This is not original to House, a TV series that started in 2004. It's a ripoff of a question posed by actress Lily Tomlin several years before that, specifically: "Why is it that when we talk to God It is said we are praying but when God talks to us it is said we are schizophrenic?"
America is a lonely crock of shit - Jack Kerouac Our faults, dear Cassius, lie not in our stars, but in ourselves - Shakespeare's Julius Caesar I take a lot in, throw away some and keep the best - me Et tu, Brute? see above Don't cast your pearls before swine - My Great Aunt Fran who set up and ran hospitals in GB during the war. She retired as a Colonel in the USAF when women were not supposed to be colonels in the USAF. I loved and admired her in life and I honor her in death. Man proposes, God disposes - Father John, priest at the church where I played the organ. Always have two nickels to rub together -Me Mum Here's lookin' at you, kid - Humphrey Bogart It's the stuff that dreams are made of - see above Be careful what you wish for, you might get it - anonymous sage written on the stockroom wall where I worked as a young man.
Did I mention that Joe Mankiewicz who wrote and directed the screenplay for All About Eve was born right here in NEPA (Northeast Pennsylvania) in Wilkes-Barre? There's a reference in a dialogue between BD (Margo) and her real life husband playing the director (Gary Merrill) where she refers to opening in Wilkes-Barre. Mankiewicz was also director for what I've always thought was a pretty good movie - Cleopatra. a little pricey, but quite a spectacle. So, John, fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night. Funny business, a woman's career - the things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. I’ll admit I may have seen better days…but I’m still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, like a salted peanut.
Camus, whilst turning in his grave, may agree with the sentiment yet will, rightly, attribute it to Friedrich Nietzsche "That which does not kill us, makes us stronger."
It's a line of de Musset's that Karen Blixen loved: "Il faut, dans ce bas monde, aimer beaucoup de choses Pour savoir, après tout, ce qu'on aime le mieux..."
Which is, more or less: "We must, in this low world, love many things, so that we can know, in the end, what we have loved the most."
A friend sent me the Jesus love you saying as I work with a woman who's husband is violent towards her but they both think it's ok as they are 'committed Christians'! The chin up one came from one of my blog readers.
According to Wikiquote, the humorist Dorothy Parker would say "What fresh hell can this be?" whenever she answered her doorbell. "What fresh hell is this?"
I am not really sure... but I did think of you this morning, as a client left a Walking Dead quilt here to have the quilting done. John would love this, I thought. Barb
I've always liked - Life's a bitch and then you die! My long passed and much loved Nan always used say - The path of true love never runs smoothly and nor does any other sort of love. She also used say - My head will never save my legs, bless her.
"So often in the past I would look in your eyes and I would find there forgiveness. Perhaps one day in the future it will be there again. But now I won't be with you, I won't see it."
"for the days pass, and never return" "I will linger and look back; and at last I will surely see you coming, eager and lighthearted, with all the South in your face!" The Sea Rat
It's something claire's mum used to say ....universally translates into ' her with nothing is looking down her nose at her with absolutely nothing ' .....hope that makes sense :)
While this is not always true as there are lovely wealthy people, I love this one: “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” ― Dorothy Parker
Nil bastardum carborundum- My father ... on the back of an envelope to me at boarding school, knowing full well the nuns read Latin... but perhaps couldn't read his atrocious medical script!
I thought yours might be from where your blog title came: Do not go gently into that dark night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. (Dylan Thomas?) I kind of like this one: Comparison is the thief of joy. Also, This too shall pass.
Favourite movie quotes are often something from Monty Python. -Jenn
Ditto anything by Dorothy Parker especially if it's about smoke and burning bridges. My current favourite quote is a bit schmaltzy: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
How can I pick one . . . I save wise words and quotes . . . Finding tiny pieces of paper where I have scratched down words, pieces of wisdom, saved in drawers, files, book marks . . . brings me a smile or two, three or more. And now this entry of yours fills me with more . . . Here is one . . . "The only thing you actually have to know, is the location of the library." ~ alfred einstein
and words I found handwritten on an 1887 postcard . . .
