Good Quotes

[Tye Green]

"what the fk was that?"

mayor of Hiroshima

[Evoluzione]

RDMcG said:

"There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know".

A famous remark from Donald Rumsfeld when he was US Secretary of Defence.

It's very true. It's what you don't know you don't know that catches you out.

[crofty1984]

alisdairm said:

In the Kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is King

Mark and Lard

A variant I ended up using at work the other day was "In a world of st, the man with the shovel is king."

[Stan the Bat]

Doofus said:

rigga said:

Lily the Pink said:

rigga said:

"A bit more choke, and that would of started "

Hopefully that's just how you remember it, rather than how it was actually written !

Without searching for it in all the books I read whilst away, its as I recall.

Not a well-written book, then.

Floggin' a dead 'un there mate.

[Doofus]

Stan the Bat said:

Floggin' a dead 'un there mate.

I know. I was just trying to lend support.

[rigga]

Doofus said:

rigga said:

Lily the Pink said:

rigga said:

"A bit more choke, and that would of started "

Hopefully that's just how you remember it, rather than how it was actually written !

Without searching for it in all the books I read whilst away, its as I recall.

Not a well-written book, then.

I'm failing to see what's the big interest, in something I read, and thought to post here, as a quote, it is what it is .... or my recollection of it.

Is there something I'm not getting (pretty sure the answer to that is yes)

[Fat hippo]

I can explain it to you but I can’t understand it for you.
No idea who came up with this

[cobra kid]

rigga said:

I'm failing to see what's the big interest, in something I read, and thought to post here, as a quote, it is what it is .... or my recollection of it.

Is there something I'm not getting (pretty sure the answer to that is yes)

Would of
Would have

[rigga]

cobra kid said:

rigga said:

I'm failing to see what's the big interest, in something I read, and thought to post here, as a quote, it is what it is .... or my recollection of it.

Is there something I'm not getting (pretty sure the answer to that is yes)

Would of
Would have

Ah ok, fallen foul of the PH grammar police


Always a first time I guess.

Edited by rigga on Friday 30th July 08:56

[anonymous-user]

rigga said:

Ah ok, fallen foul of the PH grammar police


Always a first time I guess.

Edited by rigga on Friday 30th July 08:56

Or just English. You know, the bit in between the grammar.

[ant427]

Granma ?

[wildone63]

A US tv news reporter was interviewing a kid who had witnessed a prominent local citizen die from a self inflicted gunshot wound

Reporter: "Did Mr.xxx say why he committed suicide?"

Kid: "No he was dead"

[Starfighter]

Tye Green said:

"what the fk was that?"

mayor of Hiroshima

"FFS, not again!" - Tsutomu Yamaguchi

[Trophy Husband]

Panic slowly.

[Swift93]

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

Soren Kierkegaard

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Imagine being so poor, that the only thing you have in your life is plenty of money.

[TorqueDirty]

Evoluzione said:

RDMcG said:

"There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know".

A famous remark from Donald Rumsfeld when he was US Secretary of Defence.

It's very true. It's what you don't know you don't know that catches you out.

Probably derived for this ancient Persian Proverb, but also attributed to Confucius

He who knows not and knows not that he knows not, is a fool ... shun him.
He who knows not and knows that he knows not, is ignorant ... teach him.
He who knows and knows not that he knows, is asleep ... wake him.
He who knows and knows that he knows, is a wise man ... follow him

[The Mad Monk]

Starfighter said:

Tye Green said:

"what the fk was that?"

mayor of Hiroshima

"FFS, not again!" - Tsutomu Yamaguchi

Poor bloke. He was only 93 when he died.

[Roofless Toothless]

Confucius say:

“Woman who flies plane upside down have crack up.”

[diesel do]

Not read the whole thread so apologies if already mentioned, but:

“Your God gave you two ears and one mouth. Use them in that proportion and you’ll not go far wrong.”