The Humor Gazette presents:

What would they say now?



Times have changed. This begs
the question: what would the people who uttered history's most famous quotations say today? Here their
quotes are edited for the modern era.
-- William Shakespeare

 

"Speak softly and carry a big rocket-propelled grenade launcher."

-- Teddy Roosevelt

 

"There's 8,426,541 suckers born
every minute."
-- Phineas T. Barnum


"Float like a butterfly, sting like an
F/A-18E Hornet."
-- Muhammad Ali


"This land is your land, this land is a wholly owned subsidiary
of Disney land."

-- Woody Guthrie



"Let them eat
uranium yellow cake."
-- Marie Antoinette

 

"Like a bridge over
e. coli-rich, industrial waste-infested water."
-- Paul Simon


"Listen my children
and you shall hear ...
of the midnight debauchery of
Paul Revere."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


"A fool sees not the same tax loopholes that a wise man sees."
-- William Blake


"Physician,
medicate thyself
with OxyContin."
-- St. Luke ch. 4, v. 23

 

"I have nothing to offer but digitally remastered Blood, Sweat and Tears."
-- Winston Churchill



"I think about sex 24-7 therefore I am."
-- Rene Descartes

 

"Vodka tends to inebriate, and Absolut vodka inebriates Absolut-ly."
-- Boris Yeltsin


"Hitch your wagon to a Starbucks."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Give me Liberace or give me Megadeath."
-- Patrick Henry


"One should eat McDonalds to live,
and not live to eat McDonalds."
-- Moliere

"All I know is what I see on 'fair and balanced' Fox News."
-- Will Rogers



"Big Uncle Sam is watching you."
-- George Orwell


"The report of my downsizing was an exageration."
-- Mark Twain

 


"A crack house divided against itself cannot stand."

-- Abraham Lincoln

 

-- Mae West

 

-- Pete Townshend, The Who

 

-- John F. Kennedy

 

-- Mark Twain


-- Stanley Laurel

-- Vince Lombardi

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

-- Solemnization of Matrimony

 

-- Isaac Newton

 

-- H.L. Mencken

 

-- George Bernard Shaw

 

-- Popeye

 

-- W.C. Fields

 

-- Allen Ginsberg

-- Charlie Chaplin

-- John Paul Jones

 

-- Horace Greeley

 

-- Kris Kristofferson


-- Joseph P. Kennedy

 

-- Emma Lazarus


"I shot an arrow in the air, it fell to earth ...
and is now Exhibit A in a negligent homicide."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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