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Needmylifeback
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08-14-2000

Sunday, August 03, 2008 - 8:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Needmylifeback a private message Print Post    
Another one for you Jessie..(and others I guess)

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If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

W. C. Fields

Nickovtyme
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07-29-2004

Sunday, August 03, 2008 - 9:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nickovtyme a private message Print Post    
"Sometimes a little brain damage can help."

George Carlin, RIP

Sanfranjoshfan
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09-17-2000

Sunday, August 03, 2008 - 11:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sanfranjoshfan a private message Print Post    
"Better a broken promise than none at all."

- Mark Twain

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

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Freetimefinally said:


quote:

This is one they should use but I don't believe ever do.

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. - Sun-tzu Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC)




Keesha just quoted that in a conversation with Libra.

Delurker
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08-19-2005

Monday, August 04, 2008 - 6:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Delurker a private message Print Post    
Walter Lippmann:

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

Judyg8or
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08-07-2007

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"None of us is dumber than all of us." - Anonymous

Needmylifeback
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08-14-2000

Monday, August 04, 2008 - 8:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Needmylifeback a private message Print Post    
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill

(Change pants to shirt .. and you've got this game in Jessie's mind)

Westex
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07-11-2008

Monday, August 04, 2008 - 8:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Westex a private message Print Post    
Saw this on a t-shirt somewhere. Seems to me to be a perfect fit for this screen-cap. (I don't know who said the 'quote' or who captured the picture.)

"One .jpg is worth a thousand .txts."

dan hugging jessie

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Monday, August 04, 2008 - 1:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
This is SUCH a great thread! I dash in as soon as I see a new post to it!

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

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I also love this thread. Thanks SFJF for starting it.


Zgoodgirl
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08-22-2003

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"We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger."

--Tad Williams

Needmylifeback
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08-14-2000

Monday, August 04, 2008 - 2:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Needmylifeback a private message Print Post    
When George Washington was around the age of 16 he had a penmanship assignment .. the result - George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior.

I'm going to begin posting them... you will be amazed how you can apply it (or not! LOL!) to the BB House.

There are over 110 of them .. so this may take a few days to cover them all .. but for your enjoyment .. I will gladly post! (And I will refrain from making my own comments to each one while I post them.. so you can make your own!) LOL! That's going to be the difficult part! I am putting the comment/translation from the website I found this on...


1. Every action done in company, out to be with some sign of respect, to those that are present. (Treat everyone with respect)

2. When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered.

3. Show Nothing to your Friend that may affright him. (Be considerate of others. Do not embarrass others.)

4. In the presence of others sing not to yourself with a humming noise, nor drum with your fingers or feet.

5. If you cough, sneeze, sigh, or yawn, do it not loud but privately' and speak not in your yawning, but put your handkerchief or hand before your face and tun aside.

Needmylifeback
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08-14-2000

Monday, August 04, 2008 - 2:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Needmylifeback a private message Print Post    
George's Rules cont.

6. Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not on when others stop.

7. Put not off your clothes in the presence of others, nor go out your chamber half dressed.

8. At play and at fire it's good manners to give place to the last commer, and affect not to speak louder than ordinary.

9 Spit not in the fire, nor stoop low before it neither put your hands into the flames to warm them, nor set your feet upon the fire especially if there be meat before it.

10. When you sit down, keep your feet firm and even, without putting on on the other or crossing them.

Needmylifeback
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08-14-2000

Monday, August 04, 2008 - 2:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Needmylifeback a private message Print Post    
Good old George W.. the original one!

11. Shift not yourself in the sight of others nor gnaw your nails.

12. Shake not the head, feet or legs, roll not the eyes, lift not one eyebrow higher than the other wry not the mouth, and bedew no mans face with your spittle, by approaching too near him when you speak.

13. Kill nor Vermin as Fleas, lice ticks and (C) in the sight of others, if you see any filth or thick spittle put your foot dexterously upon it if it be upon the cloths of your companions, put it off privately, and if it be upon your own cloths return thanks to him who puts it off.

14. Turn not your back to others especially in speaking. jog not the table or desk on which another reads or writes, lean not upon any one.

15. Keep your nails clean and short, also your hands and teeth. Clean yet without showing any great concern for them.

Chellie67
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07-11-2008

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I think everyone will be able to use this quote by the end of the show, but this week April can use it.....

Et tu, Brute? - Julius Caesar

Needmylifeback
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08-14-2000

Monday, August 04, 2008 - 2:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Needmylifeback a private message Print Post    
George some more:

16. Do not puff up the cheeks, loll not out the tongue rub the hands, or beard, thrust out the lips, or bite them or keep the lips too open or too closed.

17. Be no flatterer, neither play with any that delights not to be play'd with all.

18. Read no Letters, books or papers in company but when there is a necessity for doing of it you must ask leave: come not near the books or writings of another so as to read them unless desired or give your opinion of them unasked also look not nigh when another is writing a letter.

