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Rickyy

6,618 posts

218 months

Monday 3rd August 2015
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound - Originally Plato, I believe, then used by Shakespeare in King Lear, apparently.

Edited by Rickyy on Monday 3rd August 21:26

Japveesix

4,476 posts

167 months

Monday 3rd August 2015
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"As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll. "

Mick Shrimpton

cheddar

4,637 posts

173 months

Monday 3rd August 2015
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'Until one is committed there is hesitancy, ineffectiveness. Boldness has power genius and magic, whatever you can do or dream you can begin it, begin it now'

Goethe

Tango13

8,395 posts

175 months

Monday 3rd August 2015
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If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

Leo Szilard

Grumbly

294 posts

147 months

Monday 3rd August 2015
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Marvib said:
The use of multiple exclamation marks is the sure sign of a deranged mind!!!!!

No more discworld frown
Don't think of it as dying, think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.

Too early.....

breadvan

1,985 posts

167 months

Monday 3rd August 2015
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"Never stop fighting 'til the fight is done"

Kevin Kostner, The Untouchables.

Higgs boson

1,091 posts

152 months

Monday 3rd August 2015
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Kiltie said:
"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made."

Edited by Kiltie on Sunday 2nd August 22:45
Groucho?

5potTurbo

12,481 posts

167 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Johnny Vaughan said:
Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.
And the most British thing of all?
Suspicion of anything foreign!

crossle

1,520 posts

250 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."

Groucho Marx

TedMaul

2,092 posts

212 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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vx220 said:
"Never ever, anything ever"
"Never ever, bloody anything, ever" I think you'll find. RIP Rik

TedMaul

2,092 posts

212 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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"All things are subject to interpretation, which ever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth" Nietzsche

And to think he wrote this decades before the introduction of internet moderators.

Einion Yrth

19,575 posts

243 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

Richard P. Feynman


drivin_me_nuts

17,949 posts

210 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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You can't unsay words. So don't speak with malice today what will cause you remorse tomorrow.

I read these words somewhere years ago. They stuck and I try and live by them.

Kiltie

Original Poster:

7,504 posts

245 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Davey S2 said:
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Plato
That one is a belter for sure.

It made an impression on me when I first read it a year or so ago.

I do try to make allowances for people who's behaviour isn't an exact fit with my expectations; I have no idea what kind of st they're going through in their life.

Grumbly

294 posts

147 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Douglas Adams

Apt, very apt.


robinessex

11,046 posts

180 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Off the cuff, office sayings ;-

Office witticisms !!!

1. Another bow to add to his string
2. Go through it with a fine barge pole.
3. You can’t play a new tune on an old dog.
4. Anthony Quale played the actor about a German who turned Dutch
5. Hitler was charged with war criminals
6. They lived within a radius of each other
7. He was a conscious objector
8. You can’t call a kettle black
9. Pillar to post – mouth to mouth
10. Someone has to form a president
11. You can make an error in your arithmetic
12. It was a congivial meeting
13. You can’t beat the game
14. Money is cheap in Spain
15. There is something about him that makes us see loggerheads together
16. To write a report, I would need a diary
17. I’ll have his arse for garters
18. You have to delight the orange
19. He’s a little boy now, not a big boy
20. It’s a million to one shot- and they don’t come up very often
21. He’s a green as st
22. He can never say he’s wrong
23. He really put name through the hilt
24. He stirs the big spoon up
25. He went off with his legs between his knees
26. Keep you fingers open
27. He studies like a blue arse fly
28. He doesn’t know whether his arse is coming or running
29. Put the melting pot into the fire
30. Looking like a blue arse fly
31. His snottieness gets up my nose
32. If he does that again, I’ll lick his arse
33. He’s like a hot cat on a tin roof
34. He’s so tight that he rattles
35. Keep your ears out
36. The regulars got a partition up to get real beer back at my local
37. Two of a kind don’t make a goodun.
38. I had an operation on my postulate gland
39. There’s a joker in the wood pile
40. Any Tom, Digger or Bob
41. Tired to a frazzle
42. What’s his name, I can never remember faces
43. She may get germatitus from handling totic chemicals
44. I saw a film on energy conversation
45. You are now illegible for jury service
46. She’s got it in her bonnet to be a nurse
47. John has discollated his collar bone
48. That’s another bit to add to our bow
49. In the winter you can catch a packet if you don’t wrap up well
50. Those firms are part of a large glomorux
51. It’s all part and partial
52. They’ve been caught with their legs down
53. They all made a conservative effort
54. He must have done it yesterday to remember himself
55. He went through it like a piece of cake
56. His sofa driver is downstairs
57. It’s hells bells cold
58. He was jumping his mouth off
59. If there are any big jobs to do, they know who to run from
60. He works for the Borough Ural council
61. I’ll be alright, I can hold my sleep
62. I’m so busy, I don’t know whose arse to run to
63. I’ll kick his legs under him
64. It’s a ball a minute here
65. He’s a right two and half that bloke
66. Willy nilly, catchee monkey
67. He’s a bit complexed by you
68. You’ve got the gist of the gab
69. When did you arse last drop a brick
70. Let’s be pacific about it
71. Who rattled you chain
72. I need eyes up the back of my head
73. I saw the phone ringing
74. He’s got a swinging and dancing music centre
75. Lying out of you ear hole
76. I’ve got have a dozen people up my backside
77. Stick with me son, I’ll teach you the fking social graces
78. I represent that remark
79. I resemble that remark
80. Socialising with the higher anarchy
81. I’m in full charge of my facilities
82. That wiped the smile of his other foot
83. We have a few strings up our sleeve
84. He’s trying to bail out the Titanic with a bucket
85. He’s had his head chewed off, now he’s gone to get his arse kicked
86. I’m not the driver of this wagon, just the fking horse
87. There’s madness in my method
88. His hand is writing one thing, while his mind is thinking another
89. All meeting are a complete waste of time, 9 times out of 10
90. Due to the expansion of different weathers
91. I’m in all week, except Friday
92. I know it doesn’t fit, but it’s the only one I could find
93. Once you know the answer, the question is obvious
94. The wrong one is better the nothing at all
95. Garden centres are a growth industry
96. It’s a wk holiday

Squiggs

1,520 posts

154 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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“It is unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay to little.
When you pay too much you lose a little money - that’s all.
When you pay too little you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do.
The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot. It can’t be done.
If you deal with the lowest bidder it’s as well to add something on for the risk you run, and if you do that then you have enough to pay for something better.”

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

227bhp

10,203 posts

127 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Animal

5,246 posts

267 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. Socrates.

Nom de ploom

4,890 posts

173 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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"in the field of battle, never has so much been owed by so many to so few"

"we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight with growing confidence and strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall Never surrender"

both Churchill and still so resonant today.

"I don't care about you, but you work for me and I absolutely care about me..." Harvey "Suits".