Quotes . . .

Jennyontour
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edited November 2016 in Fun & Trivia #1

"We can only be ourselves as everyone else is taken" by Oscar Wilde is one of my favourite quotes.  Does anyone else have one they favour? 

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  • Kennine
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    edited November 2016 #2

    Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice : it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. 

    By William Jennings Bryan

     

  • SteveL
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    edited November 2016 #3

    Champagne one of the elegant extras in life : Charles Dickens

  • trellis
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    edited November 2016 #4

    Live long and prosper .....Spock.

  • SteveL
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    edited November 2016 #5

    Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once:  Michelle in 'allo allo, (sorry can't do the accent)

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited November 2016 #6

     

    Always borrow from a pessimist, he never expects anything back

  • Navigateur
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    edited November 2016 #7

    I told you so!

    Mother, my Mother, Your Mother, anyone's Mother.

  • jimd
    jimd Forum Participant Posts: 37
    edited November 2016 #8

    'Any man under 40 who drinks Scotch is a fool.  Any man over 40 who doesn't drink Scotch is a fool.'  ..........My Doctor  



  • volvoman9
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    edited November 2016 #9

    I,m not the best manager in the country but i,m in the top one.



    The late great Brian Clough.

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  • cyberyacht
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    edited November 2016 #10

    "Bring on the empty horses"  - Sam Goldwyn

  • Kennine
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    edited November 2016 #11

    The difference between intelligence and education is this :- Intelligence will make you a good living. 

    Charles F Kettering

  • volvoman9
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    edited November 2016 #12

    Nowadays people know the price of everything but the value of nothing.



    Oscar Wilde

  • moulesy
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    edited November 2016 #13

    I resign! I refuse to belong to any forum (oops, club!) that would have me as a member. Wink



    Groucho Marx

  • trellis
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    edited November 2016 #14

    Don't tell him Pike .....

  • Spriddler
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    edited November 2016 #15

    Experience is something you get just after you need it.

  • mickysf
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    edited November 2016 #16

    Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools but trouble always comes when fools consider themselves wise men and wise men act as fools!

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited November 2016 #17

    Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

  • SteveL
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    edited November 2016 #18

    Home is not where you live but where they understand you: Christian Morgenstern

  • cyberyacht
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    edited November 2016 #19

    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove any possibilty of doubt.

  • ChemicalJasper
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    edited November 2016 #20

    "We are nothing but an insignificant detour on the arrow of entropy" - unknown

  • ChemicalJasper
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    edited November 2016 #21

    "Science, because the answer never turned out to be magic....ever!" - Tyson

  • ChemicalJasper
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    edited November 2016 #22

    "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." - Tyson

  • ChemicalJasper
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    edited November 2016 #23

    We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.” - Cox

  • ChemicalJasper
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    edited November 2016 #24

    "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein



  • ChemicalJasper
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    edited November 2016 #25

    "We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further" - Dawkins

  • ChemicalJasper
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    edited November 2016 #26

    "Science is interesting and if you don't agree you can @*&# off!" - Alun Anderson

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited November 2016 #27

    If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. 

    Einstein

  • SteveL
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    edited November 2016 #28

    Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Charles R. Swindoll



  • cyberyacht
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    edited November 2016 #29

    One should never trust a woman who tells one her real ageA woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.'  Oscar
    Wilde

  • KASTARIS
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    edited November 2016 #30

    If I'd have known I was gonna live this long I would have taken better care of myself  Surprised -  Kastaris

  • KASTARIS
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    edited November 2016 #31

    Some cause happiness wherever they go;  others whenever they go   -   Oscar Wilde

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