Quotable Quotes

[coriander]

"She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life."

- Junot Diaz.

 

[Foreigner]

“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them!”

- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac

 

[JessicaTam]

"She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life."

- Junot Diaz.

Ouch!
......

 

[drron]

"Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed."
Robert Heinlien

"You don't pay taxes – they take taxes."
Chris Rock.

 

[Foreigner]

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

- David Mellor (b. 1949), British Conservative politician

 

[JohnM]

Relevant this week:

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

 

[JohnM]

Topical:

"There is only one thing that you can always believe in a newspaper, that is the price on the front cover." - Bart coughmings.

 

[Foreigner]

Then opposition leader Tony Abbott’s gaffe at a political campaign in Melbourne City:

Answering a question, he said, "No one -- however smart, however well-educated, however experienced -- is the suppository of all wisdom."

Link to YouTube video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tQNMEq6E5Ic

 

[JohnM]

If it has t!ts or tyres it will cause you problems - Adam, circa day 1 .

 

[anat0l]

"Chess - like love, like music - has the power to make men happy."

- Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess master


"The number of ways to do something wrong always exceeds the number of ways to do it right."

- Garry Kasparov, Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion

 

[Foreigner]

Attributed to Larry Hardiman:

“Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"”

 

[Foreigner]

"What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important."

- Dwight Eisenhower, US President

 

[Foreigner]

"Any boss who sacks a worker for not turning up today is a bum."

Bob Hawke, Australian PM
At Royal Perth Yacht Club, 1983 when Australia II won the America's Cup

 

[drron]

The government pretends to pay us so we pretend to work.
Several Cubans.
But adapted from the Russians.

 

[Major]

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.'

Billy Connolly

 

[TheRealTMA]

Also "Never trust a man who when left alone with a tea cosy doesn't try it on." BC.

 

[JohnM]

Live your life. Don't wait, because right now is the oldest you have ever been - and the youngest you will ever be.

 

[Foreigner]

"If you never miss a plane, you're spending too much time at the airport."

- George Stigler

 

[Major]

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes.
A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."
--
Thomas
Jefferson

 

[Foreigner]

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."


"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."


"Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, 'It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."


― Babe Ruth