- a virtual oasis for the person who's said everything.
Let's face it, when you're hanging out at any of your favourite haunts or putting in downtime at one of your mandatory appearance locations and participating in the capitalist master narrative, it's nice to have some bon mots to chuck out over lattes and biscotti, even if they're someone else's.
"CONTEXT? I LAUGH IN THE FACE OF CONTEXT! HA HA-HA-HA HA-HA!" -- Archibald Mumbull
If you're looking for an appropriate pellet of wisdom, you might find it here.
You might also want to see what THE SUCKSTERS have to say today.
Feeling academically inclined? Try THE UNIVERSITY OF DOT COM,
and if you're not up to nearly as much as you should be, try cruising
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”I started with nothing and I still have most of it.” -- from a button via Cyril Sapiro’s Bankruptcy Museum via THE NATIONALPOST
”Keep your crayons sharp, your sticky tape untangled, and you markers capped.” -- Mister Dressup (Ernie Coombs) via CBC
”Remember, it’s always darkest just before it goes totally black.” -- from a button via Cyril Sapiro’s Bankruptcy Museum via THE NATIONAL POST
”You can knock forever on a deaf man’s door.” -- Zorba the Greek via BUSINESS COMMUNICATION (Guffy/Rhodes/Rogin)
”Whenever I go to Prince Rupert, I end up walking uphill in the rain.” -- Lorne Elliot via CBC Radio
"If you're here, who's running hell?" -- from TWO GUYS AND A GIRL via Erin Hilton
"Some days you're the dog, and some days you’re the hydrant." -- author unknown via Jon5821
"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left." -- author unknown via RoboTyler
"You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are." -- Edward Albee via Steve Miller
“Comedy is tragedy plus time.” -- Wendy Leiberman via CBC
”The novelist was in his late forties, tall, reddish, and looked as if life had given him an endless stream of two-timing girlfriends, five day drunks and cars with bad transmissions.” -- Richard Brautigan in REVENGE OF THE LAWN
”Loss of short term memory? Nobody voted for that.” -- Lara Bliss
”Fantasy flies in when fact leaves a vacuum.” -- from LETTICE AND LOVAGE by Peter Shaffer
“Men are from earth, women are from earth: deal with it.” -- author unknown via THE FUN PAPE! (Creston, BC)
“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.” -- author unknown via THE FUN PAPE! (Creston, BC)
”Nonsense is better than no sense at all.” -- Archibald Mumbull
”You had to smile to keep from throwing up.” -- Billie Holiday
"A good reputation is one of many tiny annoyances to which I have never been subjected." -- Oscar Wilde via Keith Wyenberg
”Perhaps you’d like a little more of this imprisoned laughter of the pleasant maidens of France.” -- “Egbert” offers more wine in RUGGLES OF RED GAP
”If you’re not careful, you’ll be leaving here in your wooden suit.” -- from ALFIE
”I didn’t know monks had guns.” -- from KUNDUN
”The only time you can’t afford failure is the last time you try.” -- Charles Kettering via a crossword puzzle
”When three people tell you you’re drunk, lie down.” -- Sam Steinberg, via CBC Radio.
”The only people who haven’t sold out are those who haven’t been asked.” -- Norman Mailer via Larry Brody
” They can’t censor the gleam in my eye.” -- Charles Laughton via the INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE
“A thousand miles can be so many ways: just to know who’s driving, what a help it would be.” -- from “I’m Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band)” by The Moody Blues
”On the very green fields of my youth I stomped pun-shod and neigh-nonnied in a nosebag of adjectives.” -- Dylan Thomas via Constantine Fitzgibbon
If you have a clever found nugget you'd like to share (you'll be credited), send it to
gonzotron@geocities.com
and please try to include an author and source, if possible.
If you want to read some stuff written by this BOB guy, try
THIS
or THIS
or even THIS.