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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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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-03-21 12:13:30Copy HTML "I started life with two great advantages. No money & good parents." Margaret Thatcher. |
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-03-21 12:47:17Copy HTML "Your ancestors survived the ice age & hunted tigers with pointed sticks. Act like you descended from them." Unknown. After witnessing the antics of the kids on spring break in Florida, I felt compelled to post this quote. |
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-03-23 01:12:24Copy HTML "A classic is something everyone wants to have read, but nobody wants to read." Mark Twain. |
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-03-23 08:27:04Copy HTML I haven't yet bought War and Peace just so I can admire it on the shelf as I doubt if I'll ever read such a huge thing, but I might (buy it that is not read it). Back when my granddaughter was in grade one at their school Christmas gathering, the teachers broke the different class down into supervised activity rooms. For example a small fish ponds was set up in one room and a small bowling game in another. The school Librarian had the kids pick short storey books off the shelf for her to read out loud to them. As the evening was coming to an end and she was about to stop the kids being kids said can you read one more for us. She said ok just one and send a small boy over the the shelf to pick one out. I just happened to be standing by the shelf and the boy picked up a book to read and the teacher was looking the other way and wasn't paying attention and I said out loud he has one and it's called War and Peace. When she turned around to face me the look on her face was priceless but then she seen me smiling and had to have a little giggle herself. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-03-28 01:45:33Copy HTML "I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." Henry David Thoreau |
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-03-31 04:22:02Copy HTML "Smart people learn from everyone & everything, average people learn from experiences, stupid people already know everything."
Socrates. |
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MarkUK
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-03-31 05:53:33Copy HTML No need to tell me that, I knew it already. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-03-31 07:48:41Copy HTML So, you fit in with one of the three categories. |
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-04-01 11:52:37Copy HTML "When a clown moves into a palace he doesn't become a king, instead the palace becomes a circus."
Turkish proverb |
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-04-01 08:17:55Copy HTML "The fact that jellyfish have survived for 650 million years without brains gives hope to many people."
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-04-04 04:12:40Copy HTML "Remember, if you are really good at your job, work hard & are dedicated, you get to do other people's work too."
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MarkUK
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-04-04 05:44:17Copy HTML "Trump is an arsehole who'll ruin the world economy because he won't admit he's wrong" Unknown, possibly British. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-04-04 09:14:49Copy HTML Now Mark, don't be so soon to rush to judgement. Look at the record, Trump has never been wrong yet. Let's play the odds. Liberation Day is here, now. |
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-04-05 07:42:23Copy HTML That's the problem, in his own twisted mind he's never wrong. As I've said before a would-be dictator in the making. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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majorshrapnel
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-04-05 10:05:43Copy HTML Mark, do you like humble pie? Geez, listen to Mr. Steak and Kidney here. |
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-04-05 12:29:59Copy HTML "The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them." Erasmus, The Praise of Folly. |
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-04-05 04:49:11Copy HTML "Now that my diet has failed me, I shall focus on growing taller."
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-04-05 10:41:20Copy HTML "By replacing your morning coffee with green tea, you can lose...................................................What little joy you have left in life."
Uknown |
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-04-06 04:43:00Copy HTML "Behold the pale horse, the man who sat on him was death...............and hell followed with him."
Johnny Ringo, Tombstone |
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-04-08 08:38:18Copy HTML "You tell 'em I'm coming and hell's coming with me." (Wyatt Earp, Tombstone) "It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
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majorshrapnel
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-04-09 04:03:39Copy HTML Tell him, not gods but Englishmen, which is the next best thing.
Peachy Carnahan ie Michael Caine in the film The man who would be king. |
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-04-10 01:23:43Copy HTML "Death solves all problems."
"One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic."
Joeph Stalin |
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-04-11 05:51:57Copy HTML As I get older, I remember all of the people I lost along the way.
Maybe a career as a hiking guide wasn't the right choice for me. |
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-04-18 09:20:14Copy HTML "When you have nothing else...................offer chaos."
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-04-18 01:27:12Copy HTML "Love people and use things. Don't use people and love things."
Unknown, couldn't be Trump |