Unknown. Frankie and Johnny

Famous quotes containing the words frankie and johnny, unknown, frankie and/or johnny:

    Frankie and Johnny were lovers, O lordy how they could love,
    Swore to be true to each other, true as the stars above;
    He was her man but he done her wrong.
    —Unknown. Frankie and Johnny (l. 1–3)

    I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suckers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been.
    Erma Bombeck (20th century)

    Frankie mounted to the scaffold as calm as a girl can be,
    —Unknown. Frankie and Johnny (l. 85)

    It’s nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I’m bloody close.
    John Lydon (formerly Johnny Rotten)