Your Favourite Quotes and Sayings

[ColtDan]

 

[zombywoof]

"And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light,
but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.

spike milligan

 

[meankitty]

Not everyone with a mustache is a pedophile, but every pedophile has a mustache

 

[Shambles]

"I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.' - Albert Einstein.

It could possibly be argued that day is just around the corner if not already upon us. Are we the last non-idiot generation or already semidiots ourselves? Or is Einstein just being a bit curmudgeonly?

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

Probably my most meorable quote is

If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed

The words of the now dead Terrance McKenna

Paraphrasing William Blake actually.

“Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not to be believ’d”

William Blake, Proverbs of Hell

Harsh but fair.

 

[THECATINTHEHAT]

"It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,' says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good time pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, are always passing away. "

-Boethius

 

[zombywoof]

different strokes for different folks

 

[Shambles]

The traditional sign outside a brother I presume.

 

[maxalfie]

"If you fall off that wall & break your legs then don't come running to me", courtesy of my mother.

 

[Shambles]

Ha! That was one of my fave sayings from one of my friend's mothers - don't think my own ever had that one as part of her Mum's Phrases repertoire.

 

[THECATINTHEHAT]

"If you fall off that wall & break your legs then don't come running to me", courtesy of my mother.

If only you had the wit as a small child for the snappy reply that demands!

 

[ColtDan]

Champagne For My Real Friends, Real Pain For My Sham Friends

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Wicked

"If you fall off that wall & break your legs then don't come running to me", courtesy of my mother.

Old boss wrote a letter to us saying something similar once cos the place was a bit untidy "if you break your ankles dont come running to me!!!!!"


errr

 

[Shambles]

Surely unless there's somebody else in the bath at the time it really doesn't matter. Peeing in the bath when somebody else is in it but you're not is certainly ungentlemanly (unless said person happens to be on fire perhaps). Can you be gentlemanly towards yourself?

 

[Shambles]

What is the point of bread in the vicinity of soup of not for dunking? Gentleman don't like dry bread any more than anybody else. Anybody not dunking bread into soup whilst bread and soup are present concurrently would simply look like a moron not a gentleman. Can't help wondering about Grauniad readers sometimes...

I must admit there are one or two of those rules of supposed gentlemanly etiquette I am a bit of a stickler for. I still always walk on the kerbside of the pavement if accompanying a ladyfriend despite it being quite some considerable time since folk chucked chamber pots out windows. Splashing from cars is not the same as splashing from Hansom cabs and the like - if a car goes for a puddle you're both getting drenched.

 

[Shambles]

I wouldn't do the chair thing cos it always looks really awkward whenever I've seen people try - how do you know how well tucked under a table a woman wants to be? Just doesn't work. Capes on puddles is moronic - capes are not hydrophobic so she gets wet shoes anyway. Opening doors I do for anybody who happens to be ahead or behind me - that's just manners. I suspect any 'gentlemanly' trait worth keeping is just basic manners really. The slightly odd bits like the kerb thing don't really mean anything any more even if they once did have genuine use and would've been good manners. Most women I've known who've enquired as to why I'm always so insistent of being on the kerbside find it kinda sweet though so it does have its uses

 

[THECATINTHEHAT]

What is the point of bread in the vicinity of soup of not for dunking? Gentleman don't like dry bread any more than anybody else. Anybody not dunking bread into soup whilst bread and soup are present concurrently would simply look like a moron not a gentleman. Can't help wondering about Grauniad readers sometimes...

Lol

I don't think there's much wondering to be done personally, if it's not hand-woven fairtrade peace bio-yoghurt then it's just not on.

 

[Chatative]

Said by me, well, right now:

There is only one thing better than head-banging to Metal & that is playing it...

^^ I've been getting back into both guitar & as it happens Metallica recently... I think I essentially paraphrased Lars Ulrich there as he said:

Playing those songs was like head-banging taken one step further

Right fucking on! Even just playing the intro to Nothing Else Matters, so-so, is amazing. The day I can play Master of Puppets will be the epiphany of that...

 

[MrCookiE]

"If I wanted to listen to an asshole I would of farted!"

 

[HouseFever]

Nothing lasts but nothing is lost.

 

[MrCookiE]

How much!