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cuddlepop
18-Jan-08, 16:55
Have you got a favourite?
I personally like this one just now by Sam Keen,author and philosopher.1931

"we come to love not by finding a perfect person,but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly" :D

ciderally
18-Jan-08, 18:13
Cree chief...
When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters have been polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then you will discover you cannot eat money.

unicorn
18-Jan-08, 18:44
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace

Cattach
18-Jan-08, 18:56
Have you got a favourite?
I personally like this one just now by Sam Keen,author and philosopher.1931

"we come to love not by finding a perfect person,but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly" :D

Enjoy yourself - you're a long time dead. (My late father).

lazytown
18-Jan-08, 19:06
I don't have a particular favourite quote, but there are some really good ones out there.


Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
Billy Connolly

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.

When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.
Sean Connery

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde

Snarfer
18-Jan-08, 19:18
"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind"
M.K. Gandhi

mccaugm
18-Jan-08, 19:27
I don't have a particular favourite quote, but there are some really good ones out there.


Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
Billy Connolly

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.

When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.
Sean Connery

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde

*Blushes* I actually laughed out loud whenI read these.

My favourite is one by Eleanor Roosevelt.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Gleber2
18-Jan-08, 19:30
Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead.

James Thurber.

Thumper
18-Jan-08, 19:42
"I knew I shouldn't of had that last drink"....Thumper,Sunday mornings [lol] x

cuddlepop
18-Jan-08, 19:43
These are good,keep them coming.:D

lazytown
18-Jan-08, 20:37
Here is some more

What is more immoral than war?
Marquis de Sade

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.
Adam Sandler

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

People everywhere love Windows.
Bill Gates


Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
Jim Carrey

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
Billy Connolly

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
Stephen King


The Following is a selection Of Homer J Simpson Quotes:

Here's to alcohol, the cause of—and solution to—all life's problems.

Operator! Give me the number for 911!

It's true, I'm a Rageaholic.....I just can't live without Rageahol!

I like my beer cold, my TV loud and my homosexuals flaming.

A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. 6 feet tall, 300 pounds ... it makes ice.

Lisa, you're a Buddhist, so you believe in reincarnation. Eventually, Snowball will be reborn as a higher lifeform... like a snowman.

I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?

Marge, I'm going to miss you so much. And it's not just the sex. It's also the food preparation.

Marge: I think you should do it, Homer, you might learn something new!
Homer: Oh, Marge, whenever I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out. Remember that time I went to those duff brewery classes and I forgot how to drive?

Julia
18-Jan-08, 20:52
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it.
Vincent Van Gogh

Highland Laddie
18-Jan-08, 21:04
Better to be ten minutes late in this world
than one second early in the next.

catnip
18-Jan-08, 21:06
Do not under estimate the power of the force
D. Vader

Snarfer
18-Jan-08, 22:03
"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs"

'We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.'

Anon.

"You can lead a horse to water, but, a pencil must be lead"
Stan Laurel

"Times fun when you're having flies"
Kermit the Frog

"I like to tell people I have the heart of a small boy. Then I say it's in a jar on my desk."
Stephen King

Yoda the flump
18-Jan-08, 22:16
A few quotes from the late great Winston Spencer Churchill:

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Bessie Braddock: 'Sir, you are drunk.'
Churchill: 'Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.'

Nancy Astor: 'Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.'
Churchill: 'If I were your husband I would take it.'

lady penelope
19-Jan-08, 17:15
If you judge people you have no time to love to love them- Mother Theresa

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

Treat others as you wish to be treated.

Better to have loved and lost thanto never have loved at all.

These are some of my favourites and what I try to live.

brandy
19-Jan-08, 20:26
for foolsrush in where angels fear to tread

Dadie
19-Jan-08, 20:35
a hard man is good to find

mae west

cuddlepop
19-Jan-08, 23:19
Here's another thought provoking one.:D

Your mind will answere most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
William Burroughs

ciderally
19-Jan-08, 23:48
It does not require many words to speak the truth....Chief Joseph

Thumper
19-Jan-08, 23:56
I forgot the best one....read my signature ;) x

unicorn
20-Jan-08, 00:03
I do love that one thumper :D

Thumper
20-Jan-08, 00:04
I do love that one thumper :D

Aww bless...thank you Hun...I do try..sometimes ;) x

unicorn
20-Jan-08, 00:06
I also like what goes around comes around :lol:

Margaret M.
20-Jan-08, 00:11
If you can't say anything nice....don't say anything at all

I prefer: If you have nothing nice to say, then come sit by me. :)

Thumper
20-Jan-08, 00:19
I prefer: If you have nothing nice to say, then come sit by me. :)

Ahh!Miss Clarice....come sit by me then ;) x