Favourite quotes

[Emerson Crane]

I have many favourite quotes, this is just one them.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it - Bob Hope

Ain't that the truth!!!!!

[Sue]

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."

Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)

16th president of US (1809 - 1865)

?You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.?

George W. Bush quotes (American 43rd US President since 2001. b.1946)

[Dickensman]

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

A little help is worth a lot of sympathy.

"If you have sex when you are under age it can send you blind",

'then let's only do it till we need glasses'!

[Emerson Crane]

I like long walks especially when they are taken by people who annoy me - Noel Coward

[Tarot]

Damaged people are dangerous;they know they can survive: David Hare.

[dullified]

?We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly?

Sam Keen American Philiopsher

And anything from the mouth of Homer Simpson...

"When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle - they're on TV!"

"Ah, beer. The cause of and the solution to all of life's problems."

"I don't hate your mother, I just won't be sad when she dies."

[Ridgley]

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Karl Marx

[DaveR]

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

Ronald Reagan

[Kingy]

Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees - Emiliano Zapata

[legalbeagle]

Comedy = tragedy + time.

[Andicam]

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." George Best

[camberwell70]

'He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy' Brian's Mum

[camberwell70]

Or - on a more serious note - this gem: 'When we are young we want to be old. When we are old we want to be young. Why not stay young! - Some kid I used to know from round the flats.

[bob]

Dont come running to me if you break you leg.

My Mum

Bob S

[Jah Lush]

"I'd hate to advocate drugs, alcohol or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."

Hunter S Thompson.

[KidKruger]

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind - Mahatma Gandhi

[????]

"It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees." - Mario Puzo

[nashoi]

"Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does buy the kind of misery I prefer." - Woody Allen

[Kingy]

he could pass the ball, but he couldn't pass a betting shop (Rodney Marsh on Stan Bowles)

[Kingy]

Sid Vicious on being asked why the Sex Pistols appeared very nihiistic, where the Clash were more concerned witht he man in the street

Sid - "I've met the man in the street and he's a c*nt"

[Dickensman]

If things don't alter, they'll stay as they are.

Coined by an unknown 'pocket philosopher'.

[Smiler]

Today is gone, today was fun, tomorrow is another one

Dr Seuss

[waynetta]

'They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian.

They're not laughing now.'

Bob Monkhouse

[Wilhelm]

An absolute beaut from Danny Baker a few years ago. He was describing an award ceremony where Patti Smith turned up and berated the press photog's for snapping her instead of covering whatever warzone was in the news at the time. This didn't wash with our venerable Candyman...

'Shut up! You've only had one hit... It was like being harangued by Kiki Dee'

[legalbeagle]

"You can't put an old head on young shoulders" (my great aunt Gertrude)