Five favourite quotes.

[BC'er]

Only five? There's a book about that; though I don't recommend editions after about 1960.

 

[Amplidyne]

I like the quote from the front of Nevil Shute's novel "Trustee from the Toolroom"

'An engineer is a man who can do for five bob what any bloody fool can do for a quid'

 

[MikeJhn]

Best book on the subject is "Honourable Insults"

 

[Sachakins]

Walk gently,
Speak less,
Listen more,
Be courteous,
Carry a Magnum 44.

 

[skeetstar]

Isn't a magnum cartridge a .44? .45 is ACP.

 

[paulrbarnard]

Isn't a magnum cartridge a .44? .45 is ACP.

I like the Almond Magnums but would want a whole one not .44 of it.

 

[Inspector]

Isn't a magnum cartridge a .44? .45 is ACP.

The 44 Magnum most common but there is a 45 Magnum too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.45_Winchester_Magnum

Pete

 

[skeetstar]

The 44 Magnum most common but there is a 45 Magnum too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.45_Winchester_Magnum

Pete

.. in my case then, a little knowledge proved to be just, a little knowledge. I am now betterceducated.

 

[Nelly111s]

“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest” - also attributed to Churchill.

 

[Nelly111s]

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer



No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.



Before you act, listen.
Before you react, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you criticise, wait.
Before you quit, try.

Ernest Hemingway





You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

Rumi

 

[Phil Pascoe]

No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.

Reminds me of a pro turner who always said something wasn't a flaw, it was a design opportunity.

 

[RobinBHM]

"grief is the price you pay for love"

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Don't I know it.

 

[JSW]

"Time and patience you can f*ck a flea"

D. Illingworth

 

[kinverkid]

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? …He’s a mile away, and you’ve got his shoes.

Unknown

 

[John Brown]

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? …He’s a mile away, and you’ve got his shoes.

Unknown

I first heard that from Woody Allen, don't know if he was the originator, but it sounds like him.

 

[dennisk]

Science flys you to the moon
Religion flys you into buildings
Unknown

Americans usually do the right thing , but only after they have exhausted all other possibilities.
W. Churchill

The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe , for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood , he was one of them.
Old Turkish proverb

Talent hits a target no on else can hit
Genius hits a target no one else can see
Unknown

When I was younger , I could remember things whether they happened or not , but my faculties are decaying now and soon it shall be so I cannot remember anything but the things that never happened . Is is sad to go to pieces like this , but we all have to do it .
Mark Twain

Laugh all you want but when the zombies come we all know whose house you will be running to.
Response to people who laugh at me for having guns .