Good Quotes

[Lily the Pink]

"He's like a floater in the toilet bowl of life."

The specific instance referred to a certain Mr Packham, but it can doubtless be applied to many others.

[Stan the Bat]

alisdairm said:

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

Mark and Lard

This phrase existed well before Mark and Lard.

[Doofus]

Pixelpeep Z4 said:

Sometimes in life, mans gotta spread his wings, to do his tings. init - Phoneshop

If man say 'im a ting, 'im a ting, yer get me?

[Dr Jekyll]

"Unexpected things are thought of as being interruptions of real life. The truth is, interruptions and unexpected things are real life."

Nick Sanders - Round the world motorcyclist.

[98elise]

alisdairm said:

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

Mark and Lard

In the kingdom of the blonde, the monied man is king

[Steamer]

Doofus said:

Pixelpeep Z4 said:

Sometimes in life, mans gotta spread his wings, to do his tings. init - Phoneshop

If man say 'im a ting, 'im a ting, yer get me?

'A owl?'

[Doofus]

Steamer said:

Doofus said:

Pixelpeep Z4 said:

Sometimes in life, mans gotta spread his wings, to do his tings. init - Phoneshop

If man say 'im a ting, 'im a ting, yer get me?

'A owl?'

A owl. Starin' at me.

Edited by Doofus on Sunday 11th July 22:35

[DodgyGeezer]

'We like to think there is something special, even alien, about evil. We like to think that tyrants are different from the rest of us. That they are somehow inhuman. They are not. They are merely unchained, unfettered; free to do as they please.'

[Nimby]

"Everything is a smoke generator if you use it wrong enough" - AvE, yesterday.

[DodgyGeezer]

Nimby said:

"Everything is a smoke generator if you use it wrong enough" - AvE, yesterday.

[thebraketester]

Nimby said:

"Everything is a smoke generator if you use it wrong enough" - AvE, yesterday.

His channel is fantastic.

[rigga]

Read in a book on holiday

Upon hearing someone ripping a fart out

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

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Work is what they con you into doing so you can afford the things they con you into wanting.

[Lily the Pink]

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 !

[Blue62]

Lily the Pink said:

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

It’s a funny line regardless, and one to remember!

‘When I was fourteen I thought my father was the most ignorant man I had ever met, when I reached twenty one I couldn’t believe how much the old bugger had learned in seven years!’ Mark Twain.

[stepaway]

When you set out for Ithaca/ Hope your road is a long one

CP Cavafy - Greek Poet

[rigga]

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.

[Doofus]

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.

[Evoluzione]

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

[RDMcG]

"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.