Good Quotes

[STO]

"You have been criticising yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
Louise L Hay

[BritishBlitz87]

"The truth is irrelevant, the people believe what they want to believe" - Random politician bloke from an obscure English dub of the film "Castle of Cagliostro"

Edited by BritishBlitz87 on Monday 26th October 20:22

[slopes]

David_M said:

In relation to "setting them on fire" as far as I am aware this is just wrong. Necklacing became a (hideous) punishment in SA but long after NM was in jail.

Been around long before the ANC started using it, i believe it was used in the 60's against the Tamil people

[NMNeil]

"When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat."

George Carlin

[basherX]

One from Mark Twain that I've always liked:

"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"

[davhill]

Whenever Hollywood wit Dorothy Parker's apartment doorbell rang, she'd mutter...

" 'What fresh hell can this be?'"

[Doofus]

STO said:

"You have been criticising yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
Louise L Hay

I think I'm fking marvellous, and that hasn't been going too well either...

[Spare tyre]

pigeyman said:

Spare tyre said:

6 fence panels + concrete posts installed for £500

[Frank7]

America will never be destroyed from the outside,
Abraham Lincoln

[Lily the Pink]

The definition of serendipity : "Looking for a needle in a haystack and finding the farmer's daughter". Source unknown ... unless the PH massive knows otherwise.

[Gameface]

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones.

François de La Rochefoucauld.

[anonymous-user]

Lily the Pink said:

The definition of serendipity : "Looking for a needle in a haystack and finding the farmer's daughter". Source unknown ... unless the PH massive knows otherwise.

Julius Comroe Jr, American heart specialist.

[wastedyouth86]

'No matter how hot a girl is, some guy somewhere is tired of her bullst'

[conkerman]

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

[Doofus]

conkerman said:

Origin Unknown said:

George Santayana said:

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

[pigeyman]

"If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're probably right." - My Grandad

"Try not to be a " - Jim Jefferies


Both have proven rather memorable and make a good points.

[Doofus]

pigeyman said:

"If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're probably right." - My Grandad

It believe this one is regularly disproved by the quotes "Watch this.." or "Hold my pint."

[pigeyman]

Doofus said:

It believe this one is regularly disproved by the quotes "Watch this.." or "Hold my pint."

That's probably true on some occasions but I can't imagine Neil Armstrong ever having said "watch this" as he stepped onto the moon.

[Doofus]

pigeyman said:

Doofus said:

It believe this one is regularly disproved by the quotes "Watch this.." or "Hold my pint."

That's probably true on some occasions but I can't imagine Neil Armstrong ever having said "watch this" as he stepped onto the moon.

But he also, famously, didn't say "If you think you can, you can,"

[kowalski655]

Frank7 said:

America will never be destroyed from the outside,
Abraham Lincoln

When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross
No one seems to be sure who said it originally
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sinclair-lewis-o...