What's your favorite quotation?

[zoe22]

"Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle." - Bob Hope

"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something."
-- Plato


"If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life." --Tommy Lasorda

If you do it you’ll regret it, if you don’t do it you’ll regret it, either way your going to regret it, you might as well just do it

"If you learn from your mistakes, then why ain't I a genius ?!"

Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth. --George Burns

[Graham.J]

"Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

"Until you spread your wings you'll have no idea how far you can fly."

"What the mind can concieve and believe, it can achieve."

"The depth of a soul is not measured by what appears on the surface, but what lies in the heart."

"It is not the mountain we conquer
but ourselves." ~ Sir Edmond Hilary

"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." ~ Orison Swett Marden

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

[clapham993]

Lump in the throat emotion comes from Laurence Binyon's

"They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old/Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn/At the going down of the sun, and in the morning/We will remember them"

For theatrical 'damn, I wish I'd said that' it has to be Ronald Reagan, at the Brandenburg Gate

"Mr Gorbechev, throw open this gate! Mr Gorbechev, tear down this wall!"

Pertinant to these times of omnipotent Government, I rather like Juvenal's

"Quis custodiat ipsos custodes"

As a guide for life, however, nothing beats Rudyard Kipling's

"....If you can fill the unforgiving minute/With sixty seconds worth of distance run..."

[Fatboy]

"It is always better to regret having done something, than to lament not having done it" my dad

'That's the biggest mistake since Lord Nelson said: "Lady Hamilton is a virgin - cut off my arm poke out my eye if I'm wrong"' Edmund Blackadder

[bilko]

The emptiest vessel makes the loudest noise
"there you are then"- Good welsh response when sumone has told you something of no interest at all to you

[wedg1e]

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than it is to be responsible and wrong - Churchill

When all's said and done, there's a lot more said than done - Groucho Marx?

What's Teletext, then? Is that some kind of Ceefax for the blind? - My mother...

Ian

[Alex]

"It is better to incur a mild rebuke, than to perform an onerous task." - Henry Sugar.

[nonegreen]

Other people are quite dreadfull the only possible society is oneself :Wilde

I was tea total until prohibition :Graucho Marx

I would never join any club that would have me as a member : Graucho Marx

What the hell was that? :Mayor of Hiroshima

[stewy68]

Watch this for a wheelie... Captain of the Herald Of Free Enterprise.

[B16 RFF]

Fatboy said:

"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you" My mate Joe Lees. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" anon "I'm not getting married again - I'm just going to find a woman I don't like and buy her a house" Steven Segal

Also:
Just because you're not paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

[PomBstard]

In the dressing room just after Bath had won another Pilkington Cup, Gareth Chilcott is asked if there will be any celebrations that night,

"Well, we'll just be going out for a quiet pint....followed by fifteen noisy ones."

Class.

[getcarter]

"Your manuscript was both good and original. However, the bit that was good was not original, and the bit that was original was not good".

Voltaire wrote this on one of his student's essays.

[supercat]

Can't remember where it comes from but...

"No-one on their deathbed ever said 'I wish I'd spent more time in the office'"

I keep repeating this to myself.

>> Edited by supercat on Tuesday 9th March 08:02

[Plotloss]

Her face was her chapparone - Cant remember

Only dull people are good in the morning - Wilde

Very expensive to those that cant afford it, free to those who can - Uncle Monty

If the science is good enough, it becomes indistinguishable from magic - Arthur C Clarke.

[davidd]

off and piss up a rope cnutstick

rude kid...viz

[Podie]

“work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.”

[Plotloss]

Podie said:

“work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.”

Almost certaintly said by a destitute single disabled man...

>> Edited by Plotloss on Tuesday 9th March 08:20

[rude girl]

Maturity is only desirable in a cheese my dear (my hockey captain)

Better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt (Abraham Lincoln)

Be Brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be; no-one can tell the difference.(unknown)

[rude girl]

And another...

Since we're walking on thin ice, we might as well dance

[Podie]

Plotloss said:

Podie said: “work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.” Almost certaintly said by a destitute single disabled man... >> Edited by Plotloss on Tuesday 9th March 08:20

not disabled...