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How about posting some great poetic one liners and anything else literal-ly grasping, and interesting.

Like Dorothy Parker.... She's a favorite.

If you want to see what God thinks of money, just look at all the people He gave it to. — Dorothy Parker


This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. — Dorothy Parker
When asked to use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence: You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think. — Dorothy Parker

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt. — Dorothy Parker


I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. — Dorothy Parker

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be a darling at it. — Dorothy Parker

I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid. — Dorothy Parker
If all the girls at Brandeis were laid end-to-end, I wouldn't be surprised. — Dorothy Parker


Look at him, a rhinestone in the rough. — Dorothy Parker

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. — Dorothy Parker

Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses. — Dorothy Parker

See the happy moron, He doesn't give a damn. I wish I were a moron, My God! Perhaps I am! — Dorothy Parker

That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them. — Dorothy Parker
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of their tires. — Dorothy Parker

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
— Dorothy Parker

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Famous 'Last Words'
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." — Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.


Famous 'Last Words'
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." — Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

Famous 'Last Words'
"But what ... is it good for?" — Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

Famous 'Last Words'
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." — Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.

Famous 'Last Words'
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." — Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

Famous 'Last Words'
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." — Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.


Famous 'Last Words'
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." — The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.

Famous 'Last Words'
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." — Thomas J Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM.

Famous 'Last Words'
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." — Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.

Famous 'Last Words'
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." — Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind." —

Famous 'Last Words'
"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances." — Dr. Lee De Forest, inventor of the vacuum tube and father of television.

Famous 'Last Words'
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." — 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.

Famous 'Last Words'
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" — Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.

Famous 'Last Words'
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." — Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.

Famous 'Last Words'
"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives." — Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project.

Famous 'Last Words'
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a "C," the idea must be feasible." — A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.

Famous 'Last Words'
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" — David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

Famous 'Last Words'
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." — Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment, 1977

Famous 'Last Words'
"This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed." — Harry Guggenheim, millionaire aviation enthusiast.

Famous 'Last Words'
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." — Western Union internal memo, 1876.

Famous 'Last Words'
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." — Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

Famous 'Last Words'
"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons." — Popular Mechanics, March 1949

Famous 'Last Words'
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" — H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

Famous 'Last Words'
"You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training." — Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus.

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coolraoul

I love Oscar Wilde...
My signature is from him, "Cynicism is merely the art of seeing things as they are instead of as they ought to be."

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is delicate and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air

Bigamy is having a wife too many, monogamy is the same.

I have nothing to declare except my Genius.

I have but the simplest taste - I am always satisfied with the best.

Fashion is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them.


Oscar Wilde was really a pure genius..A cynical genius...

Hypersonic

Great thread Alex and great post from Amaury too

My contribution is from Sir Winston Churchill.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

Bessie Braddock: “Sir, you are drunk.”
Churchill: “Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.”

Nancy Astor: “Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.”
Churchill: “If I were your husband I would take it.”

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.

If you are going to go through hell, keep going.

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

A sheep in sheep’s clothing. (On Clement Atlee)

A modest man, who has much to be modest about. (On Clement Atlee)

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.


If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

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