Great Quotes

[Keef]

And it takes an Arsenal fan to carry it on. Settle down boys!

Whilst we're talking footy, and to get this back on track...

"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea."

Eric Cantona - A great mind.

[mockney piers]

"When Alexander of Macedonia was 33 years old he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds left to conquer. Bristow is only 27"

Syd Waddell

[Keef]

He's got fingers in more pies than a leper on a cookery course.

"This case is moving about as fast as a bunch of spastics in a magnet factory" (sorry)

Gene Hunt - Life on Mars.

[spadetownboy]

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[Jah Lush]

Confucius say:

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

[Brendan]

Most men learn from their mistakes but wise men learn from others. ? Don?t know who said that or if I just made it up but it sounds the same as old Confucius there.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Master Po to Grasshopper:

the mountain is beautiful with snow, but after it loses its snow, green grows from underneath. in every loss, there is gain. as in every gain, there is loss

[Brendan]

Is that an attempt to explain basic economics to Gordon Brown?

[spadetownboy]

one of the all time legendary commentators is gaa commentator micheal o muircheartaigh, hes well renowned back home for his in game quips, eg regarding the cork left half back sean og o hAilpin

"Sean Og O hAilpin, his fathers from Fermanagh, his mothers from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold" and on another cork man

"Anthony Lynch the Cork corner back would be the last man to let you down, his people are undertakers"

check out "an fear rua" for more classic quotes.

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> > > > "You f**king cheating bastard" Sir Smart

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> > > > Fergusmoan to a referee. What a classy gent

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[atila the gooner]

The ancient sages said "Do not despise the serpent for having no horns, for who is to say it will not become a dragon"

[atila the gooner]

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Turkish politician & reformer (1881 - 1938)

[SteveT]

The greatest quote for me this year:-

Hastings direct dum di dum di dum ten sixty six

Cheaper than all the rest.......

;-)

[atila the gooner]

Can we, who man the ship of state, deny it is somewhat out of control? - Ronald Regan

[Jah Lush]

And who's fault was that then?

[DaveR]

Other Reagan quotes:

"They say hard work never killed anyone but I figure, why take the chance?"

On being asked whether a aprticular crisis had been occupying a lot of his time-

"Yeah, I've really been burning the afternoon oil"

[Jah Lush]

"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic. " Keith Richards.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

[Otta]

"Softer music, music like jazz, is the music of fear"

Nigel - Spinal Tap 2009

[Dopamine1979]

'We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives' - Chuck Palahniuk

[lameduck]

i was feeling a bit down

an elderly neighbour tried to convince me to take one of her valium

"they are not habit forming i have been on them for 30 years"

bless her

['bout now]

If you keep your head whilst all around are losing theirs, you've probably missed the point.

[BrandNewGuy]

"... the unspoken conspiracy that prevails in modern Western democracies between voters and the governments they elect: we, the voters, will get to blame you for problems that are actually ours, and in return we will allow you, the government, to pretend that you are steering the country, like a helmsman steering a ship, when you can't..." (James Meek)

[HonaloochieB]

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years" - Mark Twain

Picked this up(well obviously, more like reminded of it) on a toilet wall in my place of work.

[HonaloochieB]

"They laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. They're not laughing now". - Bob Monkhouse.

A one-liner of course but I think it deserves inclusion as a great quote and if it doesn't sum up the dilemma/agony of the stand up life then I'm that Stewart Leigh.