19. Let your countenance be pleasant but in serious matters somewhat grave.

20. The gestures of the body must be suited to the discourse you are upon.

Needmylifeback
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08-14-2000

Monday, August 04, 2008 - 2:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Needmylifeback a private message Print Post    
The "Father" of our country speaks some more:

21. Reproach none for the infirmities of nature, nor delight to put them that have in mind thereof.

22. Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another though he were your enemy.

23. When you see a crime punished, you may be inwardly pleased. but always show pity to the suffering offender.

24. Do not laugh too loud or too much as any public spectacle. (Don't draw attention to yourself)

25. Superfluous complements and all affection of ceremony are to be avoided, yet where due they are not to be neglected.

Calimom3
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07-12-2007

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"I guess I forgot to duck..." ---Ronald Reagan (after he was shot)

Needmylifeback
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08-14-2000

Monday, August 04, 2008 - 3:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Needmylifeback a private message Print Post    
26 - 30+ really don't apply (as far as I can tell..) but here they are. (These were cut/pasted directly .. with all the errors).

26th In Pulling off your Hat to Persons of Distinction, as Noblemen, Justices, Churchmen &c make a Reverence, bowing more or less according to the Custom of the Better Bred, and Quality of the Person. Amongst your equals expect not always that they Should begin with you first, but to Pull off the Hat when there is no need is Affectation, in the Manner of Saluting and resaluting in words keep to the most usual Custom.

27th Tis ill manners to bid one more eminent than yourself be covered as well as not to do it to whom it's due Likewise he that makes too much haste to Put on his hat does not well, yet he ought to Put it on at the first, or at most the Second time of being asked; now what is herein Spoken, of Qualification in behavior in Saluting, ought also to be observed in taking of Place, and Sitting down for ceremonies without Bounds is troublesome.

28th If any one come to Speak to you while you are are Sitting Stand up though he be your Inferior, and when you Present Seats let it be to every one according to his Degree.

29th When you meet with one of Greater Quality than yourself, Stop, and retire especially if it be at a Door or any Straight place to give way for him to Pass.

30th In walking the highest Place in most Countries Seems to be on the right hand therefore Place yourself on the left of him whom you desire to Honor: but if three walk together the middest Place is the most Honorable the wall is usually given to the most worthy if two walk together.

Needmylifeback
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08-14-2000

Monday, August 04, 2008 - 3:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Needmylifeback a private message Print Post    
even more George...

31st If any one far Surpasses others, either in age, Estate, or Merit yet would give Place to a meaner than himself in his own lodging or elsewhere the one ought not to except it, So he on the other part should not use much earnestness nor offer it above once or twice.

32nd To one that is your equal, or not much inferior you are to give the chief Place in your Lodging and he to who 'is offered ought at the first to refuse it but at the Second to accept though not without acknowledging his own unworthiness.

33rd They that are in Dignity or in office have in all places Precedency but whilst they are Young they ought to respect those that are their equals in Birth or other Qualities, though they have no Public charge.

34th It is good Manners to prefer them to whom we Speak before ourselves especially if they be above us with whom in no Sort we ought to begin. .

35th Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. When you speak, be concise

Needmylifeback
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08-14-2000

Monday, August 04, 2008 - 3:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Needmylifeback a private message Print Post    
George cracks me up!

36th Artificers & Persons of low Degree ought not to use many ceremonies to Lords, or Others of high Degree but Respect and highly Honor them, and those of high Degree ought to treat them with affability & Courtesy, without Arrogance.

37th In speaking to men of Quality do not lean nor Look them full in the Face, nor approach too near them at lest Keep a full Pace from them.

38th In visiting the Sick, do not Presently play the Physician if you be not Knowing therein.

39th In writing or Speaking, give to every Person his due Title According to his Degree & the Custom of the Place.

40th Strive not with your Superiors in argument, but always Submit your Judgment to others with Modesty. Do not argue with your superior. Submit your ideas with humility.

41st Undertake not to Teach your equal in the art himself Professes; it Savours of arrogance.


42nd Let thy ceremonies in Courtesy be proper to the Dignity of his place with whom thou converses for it is absurd to act the same with a Clown and a Prince.

43rd Do not express Joy before one sick or in pain for that contrary Passion will aggravate his Misery.

44th When a man does all he can though it Succeeds not well blame not him that did it. When a person does their best and fails, do not criticize him.

45th Being to advise or reprehend any one, consider whether it ought to be in public or in Private; presently, or at Some other time in what terms to do it & in reproving Show no Sign of Cholar but do it with all Sweetness and Mildness. (When you must give advice or criticism, consider the timing, whether it should be given in public or private, the manner and above all be gentle.)

Needmylifeback
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08-14-2000

Monday, August 04, 2008 - 3:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Needmylifeback a private message Print Post    
He was a wise one that George...

46th Take all Admonitions thankfully in what Time or Place Soever given but afterwards not being culpable take a Time & Place convenient to let him him know it that gave them. (If you are corrected, take it without argument. If you were wrongly judged, correct it later.)

47th Mock not nor Jest at any thing of Importance break [n]o Jest that are Sharp Biting and if you Deliver any thing witty and Pleasant abstain from Laughing thereat yourself. (Do not make fun of anything important to others)

48th Wherein you reprove Another be unblameable yourself; for example is more prevalent than Precepts. (If you criticize someone else of something, make sure you are not guilty of it yourself. )

49th Use no Reproachful Language against any one neither Curse nor Revile.

