Five favourite quotes.

[Thingybob]

Growing old disgracefully

 

[selectortone]

If it's all in, why wrestle? - Mae West.

 

[Sachakins]

The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson

You laugh because I'm different..
I laugh cause I just farted!

Anonymous

 

[Co1]

A cynic is just an optimist with experience.

 

[John Brown]

A cynic is just an optimist with experience.

Or a young swan.

 

[Torx]

"Treat me good I'll treat you better, treat me bad I'll treat you worse."

Ralph "Sonny" Barger (a fellow you'd best treat well).

 

[Suffolkboy]

"You can only piss with the **** you've got"

 

[gcusick]

You can’t get the wood (Goon Show, again)
If you were the only girl in the world, you’d still have to fill in a form (my late boss)
First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers (Shakespeare, King Henry VI, part 2)

 

[Stan]

Save face. Keep lower half shut.

 

[Stan]

Reputedly, a conversation took place between Jean Harlow and Margot Fonteyn where Jean repeatedly called her " my dear Margott " .

After a while, Margot calmly replied "my dear Jean, the 't' in 'Margot' is silent, as in 'Harlow' ".

 

[cerro]

Don Whillans international expedition Himalayas. Germans goading whillans Peter Habeler says Ha Donald I see we beat you at your favourite sport ( Football) Whillans replied broad Lancashire accent

I lad we bet you twice at yours

 

[niall Y]

My old maths teacher would often quote a snippet from Grey's Elegy to the class " Full many a flower was born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air"
Looking back, I now realise that it comforted him in his struggles.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Aussie paceman Glenn McGrath was bowling to Zimbabwe number 11 Eddo Brandes – who was just missing each ball. McGrath, frustrated, went to him and inquired: “Why are you so fat?”Quick as a flash, Brandes replied, “Because every time I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit.”

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Rodney Marsh to Ian Botham in an Ashes match: “So how’s your wife and my kids?” Ian Botham’s reply – “The wife’s fine. The kids are ******** !”

 

[AutoDoc Williams]

Applies to most woodworkers: Perfection is the enemy of good enough. Voltaire

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Well, my friends are gone
and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play ...

Leonard Cohen.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

one of Freddie Mercury's teachers - "sit down, Bulsara, you can't sing!"