What is your favourite quote?
Posted by: Sniper on 14 May 2010
What is your favourite quote? Maybe a withering put down or something inspirational - maybe something humorous or just plain silly or something that motivates you?
Here is a jewell I stumbled across earlier today...
'Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour'? ~ Robert Owen
Posted on: 18 May 2010 by jayd
"I have seen their backs before."
-Wellington, on French officers turning their backs to him during a state reception
"Verbing weirds language."
-Bill Watterson
Posted on: 18 May 2010 by Bob McC
On seeing a billboard adverising
"Michael Redgrave and Dirk Bogarde - The Sea Shall Not Have Them"
Noel Coward retorted "I don't see why it shouldn't, everyone else has."
Posted on: 19 May 2010 by onip
Those who know the least say it the loudest
Posted on: 19 May 2010 by Jim Lawson
"If lightening strikes, your house and everything in it will be reduced to a black smouldering heap. If you are in the house whilst it is struck, you will no longer be alive, in fact it will be all but impossible to identify your mortal remains.
If the storms come, just listen to your music, enjoy yourself and keep your fingers crossed.
Regards
Mick"
I win.
Posted on: 20 May 2010 by Sir Crispin Cupcake
It's such a fine line between stupid and clever. - David St Hubbins, Spinal Tap
It's deep, think about it.
Rich
Posted on: 22 May 2010 by Jet Johnson
...."A horse may be taken to water but a pencil must be lead" ..(Stan Laurel to Oliver Hardy)
Posted on: 23 May 2010 by Chris Dolan
Mahatma Ghandi - but told to me originally by a Roman Catholic priest
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Posted on: 24 May 2010 by roger poll
For people dealing with the public.
The customer is not an interruption to your working day.
Posted on: 24 May 2010 by DenisA
A scene from
As Good as It GetsReceptionist: I can't resist! You usually move through here so quickly and I just have so many questions I want to ask you. You have no idea what your work means to me.
Melvin Udall: What does it mean to you?
Receptionist: [stands up] When somebody out there knows what it's like...
[place one hand on her forehead and the other over her heart]Receptionist: ... to be in here.
Melvin Udall: Oh God, this is like a nightmare.
[Turns around and presses the elevator button multiple times]Receptionist: Oh come on! Just a couple of questions. How hard is that?
[Scampers up to Melvin]Receptionist: How do you write women so well?Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.Posted on: 25 May 2010 by ewemon
"Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something." - Plato
"For everything you have missed, you have gained something, and for everything you gain, you lose something else." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted on: 25 May 2010 by Dungassin
quote:
Receptionist: How do you write women so well?
Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.
Lovely to be reminded of this quote, but if I tried it out on SWMBO or my daughters I'd have to flee the country.
Posted on: 25 May 2010 by TomK
A young Billy Connolly on meeting Clint Eastwood.
Clint: My grandfather was from Scotland.
Billy: My grandfather was from Eastwood.
Eastwood is a suburb of Glasgow.
Probably apocryphal but told by Billy Connolly on Parkinson as far as I remember.
Posted on: 25 May 2010 by u5227470736789524
God gave man a brain and a penis, but only enough blood supply to operate them one at a time.
Posted on: 25 May 2010 by kevj
From the film 'Christine'
"You can't polish a turd"
Posted on: 27 May 2010 by roger poll
Nostalgia is a thing of the past and therefore has no future.
Posted on: 27 May 2010 by Stephen Tate
"With apologies to the poet Alexander Pope, you could say, for inches and centimetres, let fools contend."
Posted on: 27 May 2010 by J.N.
Concise and simple engineering advice:-
'After tight, comes broken'.
John.
Posted on: 28 May 2010 by GML
If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again.
Stan Laurel.
Posted on: 28 May 2010 by JWM
It's always important to go to people's funerals, or they won't come to yours...
History - it's just one flippin' thing after another...
Posted on: 28 May 2010 by dn1
Whether you think that you can, or you think that you can't, you're probably right. - Henry Ford
Posted on: 28 May 2010 by Peter Dinh
I hate women because they always know where things are. - James Thurber
Posted on: 28 May 2010 by Pigeon_Fancier
I spent most of my money on women and booze.
The rest I wasted.
Posted on: 28 May 2010 by Pigeon_Fancier
If you can't live without me, why weren't you dead when I met you?
Posted on: 28 May 2010 by Pigeon_Fancier
Neither of them mine of course.
Posted on: 28 May 2010 by BigH47
quote:
Originally posted by Peter Dinh:
I hate women because they always know where things are. - James Thurber
Not in our house they bloody don't!
