Quotation Collector Gifts

'An ounce of prevention is now worth only half a pound of cure, but it was long overdue for a correction.'

Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations

"When shall we three meet again...?"

"Oh, hello, there. Is this Mary Feeney? Hello, there. This is Marty Piletti. I wonder if you recall me. Well, I'm kind of a stocky guy. The last time we met was in the RKO Chester. You was with a friend of yours, and I was with a friend of mine name of Angie." Actually, none of this is true, of course. It's dialogue from the 1955 movie "Marty," starring Ernest Borgnine. In the film, Marty failed to get a date, but Borgnine went on to win an Oscar. I'm hoping to one or both of those things to hap

!?! !?! If panhandling be the food of love, beg on.

Nevermore. You don't have to use "air quoths" every time.

"It is the beautiful bird which gets caged." "A bird doesn't sing because it has as answer, it sings because it has a song." "Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." Wow, Ernie, you're quite the expert on ornithological quotations! Yeah, just call me a "birdbrain."

Literary man talking about a girl

'I wonder what they're moaning about right now?'

'Actually, the glove did fit.'

"I'm a float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, voter."

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

Historical memory is on life support.

'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

"Je suis Descartes, donc, je pense."

"To paraprase Nietzsche, there is no pleasure with out pain au chocolat."

"Oh, this old thing?"

"Say hello to my little friend."

''Science moves but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.' Tennyson.'

"I'm just a girl, standing in front of a buoy..."

Gingerbread Business Classes: Think Outside the Fox.

Girl to boy, 'Mom says don't play it again, Sam.'

Euripides: 'If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.'

Shakespeare. Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. "To be or not to be, that is the question". "We are such stuff …As dreams are made of …" "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would small as sweet." That Shakespeare guy had some neat sound bites.

Ask not for whom happy hour ends. It ends for thee.

"I got those famous last words you wanted"

Buy one beer, get one free. If I may paraphrase a famous quote, "Beer is proof that God has mixed feelings about us and wants us to be hungover."

Shakespeare Street

Man selling 'pearls of wisdom'.

Mortally Wounded at the Battle of Quebec, General James Wolfe Forgets His Last Words

"...Accept finite disappointment, but NEVER LOSE INFINITE HOPE."

''Science moves but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point'. Tennyson.'

"You're a shark! You're a killer! Nothing can stop you! Now get back in that boardroom and apologize."

Larry's Literary Market

The Quotable Ben Franklin. To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. And not flying thy kite during thunderstorms might help, too!