Quotations, Fav Movie Lines, and so on and so forth etc

[jerquer]

The Colonel: "Come, Come Matron, surely you've seen a temperature taken like this before?"

Matron: "Yes, Colonel. But never with a daffodil!"

[MaxJoker]

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

~ John Wooden.


Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

~ Alphonse Karr.


A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

~ John F. Kennedy.

[Baranovich]

"Look, I know you doubt me, I know—I know you always have. And you’re right. I often think of Bag End. I miss my books, and my armchair, my garden… See, that’s where I belong. That’s home. And that’s why I came back. ‘cause… You don’t have one… A home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can."

- The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey - 2012

[tamsmith]

'The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, DC. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.'
Jay Leno.

'Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.'
Bart Simpson.

'Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.'
Victor Borge.

'The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.'
Joan Rivers.

'I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.'
Bernard Manning.

'The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.'
George Carlin.

'Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.'
Johnny Carson.

'Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.'
WC Fields.

[tsunamiSD]

Quote from a fellow sailor :
“I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

[Baranovich]

"There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock..."

- Michael Palin, Monty Python's Life of Brian, 1979

[Baranovich]

"All wings report in."

"Red Ten standing by."
"Red Seven standing by."
"Red Three standing by."
"Red Six standing by."
"Red Nine standing by."
"Red Two standing by."
"Red Eleven standing by."
"Red Five standing by."

"Lock S-Foils in attack position."

"...this is it boys!"

[MaxJoker]

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?.

~ Robert H. Schuller


What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

~ Ralph Marston


In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

~ Robert Frost

[Baranovich]

"During the night old Perkins here got his leg bitten sort of - OFF."

"Any idea how it happened?"

"None whatsoever. Woke up this morning, one sock too many!"


- John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, 1983

[scoundrel]

You're just like Santa Claus, Bud: you've made a list too. It's just that ...everyone on your list has been naughty.

~ Officer Dick Stensland just before Officer Bud White has a bit of a chat with a man he has caught red handed beating his wife.