"Friendship is the best college of which you can graduate." July 8, 1887, Geertje D. Swygman
I once had 'rudeness is a weak mans attempt to appear strong' in a frame on my desk at work. I went into work one morning and my colleague asked me what it was that the boss had taken from my desk..... The boss confiscated it as he thought it was directed at him.... he felt such a twit when I explained that it was to remind me why the bus driver on my way to work was an ignorant and obnoxious pig.
A recently found one....the chains on her mood swing just snapped! And an old Northern Irish one "he's got a quare leg for a button boot" meaning both having a good figure ,and implying they're a bit vain about it...
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ReplyDeleteThe most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
ReplyDelete... Audrey Hepburn ...
She was a love
Delete'Safety Last'.
ReplyDeleteTrustyou
DeleteHard to pick just one, but I do like:
ReplyDelete"If you talk to God you're religious. If God talks to you, you're psychotic." - Gregory House
Sounds almost wilde ish
DeleteThis is not original to House, a TV series that started in 2004. It's a ripoff of a question posed by actress Lily Tomlin several years before that, specifically: "Why is it that when we talk to God It is said we are praying but when God talks to us it is said we are schizophrenic?"
Delete“The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I? Light up the darkness” Bob Marley
ReplyDelete“Do not pity the dead, Harry, pity the living, and above all those who live without love.”
ReplyDelete"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if only one remembers to turn on the light."
Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter has a great deal to answer for
DeleteAs I sit here with my green Slytherin socks and Gryffindor hooded top! lol (obviously with other clothes on, I am not that nutty!)
DeleteI totally agree with the turn on the light part ~
Delete"Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
ReplyDeleteAnd you'll never walk alone"
Sorry it's not more highbrow!
But its moving nevertheless
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DeleteI cried every time I saw that film (
DeleteCarousel )and heard that song
"If you are going to do a job half-assed don't bother to do it at all"
ReplyDeleteMy Dad.
My mother
Delete" you found it before it was lost"
" she folowed a muck cart and thought it was a wedding"
"This too shall pass".
ReplyDeleteOne of the best bits of MY BEST FRIENDS WEDDING
Delete"That's what I do - I drink and I know things" - Tyrion Lannister
ReplyDeleteThere's no cure for being a c@&t - Bronn
DeleteExcellent:-)
DeleteYes excellent, i am googling like mad
Delete"Wander where there is no path".
ReplyDelete"Better out than in, better here than there, better now than later." my mother
ReplyDeleteMothers seem to be featuring here
DeleteBecause Mother knows Best ...
DeleteAmerica is a lonely crock of shit - Jack Kerouac
ReplyDeleteOur faults, dear Cassius, lie not in our stars, but in ourselves - Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
I take a lot in, throw away some and keep the best - me
Et tu, Brute? see above
Don't cast your pearls before swine - My Great Aunt Fran who set up and ran hospitals in GB during the war. She retired as a Colonel in the USAF when women were not supposed to be colonels in the USAF. I loved and admired her in life and I honor her in death.
Man proposes, God disposes - Father John, priest at the church where I played the organ.
Always have two nickels to rub together -Me Mum
Here's lookin' at you, kid - Humphrey Bogart
It's the stuff that dreams are made of - see above
Be careful what you wish for, you might get it - anonymous sage written on the stockroom wall where I worked as a young man.
Wonderful....you are getting my film quote memories going here.. ALL ABOUT EVE alone could fill the page
DeleteDid I mention that Joe Mankiewicz who wrote and directed the screenplay for All About Eve was born right here in NEPA (Northeast Pennsylvania) in Wilkes-Barre? There's a reference in a dialogue between BD (Margo) and her real life husband playing the director (Gary Merrill) where she refers to opening in Wilkes-Barre. Mankiewicz was also director for what I've always thought was a pretty good movie - Cleopatra. a little pricey, but quite a spectacle.
