What's your favorite quotation?

What's your favorite quotation?

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beano500

20,854 posts

275 months

Friday 12th March 2004
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"I've just bought a TVR and found out (when I got it home) that I can't reach the pedals" (paraphrasing grossly)

This thread here, in case you're wondering

(I do hope that's a wind up!)

nonegreen

7,803 posts

270 months

Friday 12th March 2004
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big_treacle said:
Haven't read all this thread, so I dunno if this one has come up...
Derek & Clive...
"You c * nt"

That quote has me in stitches every time I hear it, from anyone.


"Jump, you er jump. Into this blanket what we are holding, but not really. Laugh, we nearly shat."

Nothing like Cooke pissed.

cortinaman

3,230 posts

253 months

Friday 12th March 2004
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i like cook and moores horseracing one with the horses names as 'big tits','arsehole','the poof','the prick' and 'vagina'.....but the 'you c***' skit is a classic.

"when the going gets tough,the tough hide under the table!" - iirc it was in blackadder 2.

"when the going gets tough,the tough have a fag,a drink and a ponder" - ralph filthy (filthy,rich and catflap)

"i could play stairway to heaven by the age of 7....it took jimmy page till he was 21 to write it...i think that says alot." - vim fuego (bad news)

and the classic clint eastwood..."did i fire 6 shots or did i fire 5??,well to tell you the truth in all this excitement ive forgotten but considering this is a .44 magnum,the most powerful handgun in the world,you should be asking yourself one question.....do i feel lucky?....WELL DO YA..PUNK?

gaston

21,189 posts

246 months

Saturday 13th March 2004
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"War does not determine who is right. War determines who is left."

Or, if you prefer;

"History is written by the winner".

Jnr

483 posts

251 months

Saturday 13th March 2004
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"Eagles may soar, but Weasels don't get sucked into jet engines!" Anon

james_j

3,996 posts

255 months

Saturday 13th March 2004
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A woman drove me to drink, for which I'm eternally grateful. W.C. Fields

__LEE__

7,520 posts

243 months

Saturday 13th March 2004
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Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes,
And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes
The tools of Thought, and shaping what he wills,
Bring forth a thousand joys, a thousand Ills
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Enviornment is but his looking-glass


- James Allen


or one from Ali

I'm so fast that when I switched the light off for bed, I was in bed before the room went dark

>> Edited by __LEE__ on Saturday 13th March 14:47

murcielago

952 posts

252 months

Saturday 13th March 2004
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"The atmosphere is so tense, you could cut it with a cricket bat!"

"That Williams is unique apart from the one behind it, which is identical!"



Murray Walker

So many Murray Quotes so little time

n_rod_2000

30 posts

244 months

Saturday 13th March 2004
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dont know who said it..i saw it in a picture on the rear window of a 1991 eagle talon TSi......it reads "gone v-8 hunting....be back in seconds"

n_rod_2000

30 posts

244 months

Saturday 13th March 2004
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dont know who said it..i saw it in a picture on the rear window of a 1991 eagle talon TSi......it reads "gone v-8 hunting....be back in seconds"

margo

533 posts

241 months

Saturday 13th March 2004
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"Point it, punch it and pray" - from Redline 7000 (iirc)

tubbystu

3,846 posts

260 months

Saturday 13th March 2004
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Cabby said:
Churchill - when confronted by some old bat who said "My god man, your drunk!"

To which he replied "Yes ma'm, and you are ugly! But I shall be sober in the morning!"

Not sure if there was a reply!

Paul.


Or - "Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your coffee" - reply - "Madam if you were my wife, I'd drink it !"

wedg1e

26,801 posts

265 months

Saturday 13th March 2004
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raftom said:
To the workaholics:

Arbeit Macht Frei (work will free you)

It was written in entry gate at Auschwitz.


Also spotted above the kitchen doors of a Little Chef on the A1, and appears on my company mobile phone when you switch it on.
My private mobile has "Talk ain't always cheap!"

Ian

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

255 months

Sunday 14th March 2004
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Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?

Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.

Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.

The Grand Old Duke of York
He had ten thousand men.
His case comes up next week.


I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

Spike Milligan

>> Edited by mybrainhurts on Sunday 14th March 04:53

K27

186 posts

278 months

Sunday 14th March 2004
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Reduce expectations to avoid dissapointment.

unknown from my fortune cookie

Jnr

483 posts

251 months

Sunday 14th March 2004
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Man is 90% water and still these prohibitionists are not satisfied......

Let me get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.....

bilko

1,693 posts

232 months

Saturday 10th April 2004
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Sorry!....Sorry everyone for resurecting this old thread but i have to add this Quotation that i have found many use's for......AHEM!

"I know i'm not allowed to say what i'm thinking here; but rest assured i am thinking it!"

Every available oppertunity and it covers a multitude of sins

Sorry

Ballistic Banana

14,698 posts

267 months

Saturday 10th April 2004
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Not really a quotation but people in bedfordshire(and maybe further) have a habit of saying when talking about a young male person

"he's a young old boy" now WTF does that mean????

madmike

2,372 posts

266 months

Saturday 10th April 2004
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Not really a quotation, but my favorite bumper sticker reads:

"JESUS SAVES - he passes to Moses, he shoots, he scores!!!!"

Mike

Flipper31

24 posts

250 months

Saturday 10th April 2004
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DanBoy said:
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was convincing the world he didn't exist.


Wasn't that in the 'Usual Suspects'?