Quotable Quotes

[TheEmu]

"One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world."

MALALA YOUSAFZAI, who was shot by the Taliban last year after speaking out in favor of girls' education in Pakistan.

Lovely to see her able to address the UN last week

 

[JohnM]

"Congratulations, Branson. I predict that you will either go to prison or become a millionaire."

- Parting words from Richard Branson's headmaster when he left Stowe school aged almost 17 in 1967.

(From 'Losing My Virginity, an Autobiography' by Richard Branson - a sensational read so far and I'm less than 10% into it! The previous page, where he does describe losing his virginity, is hilarious - in a nutshell, he thought he'd encountered an extremely enthusiastic, multi-coughic girl, but in reality she was suffering an asthma attack! Slightly embellished, I'm sure, but nevertheless a laugh .)

 

[drron]

There is no problem that a Government cannot make worse.
Milton Freidman

 

[drron]

‘When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.’
― Ernest Hemingway

 

[Bundy Bear]

Live without pretending. Love without depending. Listen without defending. Speak without offending. — Drake

"Where is the sauce?!"

- Manu Fieldel

That reminds me of this iconic Australian line.

Where's the cheese.

If you google it first comes up, Who Moved the Cheese, until you add the bit "Peter Russel Clarke"

 

[Foreigner]

Live without pretending. Love without depending. Listen without defending. Speak without offending. — Drake

‘When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.’
― Ernest Hemingway

Good ones.

 

[JessicaTam]

Live without pretending. Love without depending. Listen without defending. Speak without offending. — Drake



That reminds me of this iconic Australian line.

Where's the cheese.

If you google it first comes up, Who Moved the Cheese, until you add the bit "Peter Russel Clarke"

Don't forget "Butter will make it better".

 

[drron]

“We make a living by what we get, wemake a life by what we give”
WinstonChurchill​

 

[Foreigner]

"Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle."

"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."

- Bob Hope

 

[JohnM]

I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better. - Yogi Berra

 

[JohnM]

The more ostentatious the wedding, the greater the probability of a divorce. - JohnM

 

[basso]

Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you've come to mow its lawns. -David Sedaris

 

[Major]

Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you've come to mow its lawns. -David Sedaris

They need to put this sign up in some QF lounges

 

[a330j]

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation. Caius Petronius, Roman Consul 66AD

 

[kelvedon]

83.6% of statistics are made up.

 

[Major]

We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author

 

[Major]

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

~John Quinton, American actor/writer

 

[JohnM]

In judging our progress as individuals, we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education...but internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being: humility, purity, generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve your fellow men - qualities within the reach of every human soul. - Nelson Mandela 1977 (copied on Monday from a plaque on the wall of Mandela's house in Soweto - which is well worth visiting).

....No mention of one's FF status as one of the "external factors" back in 1977 .

 

[Major]

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician

 

[Jacques Vert]

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician

My favourite from the General:

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?