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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: GUEST,Dáithí Date: 07 Jul 09 - 04:46 AM guest Beachcomber...that is a peculiar mixture of Latin and Greek!! |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Dorothy Parshall Date: 07 Jul 09 - 12:06 AM Like the bee gathering honey from different flowers,the wise man(woman) accepts the essence of different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.' (The Srimad Bhagavatam--The Wisdom of God). |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Commander Crabbe Date: 06 Jul 09 - 09:09 PM Man and woman who lay on bedspring, soon get offspring. Unknown Because things are the way they are, they will not stay the way they are. Josef Frankl (I think) Whatever you are, be a good one. Unknown Do what you can, with what you have. Dwight D Eisenhower (I think) CC |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Aeola Date: 06 Jul 09 - 05:35 PM It's a funny old world - a man's lucky if he gets out of it alive. W.C.Fields On committees;- A group that takes minutes and wastes hours! To get something done a committee should consist of no more than 3 men, 2 of whom are absent! |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: GUEST,beachcomber Date: 06 Jul 09 - 04:01 PM Micca I had that no1 as "Timoumen Hellades kai Dona Ferentes" (I have tried to spell it phoenetically ) My fav :- "My author and disposer, what thou bid'st un argued I obey. So God ordains. God is thy law, thou mine; To know, no more is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise." John Milton |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Amos Date: 06 Jul 09 - 02:16 PM A few choice items from A.C. Grayling, British thinker: "Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends. I'm not sure it is possible to think too much. You don't refresh your mind by partying in Ibiza. Life is all about relationships. By all means sit cross-legged on top of a mountain occasionally. But don't do it for very long. Every professor of philosophy needs a nine-year-old daughter. Mine has a habit of saying, "Daddy, that is a very silly idea." She is always right." |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: GUEST,Lighter Date: 03 Jul 09 - 09:21 AM Christopher Weyant: Cartoon lawyer says, "Give a man a fish, he'll eat for day. Teach a man to sue, and he'll eat for a lifetime." |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Gedi Date: 03 Jul 09 - 08:43 AM From the song "The Plainsman" by Fairport Convention... "The world is full of silver tongues with good advice to give, But if you can't show me how to die, don't tell me how to live." |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Mr Red Date: 03 Jul 09 - 07:33 AM From an unmemorable critic (without recognition of the irony) in the recent plethora of Michael Jackson analysis about his refusal to discuss the minutia of his motivation and his creativity - and his lifestyle. "It is difficult to define Michael Jackson, he is not black and white". |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: RamblinStu Date: 03 Jul 09 - 03:08 AM And tomorrow is always the rest of your life Stuart Pendrill |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Micca Date: 02 Jul 09 - 04:29 AM Two that I had printed and framed on my desk as reminders when dealing with Academics when working for a University 1 Timeo Danaeos et dona ferentes ( I mistrust these Greeks even if bearing gifts)The Aenied, Virgil 2 Put not your faith in Princes Psalm 146:3 Bible |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 02 Jul 09 - 02:11 AM "Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die." – John Taylor Gatto |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Alice Date: 01 Jul 09 - 07:58 PM One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Art Thieme Date: 01 Jul 09 - 07:11 PM Whenever I begin to feel the slightest bit self important, I think of all the dirt that never did get a chance to sit up and look around.-----------Kurt Vonnegut -- in a TV adaptation of his "Between Time And Timbuktu" Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: clueless don Date: 01 Jul 09 - 11:38 AM Advice to potential miscreants: If you're planning to do murder/suicide, do suicide first. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Dorothy Parshall Date: 30 Jun 09 - 07:02 PM All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. – Thurber The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. -Anonymous The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. -Andy Rooney If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain Now and then it's good to pause in the pursuit of happiness and just be happy. -- Guillaume Apollinaire The day that hunger disappears the world will see a spiritual explosion such as humanity has never known. – John Berger in From A to X: A Story in Letters. Always remember, amateurs built Noah's Ark, but professionals were responsible for the Titanic. -George Anderson |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 30 Jun 09 - 05:34 PM "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." - e. e. cummings |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Aeola Date: 30 Jun 09 - 05:12 PM Bessie Braddock to Winston Chuchill ' Sir, you're drunk!' Winston's reply @ Madam, you're ugly, tomrrow I shall be sober!' Sike Milligan 's headstone, ' I told you I was ill!' |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: VirginiaTam Date: 30 Jun 09 - 04:22 PM Technical instructions from Atilla the Hun - "Pillage first, then burn!" Always liked this, but seldom live by it. "There is no wholly satisfactory substitute for brains, but silence does pretty well." All time fav from A. Einstein "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: The Sandman Date: 30 Jun 09 - 01:16 PM a concertina,is an collision between moving vehicles.anon |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Ringer Date: 30 Jun 09 - 11:11 AM Hilaire Belloc: "When you have lost your inns, you may drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the heart of England." |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: BobKnight Date: 30 Jun 09 - 11:10 AM A local quote: Once you have a reputation for rising early, you can stay in bed 'til denner time. (lunch time) "A man may smile and smile, yet be a knave." Shakespeare (Hamlet) "When it comes to food, I have two rules. Never eat salad, except in your own home, and never eat anything on a stick." I said that. "I think this is rather better" William MacGonagle, Dundee "poet" when acting the part of Hamlet, but then refused to die at the end. The audience then lifted him shoulder high and carried him from the theatre in triumph. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 30 Jun 09 - 09:47 AM "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies." -- Groucho Marx |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Jan 08 - 03:04 AM This one made me laugh...somewhat nervously:
-Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Ythanside Date: 19 Jan 08 - 01:32 AM 'Desperation is the REAL mother of invention.' I said that. Ythanside |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Rog Peek Date: 18 Jan 08 - 07:03 PM "If a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins, how in the hell can you quit while you're ahead" Anon Rog |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Bill D Date: 18 Jan 08 - 06:30 PM My corollary is: "It's too bad ignorance doesn't itch" |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Peace Date: 18 Jan 08 - 06:13 PM "Ignorance is a state of mind located between I don't know and I don't care." I said that. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Bill D Date: 18 Jan 08 - 06:01 PM "Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use." — Wendell Johnson |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Rog Peek Date: 18 Jan 08 - 05:37 PM "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land." Bishop Desmond Tutu. Rog |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Bill D Date: 18 Jan 08 - 03:11 PM REFRESH...just because I wanted a place to put this one. "The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos." - Stephen Jay Gould |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: GUEST,MGJohn Date: 04 Dec 06 - 05:39 AM "It might say Bovril on the back of a bus, but it don't mean it sells it" (My Father's expression when he was a grocer.) |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Linda Goodman Zebooker Date: 03 Dec 06 - 02:25 PM Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. it is not something discovered: it is something moulded. These prison walls that this age of trade has built up round us, we can break down. We can still run free, call to our comrades, and marvel to hear once more, in response to our call, the pathetic chant of the human voice. Antoine de Saint Exupery |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Paul from Hull Date: 03 Dec 06 - 10:38 AM Hmmm, that IS good, Flash! |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Flash Company Date: 03 Dec 06 - 10:30 AM Quoted by Simon Sharma the other night, I really, really hope it is true:- Nazi Officer, looking at a postcard of Guernica, to Picasso, 'Did you do this? Picasso. ' NO, you did!' FC |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: number 6 Date: 02 Dec 06 - 10:17 PM "Don't play what's there, play what's not there" ..... Miles Davis biLL |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: John O'L Date: 02 Dec 06 - 10:02 PM There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. - James Thurber |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: GUEST Date: 02 Dec 06 - 09:52 PM If people don't want to go to the ball game there's nothing you can do to stop them. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: John O'L Date: 04 Nov 06 - 07:20 PM "Everybody hates you when you're popular" - Tim Rogers & Tex Perkins, My Better Half |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: Eye Lander Date: 04 Nov 06 - 06:38 AM In a folk song - 'Fishing for whale' Huh!!! |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: GUEST,dax Date: 03 Nov 06 - 11:26 PM "Cast your bread upon the waters. "You are your brothers keeper." Jesus Christ "From each according to his ability; To each according to his need." Karl Marx |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: GUEST,dax Date: 03 Nov 06 - 11:22 PM "Nobody ever goes there because it's too crowded." Yogi Berra |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: GUEST Date: 03 Nov 06 - 08:52 AM I am not young enough to know everything. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: GUEST Date: 03 Nov 06 - 03:28 AM There,s nowt as queer as folk. - anon A camel is a horse designed by a committee. - anon Jim Carroll |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: John O'L Date: 03 Nov 06 - 12:57 AM "Life is a gamble at terrible odds - If it was a bet, you wouldn't take it." - Tom Stoppard |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: NH Dave Date: 14 Oct 06 - 12:36 AM "Be like a duck, calm and placid on the surface and paddling like hell underneath" Kris Kristofferson, in the film, Convoy. "They'll dig a hole, put you in it, and throw dirt in your face, and you won't mind because you'll be dead, dead, dead!" A weather forcaster friend of mine explaining to a general why he could not fly straight through a line of thunderstorms to get to his desired destination. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: GUEST,thurg Date: 14 Oct 06 - 12:07 AM "Those boys wanted to play the blues real bad - and they did!" - Sonny Boy Williamson II (or was it Howlin' Wolf?), re: Eric Clapton et al. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: GUEST,PLATO Date: 13 Oct 06 - 11:57 PM A man of education - knows how to to swim. |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: ositojuanito Date: 13 Oct 06 - 01:39 PM In the sixties there was Richard Farina who wrote a good song 'pack up your troubles' and he had a magical title for his book 'been down so long, it looks like up to me' You have to think about it |
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Subject: RE: Favourite Quotations From: ositojuanito Date: 13 Oct 06 - 01:38 PM best verse ever from a song: looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer I was taken by a photograph of you. Jackson Browne |
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