50th Be not hasty to believe flying reports of others. (Do not be quick to believe bad reports of others)

Needmylifeback
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08-14-2000

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Now it's time for George to talk about dressing.. and not the kind that goes with turkey...

51st Wear not your Cloths, foul, ripped or Dusty but See they be Brushed once every day at least and take heed that you approach not to any Uncleaness.

52nd In your Apparel be Modest and endeavor to accommodate Nature, rather than to procure Admiration keep to the Fashion of your equals Such as are Civil and orderly with respect to Times and Places.

53rd Run not in the Streets, neither go too slowly nor with Mouth open go not Shaking your Arms kick not the earth with R feet, go not upon the Toes, nor in a Dancing fashion.

54th Play not the Peacock, looking every where about you, to See if you be well Decked, if your Shoes fit well if your Stockings sit neatly, and Cloths handsomely.

55th Eat not in the Streets, nor in the House, out of Season.

56th Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'is better to be alone than in bad Company.

57th In walking up and Down in a House, only with One in Company if he be Greater than yourself, at the first give him the Right hand and Stop not till he does and be not the first that turns, and when you do turn let it be with your face towards him, if he be a Man of Great Quality, walk not with him Cheek by Joul but Somewhat behind him; but yet in Such a Manner that he may easily Speak to you.

58th Let your Conversation be without Malice or Envy, for 'is a Sign of a Tractable and Commendable Nature: And in all Causes of Passion admit Reason to Govern.

(Always allow reason to govern your actions)



59th Never express anything unbecoming, nor Act against the Rules Moral before your inferiors.

(Never break the rules in front of your subordinates)

Needmylifeback
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08-14-2000

Monday, August 04, 2008 - 3:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Needmylifeback a private message Print Post    
I wonder how George would have done in this house?


60th Be not immodest in urging your Friends to Discover a Secret.

Some things are better kept secret

61st Utter not base and frivolous things amongst grave and Learned Men nor very Difficult Questions or Subjects, among the Ignorant or things hard to be believed, Stuff not your Discourse with Sentences amongst your Betters nor Equals.

62nd Speak not of doleful Things in a Time of Mirth or at the Table; Speak not of Melancholy Things as Death and Wounds, and if others Mention them Change if you can the Discourse tell not your Dreams, but to your intimate Friend.

63rd A Man ought not to value himself of his Achievements, or rare Qualities of wit; much less of his riches Virtue or Kindred.

(A person should not overly value their own accomplishments)

64th Break not a Jest where none take pleasure in mirth Laugh not aloud, nor at all without Occasion, deride no mans Misfortune, though there Seem to be Some cause.

65th Speak not injurious Words neither in Jest nor Earnest Scoff at none although they give Occasion.

66th Be not froward but friendly and Courteous; the first to Salute hear and answer & be not Pensive when it's a time to Converse.

67th Detract not from others neither be excessive in Commanding.

(Do not detract from others nor be overbearing giving orders)

68th Go not thither, where you know not, whether you Shall be Welcome or not. Give not Advice without being Asked & when desired do it briefly.

(Do not go where you are not wanted. Do not give unasked for advice)

69th If two contend together take not the part of either unconstrained; and be not obstinate in your own Opinion, in Things indifferent be of the Major Side.

(If two people disagree do not take one side or the other. Be flexible in your own opinions and when you don’t care, take the majority opinion.)

Needmylifeback
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08-14-2000

Monday, August 04, 2008 - 3:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Needmylifeback a private message Print Post    
I know it is a lot all at once .. but I have the time... LOL!

70th Reprehend not the imperfections of others for that belongs to Parents Masters and Superiors.

(Do not correct others when it is not your place to do so.)

71st Gaze not on the marks or blemishes of Others and ask not how they came. What you may Speak in Secret to your Friend deliver not before others.

72nd Speak not in an unknown Tongue in Company but in your own Language and that as those of Quality do and not as the Vulgar; Sublime matters treat Seriously.

73rd Think before you Speak pronounce not imperfectly nor bring out your Words too hastily but orderly & distinctly.

74th When Another Speaks be attentive your Self and disturb not the Audience if any hesitate in his Words help him not nor Prompt him without desired, Interrupt him not, nor Answer him till his Speech be ended.

75th In the midst of Discourse ask not of what one treateth but if you Perceive any Stop because of your coming you may well intreat him gently to Proceed: If a Person of Quality comes in while your Conversing it's handsome to Repeat what was said before.

76th While you are talking, Point not with your Finger at him of Whom you Discourse nor Approach too near him to whom you talk especially to his face.

77th Treat with men at fit Times about Business & Whisper not in the Company of Others.

78th Make no Comparisons and if any of the Company be Commended for any brave act of Virtue, commend not another for the Same.

Don’t compare yourselves amongst yourselves

79th Be not apt to relate News if you know not the truth thereof. In Discoursing of things you Have heard Name not your Author always A Secret Discover not.

Do not be quick to talk about something when you don’t have all the facts.