Nice quotes.

[br d]

If already done to death, punch me squarely in the face.

Tom Waits on the days when alcoholism was treated as a mental illness:
"I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy."

Frank Zappa when asked about music journalism:
"It's people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."

And a more contemporary one. After Suggs had presented a program about the struggles of the mentally ill, the Times reviewer said:
"It's madness gone politically correct!"

[Shaolin]

One I came across recently which I liked:

Kurt Vonnegut
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

[Ross1988]

George Best

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

[darren9]

"That Grimsby team was pound for pound, and class for class, the best football team I have seen in England since the war. In the league they were in they played football nobody else could play. Everything was measured, planned and perfected and you could not wish to see more entertaining football."


Bill Shankly AFTER retirement.

[Lord Flathead]

"You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"

[Kermit power]

darren9 said:

"That Grimsby team was pound for pound, and class for class, the best football team I have seen in England since the war. In the league they were in they played football nobody else could play. Everything was measured, planned and perfected and you could not wish to see more entertaining football."


Bill Shankly AFTER retirement.

I don't get the point of this?

[Rouleur]

“Movement is tranquility”

Stirling Moss

[Nolar Dog]

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom"


Anais Nin


Something very close to my heart and as such will be integrated into my next tattoo in some form or other.

[FunkyNige]

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. - Rutherford

I don't give a **** about Politics, Golf, Game Shows, World Debt, Speed Limits, Soap Operas, Traffic Jams, Cricket, Gardening, Religion, Girlie Bands, Pension Plans, Stocks & Shares, Graham Norton, G.M. Food, After shave Lotion, Tennis, Diets, The Oscars, Boy Bands, Old Age, Housework, French Cheese, Parking Meters, Fatism, The Weather, Stress Councelling, Decorating, Volvo Drivers, Cars, Town Councils, Animal Rights, I just wanna ride my bike! - Ogri

[TheEnd]

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana - Karl Marx, or maybe his brother

[RobbieL]

Sometimes the most appropriate response to reality, is to go insane.

[rayny]

"I don't have an attitude problem, it is you who have a perception problem"

Dagnabitall - I cannot remember the lady who said it,

[DIW35]

"I wouldn't say I was the best football manager, but I am in the top 1!"

Brian Clough

[Blib]

Woman to Churchill: "You sir are drunk".

Churchill to woman: "And you madam are ugly. However, tomorrow I shall be sober".

[Rouleur]

"When all else fails, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it."

W C Fields

[oldbanger]

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

[Mobile Chicane]

I had a great time, but this wasn’t it.

Groucho Marx

[oldbanger]

A few other goodies (IMHO) .. all from Robert A. Heinlein

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

[central]

'They compare Steve McManaman to Steve Heighway and he's nothing like him, but I can see why - it's because he's a bit different.' - Kevin Keegan.

[Rouleur]

Confucius says:

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated"

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others"