Quotable Quotes

[Foreigner]

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age

Author : – Robert Frost

 

[amaroo]

Grab em by the balls and their hearts & minds will follow

......Charles Colson

 

[AVC]

You can always achieve more with a kind word....



and a gun,

than you can with just a kind word.

Although my wife says "you will trap more bees with honey"

 

[Cruiser Elite]

'Believe not what the ear hears - believe only what the eye sees' - courtesy of one of my Chinese ex-girlfriends.

 

[Nigelinoz]

My favorite has always been this one-
"Some men see things as they are and ask why ,I dream things that never were and ask why not"-Robert Kennedy.
I find it incredibly poignant.
Cheers
N'oz
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[drron]

Anna's election campaign reminds me of one of Winston Churchill's quotes-"You can never underestimate the intelligence of the electorate."

 

[Austman]

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

 

[Nigelinoz]

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

That's probably the most apt quote for AFF.
Cheers
N'oz

 

[casanovawa]

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." Albert Einstein

This one is also applicable to AFF members

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." Henny Youngman​

 

[Bundy Bear]

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – John Powell

Another one, the short version is my current flyertalk signature.

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain.

And a third one for good measure, another Mark Twain quote.

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear." :-|

 

[amaroo]

Mr. Churchill, you're drunk!" "And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning I shall be sober."

 

[tuapekastar]

Continuing the Churchill theme: (allegedly) Lady Astor to Churchill: "If you were my husband, I'd poison your tea," to which he responded, "Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it!"

 

[amaroo]

Love this one,

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

Kung fu Panda

 

[JohnM]

'Believe not what the ear hears - believe only what the eye sees' - courtesy of one of my Chinese ex-girlfriends.

Is that why she's ex? :mrgreen:.

 

[Foreigner]

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

- Oscar Levant

More about OL here:

Oscar Levant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[UP4014]

The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage. — President George Bush Sr


Great Aviation Quotes: Airline Business

 

[Foreigner]

The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.

—Unknown Author

 

[Foreigner]

"Learn from the mistakes of others...you don't have time to make them all yourself."

-Anon

 

[Foreigner]

"Man with one chopstick go hungry."

- Saw this as I walked past China Moon restaurant, Bondi Road but I believe quote is attributed to Confucius.

 

[Foreigner]

When a woman dresses shabbily, one notices the dress, but when she dresses well, one notices the woman."

- Anon