Great Quotes

[mockney piers]

I read a fantastic quote the other day, and toyed with starting this thread, and for the life of me can't remember what the quote was.

But stumbled on this one this morning and thought, no time like the present.

"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue." - Albert Einstein

[barrymarshall]

"It is a good rule in life never to apologise. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them." PG Wodehouse

[lozzyloz]

I like this one by Churchill which has become a mantra of mine:

Success is not final.

Failure is not fatal.

It is the courage to continue that counts.

[Brendan]

?In 78 years I have seen amazing human progress but no change to human happiness.?

- Me dad to me, over a beer, at his last birthday party.

[SeanMacGabhann]

slightly overused now but I still like it

"It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit". John Wooden.

[ladida]

Another one from Wodehouse:

'Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant, it's best not to stir them'

[ladida]

'A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke'

Groucho Marx

[PeckhamRose]

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

[atila the gooner]

It is better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool than to open your mouth and confirm the fact.

[Keef]

My favourite is

Dorothy Parker on being challenged to use the word ?horticulture? in a sentence said, ?You can bring a horticulture but you can?t make her think?.

Some others I like

?Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don?t like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.?

Bill Shankly

?a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.?

George Bernard Shaw talking about dancing

?either the wallpaper goes or I do.?

Last words of Oscar Wilde

?I never forget a face, but in your case I?ll be glad to make an exception.?

A: Groucho Marx

[embellina]

'It doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you' Neil Young

I like to think of this as good advice for when you need the courage not to care what other people think

[atila the gooner]

Don't piss on my back and tell me it's raining

[atila the gooner]

There's nothing like a good night out, and this is nothing like a good night out.

[Annasfield]

"If Everton were playing at the bottom of the garden, I'd close the curtains"

[lozzyloz]

If my aunt had bollocks she'd be my uncle

[East Dulwich Angst]

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.

Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

[Ladygooner]

I used to be Snow White but I drifted - Mae West

[SimonM]

>>'A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke'

>>Groucho Marx<<

Stolen from Kipling I think? "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke" :))

[ladida]

'Golf, the best way to ruin a good walk'

Churchill, I think but not entirely sure

[DaveR]

how many roads must a man walk down before you call him a cab

[RosieH]

Brendan Wrote:

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> ?In 78 years I have seen amazing human progress

> but no change to human happiness.?

>

> - Me dad to me, over a beer, at his last birthday

> party.

Brendan, I think I may have just fallen in love with your dad.

"Less is only more when more is no good" - Frank Lloyd Wright

[Keef]

I love the old Churchill one where a lady said he was drunk, and he said something like "yes, but in the morning I shall be sober, you shall still be ugly" >:D

[lozzyloz]

That was my wife

[ladida]

Prince Philip to a Scottish driving instructor - 'How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them past the test?'

and in China to a couple of tourists - 'If you stay here long enough you'll end up getting all slitty eyed'

[georgia]

'Work is the curse of the drinking classes' (Oscar Wilde)

'A hard man is good to find' (Mae West)