Since joining Facebook, I have noticed many fb users quoting famous dead people. Of course, I myself found it irresistible doing
the same thing since quoting famous lines always attracted attention. Somehow, that got me thinking to write my own, at least,
just a few silly ones. The idea to make my own stemmed originally from an argument I had with a former fb friend, who, each time I opened
this person's page, the wall was littered with quotations from unknown (?) obscure writers...perhaps, I've been naive myself not
to be reading high-faluting books since leaving college, ages ago. Still, having the initiative to sit down and do some quotations
--tongue-in-cheek, of course, has given me the courage that doing it is a worthwhile effort after all. While not many
readers would care about quotations, I know that quoting people is still being done, with or without acknowledging the author of that
particular line or quotation.
(...although it is only polite and proper to acknowledge its authorship.)
So, here is Part 1 of my Collection of Quotable (?) Quotes(76 quotations) which I started writing and collating in late February 2010.
1. Corruption - it is a byword for laboured trial and error blunder where scandal of expenses are concealed.
2. IQ - I used to be a pretentious intellectual myself, until I was told I had an IQ of nought.
3. Hardship - It would have been a bygone era if mankind stopped devouring it--more so, with false teeth.
4.The Last Supper -a) I dread sitting at the table confronted with the ultimate truth.
-b) A big cause of family spats, hatred and anger, just when I was looking forward to a sumptuous meal.
5.Climate Change - a) I'll buy the biggest parasol.
b) Al Gore may not agree, but he changed his marital status anyway.
6. Martial Law - Declare Martial Law and I'll force everyone to wear a deodorant.
7. Political Commentators - They love themselves more than they love talking about the nature of politics.
8. State of Mind - It depends on the quality of your Bank Acccount.
9. Choice - You have no right to be choosy, not even in national elections.
10. USA - Land of dreams, dullards, and dollars, and, if I'm allowed to add, some dimwits.
11. Commitment - It's like an obscure prison house: once you're in it, your movement is limited to a few walks
a day, albeit with a dog --or not.
12. Idle Gossip - a) A cluster of lips bounded by disguised camaraderie.
b) It is unassuming in its recklessness.
13. Being Childless - A reality borne out of fear of natural birth, notwithstanding excruciating pain for others.
14. Clocks - I wish I could turn the clock back--I could have kept all my teeth intact.
15. Ageism - Separating those who had cosmetic surgery and botox, and those who couldn't afford both.
16. Rules - Advicing people to pay attention only to rule themselves out for the entire period.
17. Debates a)- A fine detail only when you win it...
b) - When an uncontrollable environment embraces aggression, not assertiveness.
18. Internet - a) Engaging and getting to the primary cause of not having saliva wasted.
b)- Just fingers needed to re-inforce one's ideas and thoughts.
19. Payback - It doesn't come back quickly enough.
20. Being Superb - It's a belief that one's own finery becomes rudimentary in the face of awesome
retribution and failure.
21. Holy Week - a) A week of blood-letting, cumbersome costumes and false piousness...
b)- It's one of boredom, in the guise of reckless intrusion and onion-assisted crocodile tears.
22. Thinking - Instigate it with gender-bender accuracy either by necessity or choice.
23. Being Profound - If it's utterly empty, it's because the vessel taken was rusty.
24. Security - a) It adds elegance to people's sense of fear.
b)- Those gates are too high to climb and social climbers will fall flat begging for attention.
25. Sentimental Value - When all else fails, get rid of it, otherwise, you devalue your own sentiments.
26. The Academe - a) When counting grades, accidental bias, favouritism and significant rubbing of elbows
come to fray.
-b) A place where too much reading of famous people's works becomes a sore point in
your backside.
27. Soundbites - Politicians are known to wise-crack all the time. When the bite happens, the sound
reverberates like a sling shot to their insensitive ways.
28. TV/Radio Presenters - Hell, politicians aren't my cup of tea anymore than having rude presenters
overplay their mission to deafen the interviewee and the listeners.
29. Footballers - Highly-paid, basically semi-illiterate, whose wealth will never exceed the number of
cells in their tiny brain, unless they give some of their money to us, respectability
will always be a sporting mission.
30. Celebrities - If they celebrate in a normal way, it's up to them to tone down their exuberance.
It's an effective treatment for their unnecessary pursuit of bad behaviour--off and on.
