Quotable Quotes

[Bundy Bear]

I agree with it so I thought best to share.

 

[Foreigner]

"For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, from 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'

 

[Foreigner]

Few quotes on drinking:


"I drink to make other people more interesting." ― Ernest Hemingway


"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria." ― Benjamin Franklin


"To alcohol! The cause of and solution to all of life's problems." ― The Simpsons


"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker." ― Ogden Nash


"When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink." — Frantois Rabelais

 

[drron]

Winston Churchill had many sayings on drinking-
Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.
Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.

I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learnt to like it.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

On champagne: “In success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.”

“Remember, gentlemen, it’s not just France we are fighting for, it’s Champagne!

“Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of Champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.”

“A single glass of Champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.”

 

[drron]

‘The only financial innovation useful to the country in the last 20 years is the ATM.’

Paul Volcker (Chairman of the US Federal Reserve from 1979–1987) 2013
Talking on banks.

 

[JohnM]

I've never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I've sure woken up with a few.

- Bobby Bare C&W singer, but a line borrowed by Warren Buffet in relation to some investments.

 

[Foreigner]

"By the time a man realises that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."

- Charles Wadsworth

 

[Foreigner]

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."

- Miles Kington (1941-2008)

 

[Foreigner]

"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."

- Benjamin Franklin

 

[Foreigner]

'I am nothing but a bloody amoeba. I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his own children.'

- Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

 

[Foreigner]

Billie Jean King on the worst advice she got:

"I don't like the advice that an athlete needs to go out on top. It's like telling the eight-best journalist in the world, 'You used to be No. 1, so you should get out of the game.' I don't think you tell someone to quit. You deserve a full career, whether as an athlete, a performer, dancer, anyone. It's your choice...Don't let others define you. You define yourself."

 

[JohnM]

Particularly pertinent to AFF:

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. - Aldous Huxley.

I have to totally agree - especially after visiting Rwanda in August. Quite extraordinary.

So, therefore, an adjunct to the above is:

Put away your preconceptions and just go. - JohnM.

 

[Foreigner]

US Presidents: 30 great one-liners - Telegraph

Interesting but some facts with one-liners may not be accurate, from reading the comments.

Liked these:

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” - George Washington

“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” - Theodore Roosevelt

 

[Cruiser Elite]

"The creation of wealth is the primary factor that has made the USA the most powerful nation we have ever seen - the distribution of that wealth is what is going to bring it to its knees" - Cruiser Elite circa 01:30am Thur Nov 21 after an exhaustive session on red wine at the completion of a brief but productive Company Directors meeting - I am sure some readers here will know and understand such circumstances and how said circumstances can lead to such profound philosophical statements.

 

[drron]

Profound and to the point.Well done.

 

[TomVexille]

Another from Winston Churchill that's somewhat relevant to AFF:

My tastes are simple: I'm easily satisfied with the best.

 

[Foreigner]

People are much more alike inside than they are on the surface.

- Verne Burnett

 

[Warks]

People! What a bunch of coughs!

Roy The IT Crowd.

 

[codash1099]

[FONT=&quot]It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. - Lawrence J. Peter [/FONT]

 

[codash1099]

Wine:

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself. - Mark Twain

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more." --Proverbs 31:6-7

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the wine, or any other reason. - Latin proverb

Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it." - William Shakespeare --Othello, Act II, Sc. 3

What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch? - W.C. Fields