Comments about ‘Some words of wisdom from movies’

And, Chris, don't forget that timely advice given by Steve Martin in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels": "It is better to give than to not."

"It's not the money I love, Pa--it's the not havin' it I hate." Debbie Reynolds, "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" (1964)

"Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me.....
show me the way... show me the way."

Jimmy Stewart, "Its a Wonderful Life" (1946)

...it's what we do with the time that we are given.

Ian McKlellan, "The Fellowship of the Ring" (2003)

...... to whoever started the LOTR quotes!! We could go on all day.

I, too, will add one from Gandalf:

"Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."

In "Mr. Mom" TV repair person to Michael Keaton's character: "Are you crazy? You don't fee a baby chili!"

220 221 whatever it takes

Every time I hear a politician of either party talk, I think of the line from the film "Billy Madison":

"Nowhere in your rambling, incoherent, response did you come close to anything that resembled a rational thought. We are all dumber for having heard it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

"Sometimes there just aren't enough rocks."

There is a story about the Greek Gods; they were bored so they invented human beings, but they were still bored so they invented love, then they weren't bored any longer. So they decided to try love for themselves. And finally, they invented laughter, so they could stand it.
~ Professor Harry Stevenson, Feast of Love

"There is no other hand!"

Wax on. Wax off.

LOTR (or should be)

If you line up enough hobbitses head to toe you'll eventually have a long line of hobbitses, my precious.

from Life of Brian:
All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."

"The time is coming when we will have to choose between what is right, and what is easy." -Dumbledore