuroashi)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/32 "2002-04-04T10:33:45Z")
I’m always reciting song lyrics, it annoys me. They pop up everywhere in my speech. SO I don’t know a whole lotta quotes. Mel Brooks’ “It’s good to be the king” floats up to the surface like a three-day-old dead body quite often though. In graduate school I liked “The important thing in life is not knowledge but action.” Can’t remember who said it though, or if that’s the exact wording. Jeez I suck at this… ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/33 "2002-04-04T15:51:31Z")
I once shot a man just to see him die. But then I got distracted and missed it. Oh, my friends tried to describe it to me. But it just wasn’t the same. – Dave Foley as a gunslinger on “The Kids in the Hall” ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/34 "2002-04-04T17:00:02Z")
“I was remembering the last words of Socrates, who said ‘I drank what?’” – Val Kilmer, _Real Genius_ ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/35 "2002-04-04T19:28:17Z")
\*\*For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. \*\* Last line of “Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle” by Richard P. Feynman ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Kahuna_Burger)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/36 "2002-04-04T19:29:49Z")
“There is no ‘off’ position on the genius switch” -David Letterman “I’ll never speak ill of Republicans. I have a great deal of respect for the past.” -Woodrow Wilson As seen in my yearbook. ---
**Author:** ![musicguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@musicguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/musicguy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/37 "2002-04-04T20:47:27Z")
“Experience is the name we give to our mistakes” Oscar Wilde “You can lead a horticulture but you can’t make her think” Dorothy Parker “I don’t drink water, that’s the stuff that rusts pipes” WC Fields ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/38 "2002-04-04T20:58:25Z")
“The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.” –Harlan Ellison And the best philosophy for life that I have ever heard: “Be excellent to each other and party on.” –_Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey_ ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Teerious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Miss\_Teerious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Teerious)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/39 "2002-04-04T23:19:09Z")
“In order to understand mankind we must look at the word itself. Mankind. Basically, it’s made up of two separate words, ‘mank’ and ‘ind’. What do these words mean? It’s a mystery, and that’s why so is mankind.” –Jack Handy ---
**Author:** ![Manach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Manach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manach)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-quote/99919/40 "2002-04-04T23:25:42Z")
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