DeleteSo, John, fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night.
Funny business, a woman's career - the things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman.
I’ll admit I may have seen better days…but I’m still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, like a salted peanut.
Thank you for that..as youknow I adore " EVE"
DeleteI so wanted my life to be a little like that screenplay........i turned into celeste Holm
What doesn't kill me makes me stronger. - Albert Camus
ReplyDeleteCamus, whilst turning in his grave, may agree with the sentiment yet will, rightly, attribute it to Friedrich Nietzsche "That which does not kill us, makes us stronger."
DeleteU
It is a good quote whoever said it
DeleteIt's a line of de Musset's that Karen Blixen loved: "Il faut, dans ce bas monde, aimer beaucoup de choses Pour savoir, après tout, ce qu'on aime le mieux..."
ReplyDeleteWhich is, more or less: "We must, in this low world, love many things, so that we can know, in the end, what we have loved the most."
Im getting quotes in French now! how absolutely spiffing
DeleteThe first one that came to mind today:
ReplyDelete"Two tears in a bucket...motherf*ck it" - the Lady Chablis
(From Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)
Googling that one
DeleteI haven't got a clue.
ReplyDeleteActually, that's probably it.
'I haven't got a clue'
a bit of talcum
ReplyDeleteis always walcum
and
My little dog
A heartbeat at my feet
cheers, parsnip
Thankyou Parsnip..that is my little dog to a T
Deletethehamish was at my feet as I wrote this.
DeleteMy little dog, is a quote by Edith Wharton ..
Delete"you can stand me up at the gates of hell but I won't back down" - tom petty
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like meat loaf
Deletenope, tom petty and the heartbreakers, 1989. it was and is my cancer fight song.
DeleteI like both tom petty and meat loaf
DeleteI like ( Mr) Meat Loaf.
DeleteJesus loves you, but I think you're a c&nt.
ReplyDeleteChin up tits out!
Love these..where on earth are THEY from
Deletelove - chin up, tits out! lmao
DeleteA friend sent me the Jesus love you saying as I work with a woman who's husband is violent towards her but they both think it's ok as they are 'committed Christians'!
DeleteThe chin up one came from one of my blog readers.
Recently adopted:
ReplyDelete"What fresh hell is this?" - John Gray of Going Gently fame.
Not only do I relish the phrase for how it rolls off the tongue, I think it every morning when - with trepidation - I check the news online.
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Id love to remember where i stole this from? Probably a movie
DeleteAccording to Wikiquote, the humorist Dorothy Parker would say "What fresh hell can this be?" whenever she answered her doorbell. "What fresh hell is this?"
DeleteGood ones even repated
ReplyDeleteI am not really sure... but I did think of you this morning, as a client left a Walking Dead quilt here to have the quilting done. John would love this, I thought.
ReplyDeleteBarb
Id bloody love to sleep under daryl dixon
Deletelol John
Delete"The only thing that separates mankind from the animals is our ability to accessorize."
ReplyDeleteAhhhh afan of STEEL MAGNOLIAS, !
Delete"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president". Theodore Roosevelt
ReplyDeleteright now this is my favorite quote!
I wonder why?
Delete:-D
DeleteIf a jobs worth doing badly - its worth doing. And - Things never stay the same. Both mine own.
ReplyDelete"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
ReplyDeleteOr how about: "I always thought it'd be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody."
The talented mr ripley is the second one
DeleteThe other sounds depressing? Zola?
DeleteAnna Karenina
DeleteI should have guessed
DeleteI've always liked - Life's a bitch and then you die! My long passed and much loved Nan always used say - The path of true love never runs smoothly and nor does any other sort of love. She also used say - My head will never save my legs, bless her.
ReplyDeleteI used to say this one a lot
Deletelol, say it with a Southern accent and you will hear my Aunt Claudia ...
DeleteAll things must change and only that which changes remains true.
ReplyDeleteCarl Jung
you can say that again !
