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Anthro
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Currently, I'm altering panels of webcomics and inserting a quote into a speech bubble for kicks and giggles. Stuff like, Piro from MegaTokyo beating Largo in a video game; Largo says "Et tu, Brutus?"

I'd like some quotes, please, which are either funny by themselves(read: bizarre) or serious, famous quotes that could be made humerous by the comic they're inserted in. Thank you to all who contribute.

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Raia
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"When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you."
~Samuel Goldwyn

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The following may not be in the correct order.
quote:
Love like you don't need the money.
Work like no one is watching.
Dance like you've never been hurt.

- Scott Adams
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quote:
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
Winston Churchill
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Toretha
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Nothing says "I'm not sucessful" quite like a panty-line
-my roommate's sister

I had thought very seriously about committing hara-kiri over this, but I overselpt this morning
-Japanese minister after being arrested

Nothing is really inevitable as long as you look it in they eyes and say, "You're evitable!"
-Fred in Angel

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The ultimate, in my book:

Let them eat cake!

Marie-Antoinette

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Book
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I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
Georges Duhamel (1884 - 1966)

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)

[ April 01, 2004, 11:59 PM: Message edited by: Book ]

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Stan the man
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quote:
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein

quote:
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Muhammad Ali


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Rolf Singer
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"I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an un-armed man"

"D'oh"

"Sir; if you were my husband I would feed you cyanide"

"Madam; if I were your husband I would take it"

"Never let 'em see you hurt"

Just a few of my favourites.... [Evil]

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"You have to know when to hold,
Know when to fold them,
know when to walk away,
know when to run."

Kenny Rogers, the Gambler.
Also, my rules for dating.

"A Rose by any other name would still smell as sweet."
Shakespeare
or My mother-in-law putting fertilizer in the garden.

"To be or not to be."

Shakespeare's Hamlet
or Disney's Winnie the Pooh.

"Billie Jean is not my lover."

Micheal Jackson, either in a song, or to little Billy and little Gene's parents. I forget which.

"Like a virgin, oooh, touched for the very first time."

Maddonna, either in a song, or ordering from Gigilo's-To-Go.

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"You are not thinking. You are merely being logical" -- Neils Bohr in a debate with Einstein.
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quote:
Let them eat cake!
*cough*marieantoinettedidn'tactuallysaythis*cough*
[Smile]

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"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so."

-Douglas Adams

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Anthro
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Thanks all, especially Rolf and Book--I've thought of panels for yours already.

Ugh. I spent half last night replacing the words in a MT strip with the rhyme "'Oranges and lemons'/Say the bells of St. Clemens." Took forever.

[ April 03, 2004, 01:42 AM: Message edited by: Anthro ]

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fallow
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anthro,

have you tried "lemmings" or "lemurs"?

just a thought.

fallow

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quote:
After being turned down by numerous publishers, he had decided to write for posterity
George Ade

quote:
I married beneath me, all women do.
Nancy Astor

quote:
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
Alan Bennett
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quote:
I married beneath me, all women do.
You know what? This has always bugged me. Why do I have to marry beneath me? I don't want to. I want to marry someone who is simply better. Why do the guys get to marry up? You can't say i'ts because women are better in general. I don't believe it. There are just people, of all kinds.

I know, I know. It's more complicated than that, it's just a saying, really you match weaknesses/strengths, all that. I know. But the saying still bugs me.

[ April 03, 2004, 09:07 PM: Message edited by: katharina ]

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I agree, kat. I hate all "women are superior" things, even more than I hate "men are superior" things.
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Danzig, that's classic. [Smile]
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"Nobody is perfect...well, there was this one guy, but we killed him."--random website [Dont Know]
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If that's referring to Jesus...he wasn't exactly perfect, was he? I mean, there was the whole not-fair-to-take-the-children's-food-and-give-it-to-the-dogs thing, and although he did behave himself after being reprimanded, he did have to have it pointed out to him that he wasn't being nice.

But that's beside the point. Sorry. My quotations.

"Barker," said Auberon Quin suddenly, "where's your red cockatoo? Where's your red cockatoo?"
"What do you mean?" asked Barker, desperately. "What cockatoo? You've never seen me with any cockatoo!"
"I know," said Auberon, vaguely mollified. "Where's it been all the time?"
--G.K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.
--Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing

But I choose to wonder about how babies manage to pass the time.
They can't pass it in tennis or badminton or golf,
Or in going around rescuing people from Indians and then marrying somebody else the way Pocahontas did with the Messrs. Smith and Rolfe.
--Ogden Nash

Among others...but these are nice...

Jen

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