Quotable Quotes

[Foreigner]

“The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.”

- Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt, politician and publisher, born 23 December 1918; died 10 November 2015

 

[drron]

Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child.
Cicero.

 

[drron]

I’d rather deal with someone who has an IQ of 130 who thinks it is 120, then to deal with someone who has an IQ of 180 and thinks it’s 200.

Warren Buffet.

 

[Bundy Bear]

One I stole from Facebook today,

“Life is amazing. And then it's awful.
And then it's amazing again.
And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine.
Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary.
That's just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life.
And it's breathtakingly beautiful.”
― L.R. Knost

 

[LadyC]

One I stole from Facebook today,

“Life is amazing. And then it's awful.
And then it's amazing again.
And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine.
Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary.
That's just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life.
And it's breathtakingly beautiful.”
― L.R. Knost

I really like some of her quotes. And her gentle parenting.

 

[Major]

In1935 Winston Churchill addressed the House of Commons. He said:

‘When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure. There is nothing new in the story.It is as old as the sibylline books. It falls into that long, dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong — these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.’

Churchill was warning about mankind’s repeated failure to recognise an emergency until it was too late.

 

[Foreigner]

In1935 Winston Churchill addressed the House of Commons. He said:

‘When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure. There is nothing new in the story.It is as old as the sibylline books. It falls into that long, dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong — these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.’

Churchill was warning about mankind’s repeated failure to recognise an emergency until it was too late.

How true. Not many have heeded to these words.

 

[drron]

In1935 Winston Churchill addressed the House of Commons. He said:

‘When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure. There is nothing new in the story.It is as old as the sibylline books. It falls into that long, dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong — these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.’

Churchill was warning about mankind’s repeated failure to recognise an emergency until it was too late.

Major you must get the same newsletter as I.

 

[TheRealTMA]

In1935 Winston Churchill addressed the House of Commons. He said:

‘When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure. There is nothing new in the story.It is as old as the sibylline books. It falls into that long, dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong — these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.’

Churchill was warning about mankind’s repeated failure to recognise an emergency until it was too late.

Was he referring to his leadership at Gallipoli?

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

The comedian Rita Rudner: "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."

 

[Foreigner]

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.


- Mickey Rooney

 

[Major]

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:


"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than
standing armies.


If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their
currency,first by inflation, then by deflation, the
banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks
will deprive the people of all property - until
their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."​

 

[Major]

John F. Kennedy
held a dinner in the White House for a group of the brightest minds
in the nation at that time. He made this statement:

"This is perhaps
the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in
the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined
alone."

 

[Foreigner]

Thoughts of Umberto Eco:

"I began wearing blue jeans in the days when very few people did, but always on vacation. I found—and still find—them very comfortable, especially when I travel, because there are no problems of creases, tearing, spots. Today they are worn also for looks, but primarily they are very utilitarian. It's only in the past few years that I've had to renounce this pleasure because I've put on weight. True, if you search thoroughly you can find an extra large (Macy's could fit even Oliver Hardy with blue jeans), but they are large not only around the waist, but also around the legs, and they are not a pretty sight."

 

[drron]

The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.

Thomas Jefferson.

 

[amaroo]

Always like this passage...

"My life was torn like wind-blown sand, and the rock was formed when we held hands"

Bobby Hebb - Sunny

[video=youtube;uRWyxzmNdJc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRWyxzmNdJc[/video]

 

[Hvr]

Why are dishes are like girlfriends?






Because you should never do your flat mates.

 

[esseeeayeenn]

Why are dishes are like girlfriends?


Because you should never do your flat mates.

This joke just proves how stupid and inferior straight men are.
Gay men can sleep with each other's boyfriends and STILL do their own washing up.

 

[amaroo]

This joke just proves how stupid and inferior straight men are.
Gay men can sleep with each other's boyfriends and STILL do their own washing up.

Few quotes in this one...

[video=youtube;no5XeOJHxK8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no5XeOJHxK8[/video]

 

[drron]

‘Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.’

Eleanor Roosevelt.