Quotable Quotes

[Foreigner]

No pain No gain

(- me!)

 

[Foreigner]

"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes."

- Tony Blair

 

[Flashback]

No pain No gain

(- me!)

Sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains excite me

 

[anat0l]

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary" - Vince Lombardi

 

[Foreigner]

Revenue is vanity, margin is sanity but CASH IS KING

- Anon

 

[drron]

Another prexcient quote from the amazing James Hacker.Quite appropriate for the Eurozone at the moment-
Never believe anything until it is officially denied.

 

[drron]

"How can broke economies lend money to other broke economies who haven't got any money because they can't pay back the money that the broke economy loaned to the other broke economy and shouldn't have lent it to them in the first place because the broke economy can't pay it back?"
Clarke and Dawes

 

[amaroo]

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish

Marcus Aurelius
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[bossreggie]

People who say nothing is impossible have obviously never tried to nail boiling water to a tree.

Boss

 

[JohnK]

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."

- Anon (wrongly attributed to Mark Twain by some)

 

[Foreigner]

"Well done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

 

[drron]

"Travel - its very motion - ought to suggest hope. Despair is the armchair; it is indifference and glazed, incurious eyes. I think travelers are essentially optimists, or else they would never go anywhere."

- Paul Theroux, The Tao of Travel​

 

[JohnM]

By BA Captain Eric Moody:

1. 24 June 1982, BA9 B747 KUL-PER over Indonesia at night after encountering an invisible volcanic ash cloud:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control. I trust that you are not in too much distress."

2. June 2012:

"When I learned to fly in the 1950s, flying was dangerous and sex was safe. When I retired in the 1990s, that had gone the other way around!"

 

[amaroo]

"Pressure,"

"I'll tell you what pressure is.

Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your cough.

Playing cricket is not."

Keith Miller

 

[Foreigner]

"Nothing endures but change."

- Heraclitus, Greek philosopher. (on reflection, the present happenings in Greece relate.)

 

[Foreigner]

'You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an cough kicking contest.'

- Rowan Atkinson

 

[Foreigner]

'The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make a criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.'

'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'

'There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.'


- Malcolm X

 

[Deleted member]

About as useful as a hip pocket on a singlet!

Or as useful as an ash tray on a motorbike.

 

[NM]

What do you do in Melbourne in summer? Well, if it falls on a weekend you have a picnic.
What do you do in Brisbane in winter? Well, if it falls on a weekend you toast marshmallows.

-- NM when I lived in Melbourne for 15 winters between 1991 and 1996.

 

[amaroo]

Where knowledge ends, religion begins

Benjamin Disraeli