Author Topic: Famous Quotes Remixed (Read 15346 times)

ow_tiobe_sb · « **Reply #30 on:** January 07, 2011, 02:53:00 PM »

Quote from: Viking on January 07, 2011, 02:19:02 PM

Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Give a man a sword, and he can chow down on the meaty marrow of evil!

Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he will eat for a lifetime. (A commonly quoted Chinese proverb.)

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♫ The Algebra has a double for a sidekick--EEEeeeEEEeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!111!.... ♪

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Phantom Bunburyist and Whirled Braker

The Phantom Eyebrow · « **Reply #31 on:** January 07, 2011, 07:23:59 PM »

Quote from: ow_tiobe_sb on January 07, 2011, 02:53:00 PM

♫ The Algebra has a double for a sidekick--EEEeeeEEEeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!111!.... ♪

Bee-Al-Ze-Bub has a Devil for a sideboard*
*okay, okay... a devil put aside for mee-ee, for meee-eee, for MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

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Revenge is like serving cold cuts

Viking · « **Reply #32 on:** January 07, 2011, 07:44:32 PM »

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

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If you can't eat them, boil them.

Reepicheep · « **Reply #33 on:** January 07, 2011, 10:10:00 PM »

If you can't beat them, join them.

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(Done already and recently, I know, but a favourite mashup of mine...)

Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.

Tawodi Osdi · « **Reply #34 on:** January 07, 2011, 10:12:45 PM »

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.~Chinese Proverb

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A Porsche, a Porsche. My Lincoln for a Porsche.

Lord Elcorion · « **Reply #35 on:** January 08, 2011, 06:03:38 AM »

is it "a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!"

there's a gamer bored in my Civic

JeyNyce · « **Reply #36 on:** January 11, 2011, 08:15:47 AM »

There's a baby born every second - (not 100% sure)

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If you can't beat them, then go get a bigger stick!

Viking · « **Reply #37 on:** January 11, 2011, 02:12:22 PM »

I would have guessed that "there's a gamer bored in my Civic" might have mapped to "There's a hole in the bucket, Eliza, Eliza..." or "There's a sucker born every minute," but the parallels to both are kinda tenuous.

Current most easily maps to "If you can't beat them, join them."

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A fool and his money are soon both inducted into a corrupt political party.

(Disclaimer: the above statement is not intended to bear any comment on any particular political party, or to give offense to anybody with particular political leanings. Any similarity to political parties, real or imagined, is purely coincidental.)

Tawodi Osdi · « **Reply #38 on:** January 12, 2011, 12:19:15 AM »

A fool and his money are soon parted.

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Don't fry over-cooked steak.

Glitch Girl · « **Reply #39 on:** January 12, 2011, 01:30:45 AM »

Don't cry over spilled milk.
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A leopard can changes his shorts.

(used quite often in "Unseen Academical" BTW)

Viking · « **Reply #40 on:** January 12, 2011, 05:56:58 PM »

A leopard cannot change its spots.

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We have 'et the enemy, an 'e is tastin' like chicken!

Tawodi Osdi · « **Reply #41 on:** January 13, 2011, 05:34:44 AM »

I have seen the enemy and he is us.~Pogo

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We came. We saw. We ate Fruit Loops.

Lord Elcorion · « **Reply #42 on:** January 13, 2011, 10:51:02 AM »

we came, we saw, we conquered.

and viking had it right on my earlier quote, i was going for 'a sucker born every minute.'

"the grass is always better maintained in someone elses yard"

Viking · « **Reply #43 on:** January 13, 2011, 02:14:52 PM »

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

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Three lefts do make a right.

Tawodi Osdi · « **Reply #44 on:** January 13, 2011, 05:04:25 PM »

Two wrongs don't make a right.

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Laugh, and the world laughs with with you. Slip, and the world laughs at you.

Viking · « **Reply #45 on:** January 17, 2011, 02:38:04 PM »

Smile, and the world smiles with you.

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Mother is the necessity of intervention.

Lord Elcorion · « **Reply #46 on:** January 17, 2011, 03:16:49 PM »

necessity is the mother of invention.

a wise man keeps his mouth closed, and is thought a fool, while a fool opens his mouth, and annoys the heck out of everyone around him.

Glitch Girl · « **Reply #47 on:** January 18, 2011, 03:19:01 AM »

(I think earlier Tawodi Osdi was aiming for "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.")

Is Lord Elcorin's "Better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."?

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Tis better to have loved and lost than to be part of another "...of Love" reality series.

Tawodi Osdi · « **Reply #48 on:** January 18, 2011, 05:34:13 AM »

Tis better to have loved and lost than to never have loved before.

A friend to all is a friend to anchovies.

Viking · « **Reply #49 on:** January 18, 2011, 02:26:41 PM »

A friend to all is a friend to none. --Aristotle

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You can't make an omelette without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others.

Reepicheep · « **Reply #50 on:** January 18, 2011, 03:49:58 PM »

This is either "You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs" or "Never accept an omelette off Viking."

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Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder.

Lord Elcorion · « **Reply #51 on:** January 18, 2011, 05:39:09 PM »

beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I have not yet begun to make waffles!

Tawodi Osdi · « **Reply #52 on:** January 18, 2011, 11:51:01 PM »

I have not yet begun to fight.

Damn the waffles, pour the syrup ahead.

Viking · « **Reply #53 on:** January 19, 2011, 01:52:29 PM »

Quote from: Reepicheep on January 18, 2011, 03:49:58 PM

This is either "You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs" or "Never accept an omelette off Viking."

You know, I never intended the latter as a proverb. But maybe I should...

Current quote relates to "Damn the torpedoes! Full steam ahead!"

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Waste is a terrible thing to mind.

Glitch Girl · « **Reply #54 on:** January 19, 2011, 02:12:33 PM »

A mind is a terrible thing to waste. - United Negro College Fund
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What light through younder window breaks? Ti's a baseball from those damn kids in my yard again.

Tawodi Osdi · « **Reply #55 on:** January 19, 2011, 10:27:39 PM »

What light through yon window breaks, it is the east and Juliet is the Sun.

Alas poor Yorkie, I ran him over with a mower.

Viking · « **Reply #56 on:** January 19, 2011, 11:10:13 PM »

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is!

(Dear God, but Shakespeare could keep a sentence running before he came to a terminal punctuation mark...)

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If the spirits have offended, take milk thistle - your liver's mended!

Tawodi Osdi · « **Reply #57 on:** January 22, 2011, 12:10:53 AM »

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended.

Never ask for whom the the cookies belong; They are for me.

Lord Elcorion · « **Reply #58 on:** January 22, 2011, 02:20:09 PM »

ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee!

if you can't thrash a zombie, you shouldn't go thrashing at all

Tawodi Osdi · « **Reply #59 on:** January 29, 2011, 02:54:40 AM »

If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

Moldy shoulders never cry. They just slump away.

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Author Topic: Famous Quotes Remixed (Read 15346 times)