ReplyDelete" The mind is like a parachute, It works best when open". Dalai Lama
ReplyDelete"Somebody got flowers. Or as I like to call them, poor people jewelry". Karen Walker, Will and Grace
ReplyDeletehttps://uk.pinterest.com/explore/karen-walker-quotes/
ReplyDeletehttps://uk.pinterest.com/pin/190136415489052162/
DeleteOh honey I would, but I don't want to
No one has guessed mine?
ReplyDeleteHey ho?
DeleteLol...no.....the original quote above.....
DeleteFunny sol funny
John, could your quote be, "Do to others as you would have them do to you" ?
DeleteGreetings Maria x
google says Don Pedro and Beatrice. (At least you said funny, not that I am a half wit! lol)
DeleteMaria! Yes!
DeleteSol got it in one!,
"All the world is queer save thee and me and even thou art a little queer." - Robert Owen
ReplyDelete"So often in the past I would look in your eyes and I would find there forgiveness. Perhaps one day in the future it will be there again. But now I won't be with you, I won't see it."
ReplyDeleteDont tell me...fucking CAMELOT?
Delete"Alternative Facts"
ReplyDeleteKellyanne Conway............
WHAT ????!!!!!?????
"Boldness, again boldness, ever boldness." Can't remember who the author is. Anyone know?
ReplyDeleteCouldnt find this on google? Anyone help?
ReplyDeleteApparently its the English translation from the French Revolution.
DeleteDe l'audace, et encore de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace! Boldness, and again Boldness, and always Boldness!
Georges Jacques Danton - Speech to the French Legislative Committee of General Defense (1792)
"If you tell the truth, you never have to remember anything."
ReplyDeleteMark Twain...and my Mother.
X
And judge judy too
Delete"Be not another, if thou canst be thyself." ~~Paracelsus
ReplyDeleteI can feel " i am what i am" coming on
Delete"Where flowers bloom, so does hope." Eleanor Roosevelt
ReplyDeleteI never heard that one. Simple and graceful
DeleteWhen I remember bygone days
ReplyDeleteI think how evening follows morn;
So many I loved were not yet dead,
So many I love were not yet born.
Thats rather sweet
DeleteIt's by Ogden Nash who wrote a great deal of humorous poetry. This one showed his serious side. It's called "The Middle".
Delete"for the days pass, and never return"
ReplyDelete"I will linger and look back; and at last I will surely see you coming, eager and lighthearted, with all the South in your face!"
The Sea Rat
"I am so angry, I could spit nails"
My Nan
Nan spoke a great deal of sense
DeleteI saw this on a t-shirt recently:
ReplyDeleteDon't believe everything you think.
Welcome to my world
DeleteMy Gugging post of today will interest you.
Delete" she's tuppence lookin down her nose at a'penny "
ReplyDeleteCan you translate that for our " foreign" readers Jason?
DeleteIt's something claire's mum used to say ....universally translates into ' her with nothing is looking down her nose at her with absolutely nothing ' .....hope that makes sense :)
DeleteYes...havent you got one of your own jason?
DeleteI don't do quotes or predictions ...you can quote me on that I never will...
DeleteI doubt that!
DeleteF**kem if they can't take a joke.
ReplyDeleteAuthor, unknown, said since the 70's
In a similar vein to
Delete" dont let the bastards grind you down"
"I don't usually advocate alcohol, drugs, guns and insanity, but it's always worked for me."
ReplyDeleteHunter S. Thompson
Nice one make
DeleteHow about a little Ray Davies?
ReplyDelete"I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola"
Xoxo
Barbara
Shall I call you 056 for short?
DeleteLOL, John !!
DeleteTo any male that is bemoaning not finding something..."Go and have a little girl look!"
ReplyDeleteOuch
DeleteIt's later than you think.
ReplyDeleteDoris Day ... well she sang it! Not sure who wrote it.
"Nothing matters very much and most things don't matter at all" - Arthur Balfour
"Life is mostly sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating. "
O Henry
Sobs and sniffles ....aint THAT the truth
DeleteThe last two are so northern English
ReplyDeleteShe looks like she was rode hard and put away wet.
