Quotable Quotes

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[JohnK]

"Hagen said that no-one remembers who finished second. But they still ask me if I ever think about that putt I missed to win the 1970 Open at St. Andrews. I tell them that some times it doesn't cross my mind for a full five minutes."

- Doug Sanders

 

[drron]

Some things never change.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.
Charles Mackay.1841.

 

[drron]

“THE further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
George Orwell

‘If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking’.
General George Patton

 

[get me outta here]

It doesn't seem to be affecting Trumpy too badly. I notice Trump is not supported as much on AFF as he was to begin with.

“THE further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
George Orwell

‘If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking’.
General George Patton

 

[drron]

Maybe you are looking in the wrong place.Here is Nancy Pelosi explaining why she isn't sending the impeachment bills to the Senate.Quite frankly belongs in the humour thread.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1207780977382060034

And by the way Trump hasn't been Impeached.It only occurs when the bill is delivered to the Senate.

 

[drron]

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[JohnM]

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

- John Kenneth Galbraith

 

[JohnM]

Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it.

- Sir Roger Scruton

 

[TheRealTMA]

Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it.

- Sir Roger Scruton

I like that idea.

 

[get me outta here]

Sounds an interesting character, albeit a bit outdated on who is the dominant force these days.

How to be a Conservative:
Bloomsbury (Sept 2014)

What does it mean to be a conservative in an age so sceptical of conservatism?

How can we live in the presence of our 'canonized forefathers' at a time when their cultural, religious and political bequest is so routinely rejected? With soft left-liberalism as the dominant force in Western politics, what can conservatives now contribute to public debate that will not be dismissed as pure nostalgia? A personal and witty book, in which the author explains how to live as a conservative in spite of the pressures to exist otherwise.

How to be a Conservative was chosen among political books by the Sunday Times and as book of the year by Labour MP Jon Cruddas in The New Statesman.

Bloomsbury Continuum, 2014

Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it.

- Sir Roger Scruton

 

[JessicaTam]

Victoria Police Chief Commissioner:

"It's not a crime to be a cough, but it is a crime against common sense".

 

[Cossie]

John Cleese quoting HL Mencken

https://twitter.com/x/status/755712418077089792

 

[drron]

With all this talk of printing money to get through this crisis Voltaire's comment is pertinent.
“Paper money always eventually returns to its intrinsic value — zero.”

 

[JohnM]

"It cost a lot of money to look this cheap." - Dolly Parton

 

[JohnM]

Just on the Dolly theme a little longer:

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde."

 

[drron]

"Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer" ~ Ricky Gervais

 

[drron]

‘“Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
Louis E Boone

 

[Cossie]

Too close to the truth for me, I tell people I want this on my gravestone:

"Gunna, shoulda, woulda, coulda, but didn't."

 

[drron]

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Captain Tom Moore.