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majorshrapnel
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Date Posted:2024-10-09 08:26:30Copy HTML Growing old is something you do if you're lucky It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are ingenious Before I speak I have something important to say Groucho Marx You know that look that women get when they want sex? Me neither Steve Martin When choosing between two evils I always pick the one I haven't tried before Mae West There are a number of mechanical devices which increase the sexual arousal of women, a Ferrari is one of them P J O'Rourke A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it Bob Hope All I ask is a chance to prove that money won't make me happy Spike Milligan A secret is something that is only repeated to one person at a time Robert McCrum |
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tommytalldog
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-02-01 02:30:31Copy HTML "The rich get their ice in the summer; the poor get theirs in the winter." Bat Masterson former lawman who died at his desk in NYC in 1921. He was a sportswriter for a NY newspaper at the time, & those words were on the typewriter paper he was working on. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-02-04 04:13:37Copy HTML In the 18th century in England a tax on windows was enacted so people bricked them up to avoid it, which is where we get the saying, daylight robbery |
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MarkUK
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-02-04 06:45:56Copy HTML You can still find houses today with windows bricked up 200 years ago.
You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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tommytalldog
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-02-05 03:54:00Copy HTML "A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." H.L. Mencken |
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majorshrapnel
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-02-11 10:59:56Copy HTML Communism is a great idea, wrong species.
Jimmy Carr |