Famous Quotes . . .

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"By the pricking of my thumbs/Something wicked this way comes." - Shakespeare, Macbeth

And the timeless wisdom of Homer (Simpson, that is):

"Here's to alcohol. The cause of--and solution to--all of life's problems."

"Kids, you tried your best, and you failed. The lesson is: never try."

"Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids...Eat them!"

"Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel."

"Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything."

"This is everybody's fault but mine."

And his father, Abe or Grandpa, has one of the greatest, craziest speeches in entertainment history (in my opinion):

"We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.

"Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones..."

And...

"Ahh, there's an interesting story behind this nickel. In 1957, I remember it was, I got up in the morning and made myself a piece of toast. I set the toaster to three: medium brown..."