Famous Quote Thread

'Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.'

Robert Frost

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

Benjamin Franklin

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Play it cool Trig, play it cool"

Del Trotter

'Never mind that sh1t............here comes Mongo!'

Anonymous

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”

Nietzsche

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”

Nietzsche

“… the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Memoirs, Correspondence And Private Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Ed. By T.J. Randolph

"could have gone either way"

Prime Minister Boris Johnson

...although the pr1ck was always described as 'comfortable' , and not on a ventilator.


Hyperbole?

"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."

Rahm Emanuel (politician)

"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws"            There is not 1 truly sovereign nation in the world including the so called bogeymen of china and russia.

[i][b]Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.
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Albert Pike

aka The pope of Freemasonry

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education"

Mark Twain

“If you don't build your dream someone else will hire you to help build theirs.”

Tony Gaskins

"Man who go to bed with itchy bottom, he wake up with stinky finger."

Confucius

'An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile-hoping it will eat him last.'

Winston Churchill

Think of how stupid the average person is and realise half of them are stupider than that.

George Carlin

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.

W. C. Fields

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Groucho Marx

Pass the Dutchie pon the left hand side - Musical Youth


Never a frown With Golden Brown  - Stranglers

'Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see'

Have you been taking it up the arris more than you usually do?

Charlie Pickelhaube

That one's only recently became famous not sure the lads will know it

A horsey one

'If you missed the wedding don't go to the funeral'

it shall become a standard-bearer for the ant community, Denzil

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company"

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

I spam therefore I am

edy

Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss

I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam!

Graham Chapman

He who laughs last, laughs longest


the winner

"History Repeats Itself, And You Can Bet On It...... Oh Joy"

Escapee

'A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men'

Willy Wonka

Wonka related horsey betting one

'Geese that lay golden eggs are not for sale'

'Jack of all trades master of none'

Men get turned on by what they see. Women get turned on by what they hear.

Keith - The Office