ReplyDeleteNow that sounds like mae West.....but isnt
Delete"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night." -- Dave Barry
ReplyDeleteIt's not my favorite but it's the first that came to mind for some strange reason.
I would always invite you to a dinner party for exactly the same reason
DeleteDid I not put my quote here ? My favorite of favorites ?
ReplyDeleteYou plan and you plan, then Life happens.
Shit too old friend?
ReplyDeleteGood guys finish last. Only cream and bastards rise
ReplyDeleteI don't know if this counts:
ReplyDelete"It's bound to be someone verrrrrrry important!" (Hyacinth Bucket)
"The Bucket residence, the Lady of the house speaking!"
DeleteLove that series.
"It's me sister Daisy. That's NOT the one with the pool and the pony."
Delete"Knowledge is Power." - Auntie Mame
ReplyDeleteWhile this is not always true as there are lovely wealthy people, I love this one:
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker
"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
ReplyDelete- Winston Churchill
"Never piss into the wind."
ReplyDelete((Overhead at a fish market in Sydney...))
When some asks me why, my response is usually " for shit and giggles".
ReplyDeleteAnd "never postpone joy," jackson browne.
Proverbs: he who has a merry heart ; life is a continual feast.
Absence makes the heart go wander.
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ReplyDeleteIf it ain't broke, don't fix it.
ReplyDeleteMy mother.
Nil bastardum carborundum-
My father ... on the back of an envelope to me at boarding school, knowing full well the nuns read Latin... but perhaps couldn't read his atrocious medical script!
Every child on the way to his first day of school should be told this by a loved one :)
DeleteI thought yours might be from where your blog title came: Do not go gently into that dark night,
ReplyDeleteRage, rage against the dying of the light. (Dylan Thomas?)
I kind of like this one: Comparison is the thief of joy.
Also, This too shall pass.
Favourite movie quotes are often something from Monty Python. -Jenn
Pretty much anything by Dorothy Parker. She was a quote machine.
ReplyDeleteI forgot that the Prof is from Broadstairs! If I run into him in the street I'll tell him hi. I feel certain I would recognize him!
Parker was an A one bitch!
DeleteDitto anything by Dorothy Parker especially if it's about smoke and burning bridges.
ReplyDeleteMy current favourite quote is a bit schmaltzy:
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Pretty Woman: " I was in here yesterday. You wouldn't wait on me. You work on commission right ? Big mistake. Big. Huge. I must go shopping now "
ReplyDeleteanother movie quote
Delete"Don't wizz on the electric fence" - Ren & Stimpy
ReplyDeleteHow can I pick one . . .
ReplyDeleteI save wise words and quotes . . .
Finding tiny pieces of paper where I have scratched down words,
pieces of wisdom, saved in drawers, files, book marks . . . brings me a smile or two, three or more.
And now this entry of yours fills me with more . . .
Here is one . . .
"The only thing you actually have to know,
is the location of the library." ~ alfred einstein
and words I found handwritten on an 1887 postcard . . .
"Friendship is the best college of which you can graduate."
July 8, 1887, Geertje D. Swygman
All quality entries lynne
DeleteI once had 'rudeness is a weak mans attempt to appear strong' in a frame on my desk at work. I went into work one morning and my colleague asked me what it was that the boss had taken from my desk..... The boss confiscated it as he thought it was directed at him.... he felt such a twit when I explained that it was to remind me why the bus driver on my way to work was an ignorant and obnoxious pig.
ReplyDeleteRudeness is a weak mans weapon
DeleteWas one of my mothers!
A recently found one....the chains on her mood swing just snapped!
ReplyDeleteAnd an old Northern Irish one "he's got a quare leg for a button boot" meaning both having a good figure ,and implying they're a bit vain about it...
Great quote, John, and from one of my favourite Shakespeare comedies, "Much Ado about Nothing."
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