Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." -- Walt Disney | |
"If the future navigation system [for interactive networked services on the NII] looks like something from Microsoft, it will never work." (Chairman of Walt Disney Television & Telecommunications) | |
"The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was." -- Walt West | |
If you wants to get elected president, you'se got to think up some memoraboble homily so's school kids can be pestered into memorizin' it, even if they don't know what it means. -- Walt Kelly, "The Pogo Party" | |
There is a natural hootchy-kootchy to a goldfish. -- Walt Disney | |
Walt: Dad, what's gradual school? Garp: Gradual school? Walt: Yeah. Mom says her work's more fun now that she's teaching gradual school. Garp: Oh. Well, gradual school is someplace you go and gradually find out that you don't want to go to school anymore. -- The World According To Garp | |
He: Let's end it all, bequeathin' our brains to science. She: What?!? Science got enough trouble with their OWN brains. -- Walt Kelly | |
Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing. -- Walt Kelly, "Potluck Pogo" | |
Deck us all with Boston Charlie, Walla Walla, Wash., an' Kalamazoo! Nora's freezin' on the trolley, Swaller dollar cauliflower, alleygaroo! Don't we know archaic barrel, Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou. Trolley Molly don't love Harold, Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo! -- Pogo, "Deck Us All With Boston Charlie" [Walt Kelly] | |
Ladybug, ladybug, Look to your stern! Your house is on fire, Your children will burn! So jump ye and sing, for The very first time The four lines above Have been put into rhyme. -- Walt Kelly | |
A possum must be himself, and being himself he is honest. -- Walt Kelly | |
Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent. -- Walt Kelly | |
Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon, there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he was so Sad thinking about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday.... -- Walt Kelly | |
Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly | |
Romeo wasn't bilked in a day. -- Walt Kelly, "Ten Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo" | |
Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future. -- Pogo, by Walt Kelly | |
There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our whole lives, win, lose, or draw. -- Walt Kelly | |
Twenty Percent of Zero is Better than Nothing. -- Walt Kelly | |
We have met the enemy, and he is us. -- Walt Kelly | |
We is confronted with insurmountable opportunities. -- Walt Kelly, "Pogo" | |
If the future navigation system [for interactive networked services on the NII] looks like something from Microsoft, it will never work. -- Chairman of Walt Disney Television & Telecommunications | |
To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland. -- Jack Paar |