31. Facebook - a) It overrides belief that you're judged first before you're seen.
- b) It's when intelligence comes second to popularity.
32. Getting To Know Each Other - Not in our lifetime!
33. Mobile Phone - It conflicts with nature as we know it while getting attached permanently to those
stubborn ears, yelling secrets for others to hear.
34. Arguments - Too noisy to share, too violent to show, too frank to accept but endearing in its concept.
35. Product/Brand - Half of mankind would either eat it or spit it out, but Tiger Woods' Nike ball will still do the talking.
36. Liars - They are aware theyr'e lying to their teeth, and if that's anything to go by, go check them...no,
not the teeth.
37. Mental Illness - It's like listening to our guts explaining the rudiments how the vital organs sound and work.
38. Courting -a) If courting is corny, wait until you see the judge in court.
-b) The judge sees the couple part ways after a day in court.
39.Revolutionary Change - Secrets are exposed and conclusions begin.
40. Dictators - From disgrace to oblivion, they're handed quietly to shadier links.
41. Dialogue - It will never be a sting, without clinging to unwanted spies.
42. Business - They change tactics, ideals and dogma, while flaunting their antics.
43. Political Reform - It's a piece of paper that promises no bounty.
44. Democratic Countries - All democratic countries have their own torture chambers. Let's stop
pretending they only run sweet shops.
45. Trust - It is relative. We can be trusting to the point of stupidity, and trustworthy to the
point of desperation.
46. Democracy - Just another paper trail, the odd sip of brandy and smuggled Cuban cigars.
47. Writing History - Another waste of ungodly hours,embellished lies, wild imagination with
fancy semantics to force you back to sleep.
48. Vulgarity - It's not an open suggestion, rather an action that's easy to emote.
49. Third World - a piece of this, a piece of that, politicians' lips hardly get dry.
50. Norm of Diplomacy - a) The country they serve aims for higher gloss.
-b) It's a refuge for duplicity, encountering all its flaws.
51. Emigrating - a) Cultural differences slam the distinction and done at random.
-b) Where entry of the moneyed legals clearly pleases authorities' faces.
52. Thoughts of Dying - It's when you lie in bed imagining it as a rebuff.
53. Nobody - The feeling is like a piece of abandoned remnant.
54. Social Friends - Watch their usual smile and pretense, observe them sit and get intense.
55. Big Minds - Demand no shallow reason, often, they're ahead of what's affirmation.
56. Small Minds - Starkly ignorant of a puzzled exchange.
56. Growing Old - Declining years oversee the pensioners' queue.
57. Husbands - Happily around when things go right, sending the mood makes a quiet rebound.
58. Third World - Noodles and French fries not easy to get hold of, while those in power share
nothing but cold and cough.
59. Flirting - An outcome so delicious, magnifying sensation.
60. Diplomacy -a) The veracity of bad news is imposed by its wake.
-b) Handling warfare and welfare can be a grave mistake.
61. Fine Mess - The deeper you get it worsens, acknowledge that rotten mound instead.
62. Poetry-Writing - It is sharpened intellect, outsmarting all nonsensical marketing.
63. Emotion - You are an object of some low esteem.
64. Retirement - You gaze at nowhere, mindful of the task.
65. Falling On Hard Times - Oh! for heaven's sakes, it's real!
66. Third World - Countries impound corporations, sealing them with chrome.
67. Time-out - For reasons unknown, it becomes deplorable.
68. Peace - It can only be achieved, piece by piece.
69. Poverty - The inside dealings and handshakes between the poor and the powerful nicely co-exist.
70. Religion - Its true meaning needs no room for predilection.
71. Family Planning - It's no more than an extra pep talk.
72. Politicians -When they need people's vote, they're around, constantly smiling.
73. Wall Street - Indifference and expediency clash with so much pity.
74. Hunger - People expect everything to be handed in a Chinese wok.
75. Fighting Spirit - It's what you often stress.
76. Thoughts - All thoughts are recycled.
(Copyright 2010, Hill Roberts, Marbella, Spain)
(Anyone can use quotation with proper acknowledgment to the Author )
Permission will be granted to use my quotes who seek it. Thanks!
without which, the earnings fall short of the outcome.
