Category Archives: Words to live by

Everybody’s thankful for something

Got no checkbooks, got no banks.  Still I’d like to express my thanks – I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.

~Irving Berlin

What’s the magic phrase, Steve?

Personally, I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie, and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.

~Stephen Colbert

Say it, Sisters

I want to be Barbie. The bitch has everything.

~ everyone I know

Go ahead and get stewed

Whipped cream isn’t whipped cream at all unless it’s been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn’t a poached egg unless it’s been stolen from the woods in the dead of night!

~Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Mind your manners

Have you ever seen Spode eat asparagus?
No.
Revolting. It alters one’s whole conception of Man as Nature’s last word.

Bertie Wooster