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!"

 

[Kendall Downes]

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
In the middle of every difficulty lies the opportunity
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your actions.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

 

[Hypnotic Chimera]

“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.” Leonardo da Vinci.


“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.” Shakespeare, Hamlet.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Maya Angelou.