Quotable Quotes

Re: Whilst we're on about the end of the world...

I pity the man who does not drink, when they wake up in the morning that is the best they will feel all day.

Frank Sinatra
 
Re: Whilst we're on about the end of the world...

Life is a cough sandwich. But if you’ve got enough bread, you don’t taste the cough.” –Jonathan Winters
 
Re: Whilst we're on about the end of the world...

"Failures are not fatal, and successes are not eternal."

- Winston Churchill
 
Re: Whilst we're on about the end of the world...

In order to destroy bourgeois society you must debauch it's money.
Lenin
 
Re: Whilst we're on about the end of the world...

Management is the art of taking credit for other people's work.

Australians used to be know for their scepticism; they are now remarkable for their gullibility.

- Germaine Greer.
 
The sum which 2 married people owe one another defies calculation.It is an infinite debt which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Goethe.
 
Holidays are like men - they never last long enough.

- Kathy Lette (aka rude cough :p).
 
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Life is a cough sandwich. But if you’ve got enough bread, you don’t taste the cough.” –Jonathan Winters

The variation I've heard is:

"The more bread you've got the less cough you've gotta eat" - Eddie Murphy (IIRC)
 
Investment rule 9-When all the experts and forecasters agree-something else is going to happen

Bob Farrell
former Merrill Lynch market strategist
 
[h=1]Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.[/h]-Ernest Hemingway, author and. journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)
 
When the white missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had
the land.
They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes.
When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

~ Desmond Tutu
 
The first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone.

~ George Roberts
 
If you're not familiar with the work of Steven Wright, he's the famous erudite scientist who once said: "I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates." His mind sees things differently than most.


Here are some Wrightisms:

1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.

3 - Half the people you know are below average.

4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

8 - If you want the rainbow, you have got to put up with the rain.

9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.

10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend, ...... But she left me before we met.

12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?

13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?

14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.

19 - I intend to live forever... So far, so good.

21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."

24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name.

25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.

29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.

33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.

34 - If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

35 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?
 
The best cure for sea sickness is to sit under a tree.

Spike Milligan
 
The three articles of Civil Service faith: it takes longer to do things quickly, it's more expensive to do them cheaply and it's more democratic to do them in secret.
Jim Hacker, Yes Minister.
 
"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows."

- Pope Paul VI, Italian pope, 1897-1978
 

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