- Arthur Unknows
Quotation and word phrase comedy. Twisted, tweaked, and thoughtful views on famous quotes, unfamous quotes and word phrases. Enjoy.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Feeding Darwin
“Do not go where the path may lead, go
instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Context is a funny thing… this is a riddle out of context,
however we must surmise that Ralphie is suggesting that you should be yourself
and blaze your own. Okay I get it – I
feel sorry for the soul that takes this advice and gets eaten by the Darwin fish.”
- Arthur Unknows
Friday, October 26, 2012
Lied Forlay
“I would rather trust a woman's instinct
than a man's reason.”
- Stanley Baldwin
- Stanley Baldwin
“Men will say anything to seek favor with a woman – yes
ladies anything.”
- Arthur Unknows
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Off Ended Remark
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
- William Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare
“Will.I.Am Shakes Spear – would I offend with a caricature
of that?”
- Arthur Unknows
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
PorP - Passed or Past
“But time growing old teaches all things.”
- Aeschylus
- Aeschylus
“Information is not all passed on, but past on.”
- Arthur Unknows
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Webcrawling SuperHighway
“Getting information off the Internet is
like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.”
- Mitchell Kapor
- Mitchell Kapor
“Then you’re doing it wrong – seek
advice.”
- Arthur Unknows
Monday, October 22, 2012
GO Victor Tango abbr
“The first rule of any technology used in a
business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the
efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation
will magnify the inefficiency.”
- Bill Gates
- Bill Gates
“The second sentence describes one
thing well; government at work.”
- Arthur Unknows
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Assembly Line of Morals
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping
together is progress; working together is success.”
- Henry Ford
- Henry Ford
“Coming together is a courtship; keeping
together is marriage; working together is family.”
- Arthur Unknows
Friday, October 19, 2012
Haute Twaute Shautes
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have
faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and
duplicate it.”
- Bruce Lee
- Bruce Lee
Definition of Modern Actress:
“Always be
someone else, express someone else, have faith in someone else, go out and look
for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
- Arthur Unknows
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Bacon Gas
“I am building a fire, and everyday I
train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.”
- Mia Hamm
- Mia Hamm
“I am building flatulence, and every
Mexican meal I eat, I add more fuel. At
just the right moment – BLUE FLAMES.”
- Arthur Unknows
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Posterior Leadership
“One of the penalties for refusing to
participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
- Plato
- Plato
“Let’s make this a little more succinct
– ‘You don’t vote; you will be governed by various posteriors.”
- Arthur Unknows
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Saturday, October 13, 2012
EA Poe - Has 8 Lives Remaining
“I wish I could write as mysterious as a
cat."
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edgar Allan Poe
“You just did.”
- Arthur Unknows
Friday, October 12, 2012
Hindsight
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the
whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Mahatma Gandhi
“I am going into the eye patch business,
right here, right now… dibs.”
- Arthur Unknows
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Meaning De minimus
“He is richest who is content with the
least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
- Socrates
- Socrates
“It’s Greek to me.”
- Arthur Unknows
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Shorthands...
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
- Leo Tolstoy
- Leo Tolstoy
If that’s true…
“Then a Smile is the shorthand of
Welcome.”
- Arthur Unknows
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Mete It
“A creative man is motivated by the desire
to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
- Ayn Rand
- Ayn Rand
“When the desire to achieve is
obstructed by man, then the motivation to beat others is achieved and meted equivocally
by said desire.”
- Arthur Unknows
Friday, October 5, 2012
Obey Thy Name Statement
“A woman knows the face of the man she
loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
- Honore de Balzac
- Honore de Balzac
“The person is real, however his name
is raunchy.”
- Arthur Unknows
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Dupe-plicity
“Believe that life is worth living and your
belief will help create the fact.”
- William James
- William James
“You know he could be addressed as:
Bill Jim. And ‘Bill Jim.’ is a short statement.”
- Arthur Unknows
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Short Attent...
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people
aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
- Steve Jobs
- Steve Jobs
Like Today Generation:
“What’s a Yardstick?”
“A unit of measurement representing 3 feet in length and don’t
give them an inch… for those born after 1990 - I will define an ‘inch’ next
week. Ah who am I kidding the attention
span for Today’s Generation quit reading at the word ‘measurement’.”
- Arthur Unknows
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Confucius Confuse Us
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of
one's ignorance.
- Confucius
- Confucius
“You don’t know what you don’t know. When you recognize that you don’t know
something about a subject - you now miraculously have more knowledge? I think the translation was incorrect and the
translator needed to know their subject better or have ‘Real knowledge’.”
- Arthur Unknows
Monday, October 1, 2012
Counter-Quote Using Antonyms 1.0
“Find a place inside where there's joy, and
the joy will burn out the pain.”
- Joseph Campbell
- Joseph Campbell
Counter-Quote Using Antonyms
“Find Lose a place inside outside where
there’s joy woe, and the joy woe will burn quench the pain
pleasure.”
- Arthur Unknows
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