Favourite quotations

[ncutler]

Just came across this and thought it might be worth sharing:

"When you are Dead, you don't know you are Dead. It is difficult only for others.
It is the same when you are stupid."

[Audax67]

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

[Tangled Metal]

Mine is the death and taxes quote. I won't type it out as I'll end up not getting the quote exactly right. No idea why I like it but I do.

[Mick F]

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you

Bob Dylan

[661-Pete]

I have this one somewhat on my mind, since I took up playing bridge again a few months ago, after a lapse of many decades.

Online bridge, at any rate, is full of pompous characters who think they're world-class players - when they're not. A bit like some cycling forums....

So: this piece of wisdom, which comes, apparently from Anton Chekhov (I didn't know that!):

"Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing."

[Audax67]

^^^Like the Scots proverb, "fools and bairns should never see half-done work".

[bovlomov]

“Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticise him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.”

and

"Don't take down a wall before you know why it was built." (That's one for modernisers, reformers and revolutionaries everywhere - and interior designers.)

[Edwards]

I can not remember who said "If it made any difference they would not let us vote".

Seems vary apt at the moment.

[cycleruk]

Mine is the death and taxes quote. I won't type it out as I'll end up not getting the quote exactly right. No idea why I like it but I do.

"There are only two things certain in life."

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My Granddad when being served a cup of Cha would say, "You'd sell more if you filled the cup up".

[profpointy]

"when in trouble, when in doubt
run in circles, scream and shout"

[mercalia]

Once a Tory, always a crook

[Paulatic]

Whatever I am, wherever I am, this is me. This is my life.
Hannah Hauxwell

[sjs]

I can not remember who said "If it made any difference they would not let us vote".

Seems vary apt at the moment.

Careful, you'll have Manc33 on here.

I'm a trendy consumer. Just look at my Nexus 4 using hovercraft full of eels.

[mercalia]

the only good zombie is a dead zombie


3 economists were discussing Brexit
One said the £ will fall
Another said there will be mass unemployment
the third said. God! I'll lose my job

[loch eck steve]

where all in it together ! - George Osborne