In which I seek to be amused on my breaks

[marnanightingale]

The last round of Animal and Object is fairly recent, so I think it's time for a round of the Quotations Game.

Rules:

1) The first word of your quotation must start with the first letter of the last word of the last quotation.

Example:

"Like them, I left a settled life; I threw it all away" (Stan Rogers, Northwest Passage)
"As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go" (John Donne, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning)
"Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?" (Shakespeare, Hamlet)

2) The result should make for a rough, if surreal, sort of narrative – on at least the fairly low level of the example texts. Otherwise the game isn't much fun. Extra bragging rights are awarded for extreme aptness, funniness, pun creation, double entendre creation, clever refutations, etc. Don't get too hung up on interpreting this rule. Have fun. Try to make your quote fun for whoever gets it. Don't just plug in a quote with no other claim to being there than it beginning with the right letter, basically.

3) All quotes must have attribution. Being reminded of stuff you haven't read in ages is half the fun!

4) Quotations may be from songs, poems, plays, fiction, or reasonably non-specialist prose (i.e. Charles Lamb is in; Malinowski is okay, Problems In Physics, 5th Ed., is right out. Aim for a level where even people who don't recognise the work will vaguely recognise the source)

4) The same source (author, not work) may not be repeated within 5 quotes.

5) Googling to check accuracy is not only allowed but encouraged.

6) Please do not thread comments; it leads to an inability to easily tell which quotation is presently the last.

Have fun! Here is your beginning quotation:

"It lies not in our power to love, or hate/For will in us is over-rul'd by fate." (Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander)

Comments

[sweetmusic-27.livejournal.com]

"Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance and Change? To these all things are subject but eternal Love." (Percy B. Shelley, Prometheus Unbound)

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

"Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks/Within his bending sickle's compass come;" (William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116)

[bipagan.livejournal.com]

"Cum on feel the noise, Girls rock your boys, We'll get wild, wild, wild" (Quiet Riot)

[beable]

“What after all Is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean” (Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not For Burning)

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

"Come, let me sing into your ear/Those dancing days are gone/All that silk and satin gear/Crouch upon a stone." (WB Yeats, Those Dancing Days are Gone)

[hazelhawthorne.livejournal.com]

"Conjecture has no merit." (Spock, as written by Harlan Ellison in The City on the Edge of Forever)

[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

”Man's a kind / of Missing Link,/fondly thinking /he can think.”
(Piet Hein, Mssing Link)

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

"Thou shalt not do as the dean pleases,/Thou shalt not write thy doctor's thesis/On education" (WH Auden, Under Which Lyre?)

[beable]

"Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
Thats how it goes
Everybody knows" (Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows)

[quillori.livejournal.com]

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. (Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

"Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?"

Job 38

[quillori.livejournal.com]

Grace is given of God but knowledge is bought in the market. (A.H. Clough. The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich)

[dorianegray.livejournal.com]

May the curse of Mary Malone and her nine blind, illegitimate children chase you so far over the hills of Damnation that Jesus Christ himself cannot find you with a telescope!

(Sorry, no source known.)

[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

"They fuck you up, your mum and dad. /They may not mean to, but they do. /They fill you with the faults they had / And add some extra, just for you." (Philip Larkin, This Be The Verse)

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

"You have to try. You see a shrink.
You learn a lot. You read. You think.
You struggle to improve your looks.
You meet some men. You write some books."

(Wendy Cope, Some More Light Verse)

[bipagan.livejournal.com]

"Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it." (Coco Chanel)

[dorianegray.livejournal.com]

"I'm going for two falls out of three."

(Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory")

[sweetmusic-27.livejournal.com]

"That crazed girl improvising her music,
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,
Her soul in division from itself
Climbing, falling she knew not where..."

(Yeats, A Crazed Girl)

[bipagan.livejournal.com]

"Where do you go with your broken heart in tow?" (Tegan and Sara)

[benet.livejournal.com]

"To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the Western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew."
-Tennyson, "Ulysses"

[nindulgence.livejournal.com]

Keep, then, the path;
For emulation hath a thousand sons
That one by one pursue.

(Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida)

~

[bipagan.livejournal.com]

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." (Bertrand Russell)

[sraun]

"Rise and shine!" Good Morning, Vietnam

[cleverthylacine]

"Shine on the dazzling darkness
That restores us in deep sleep
Shine on what we throw away
And what we keep"

(Joni Mitchell, Shine)

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

"Kill your darlings." -William Faulkner

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Darlings, did you know there were TWO nine o'clocks in the day? (Tallulah Bankhead, from the set of her first movie).

[nindulgence.livejournal.com]

Down with songs that moan about night and day.
Down with love, just take it away, away.

(Yip Harburg)

~

[lizzie-omalley.livejournal.com]

And when I come to the garden ground,
The whir of sober birds
Up from the tangle of withered weeds
Is sadder than any words.
Robert Frost, A Boys Will, A late walk.

[beable]

We will walk - on the land
We will breathe - of the air
We will drink - from the stream
We will live - hold the line
(Peter Gabriel, San Jacinto)

[ndrosen.livejournal.com]

"Love is too young to know what conscience is/Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?" Shakespeare, Sonnet 151

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

"Let me not to the marriage of true swine
Admit impediments. With his big car
He's won your heart, and you have punctured mine."

(Wendy Cope, Strugnell's Sonnets VI)

[rabidfangurl.livejournal.com]

'My head is bloody, but unbowed.' Invictus, William Ernest Henley

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

"under the blear eyed moon/i am pelted with cast off shoon/but wotthehell wotthehell"

(Don Marquis, the song of mehitabel)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Who or why or which or what
Is the Akond of Swat?

Edward Lear

[xinef.livejournal.com]

She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes.
And she can ruin your faith with her casual lies.
And she only reveals what she wants you to see.
She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.

Billy Joel

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Man is for the woman made,
And the woman made for man;
As the spur is for the jade,
As the scabbard for the blade,
As for digging is the spade,
As for liquor is the can,
So man is for the woman made,
And the woman made for man.

As the scepter to be sway'd,
As for night's the serenade,
As for pudding is the pan,
And to cool us is the fan,
So man is for the woman made,
And the woman made for man.

Be she widow, wife or maid,
Be she wanton, be she stayed,
Be she well or ill array'd,
Whore, bawd or harridan,
Yet man is for the woman made,
And the woman made for man.

Peter Anthony Motteux

[beable]

Men are strange. It's almost unexpected to find they speak English. - Christopher Fry.

[dorianegray.livejournal.com]

Ever and always, body and soul.

(The Sisters of Mercy)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Soul and body part like friends

John Crashaw

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

C.S. Lewis

[beable]

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
- Edgar Allen Poe

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night. (Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night)