Favourite Quotes

[I am Rod Hull]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-philip-quotes-relive-90-133848

[Guest]

death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down

Woody Allen

[Guest]

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

Socrates

[Narborough_fox]

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not - Kurt Cobain

[Guest]

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not - Kurt Cobain

I am hated for who I am rather than loved for who I'm not.

[EnderbyFox]

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender." - Tupac Shakur

[Rincewind]

A Good Book

A good book unlike

A vintage wine is consumed

Over and over.

C’est Vie

Like a winters night

Death often arrives too soon

And lasts far too long.

Me

[Haydos]

"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed" from Rome & Juliet - Shakespeare

Love this one.

[Haydos]

"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams."

[21st Century Fox]

"At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom."

"Atheism is a non-prophet organization."

"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."

"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."

"You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar."

- George Carlin.

[Guest]

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

Robert Frost

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

Mae West

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking

Einstein

[jonthefox]

Come with me boy I'm as stiff as a magpie

[Zingari]

'We will fight them on the beaches'

One of the greatest speeches of all time.

Is that from the film Quadrophenia ?

[Trav Le Bleu]

Is that from the film Quadrophenia ?

Brighton Rock.

[Zingari]

Brighton Rock.

Did someone give little pinky a bashing on the beach ?

[Trav Le Bleu]

Did someone give little pinky a bashing on the beach ?

He got made a bishop.

Now here's a question I've often wondered. Did former All Black scrum-half Graeme Bachop ever get bished?

[ajthefox]

Big fan of this thread already, think it could have some legs.

"The hardest part isn't finding out what we need to be, it's being content with who we are

"

Actually a lyric from a song by the Ataris but I think it counts.

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent"

By Calvin Coolidge. Love it.

Also, don't want to divert this too much since it's a speech, but I absolutely love this..

[Guest BlueBrett]

if ifs and buts were candy and nuts..

[FoxesAreBlue]

Big fan of this thread already, think it could have some legs.

"The hardest part isn't finding out what we need to be, it's being content with who we are

"

Actually a lyric from a song by the Ataris but I think it counts.

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent"

By Calvin Coolidge. Love it.

Also, don't want to divert this too much since it's a speech, but I absolutely love this..

Would you mind sending me the link to that speech please?

[ajthefox]

Would you mind sending me the link to that speech please?

click on the title mate and it takes you to youtube

[FoxesAreBlue]

click on the title mate and it takes you to youtube

Cheers! One day I will become conputer literate!

[ajthefox]

If it helps the m key is next to the n

[FoxesAreBlue]

Every day's a school day!

[lavrentis]

"A Man Who Doesnt Spend Time With His Family Can Never Be a Real Man" - Don Corleone

[BoneDog]

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. - Larry Hardiman

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles De Gaulle

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. - Stephen Leacock

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. - Joseph E. Levine

Advertising is a racket. Its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising. - Norman Douglas

And one I read somewhere - "I would like to give a special thanks to all those at the Royal Mail! Without them my neighbours wouldn't know any of my business!"