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Fools and bairns should never see half-done work.
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We need a fine quotation full of brilliant Bobness today, after all it is his 79th birthday today 8)
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She who always wants to have the last word soon finds herself alone, talking to herself
Breton saying
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One for the porridge thread.

Oats:

A grain which in England is generally fed to livestock, but in Scotland sustains the populace.

Samuel Johnson.
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jimlews wrote:One for the porridge thread.

Oats:

A grain which in England is generally fed to livestock, but in Scotland sustains the populace.

Samuel Johnson.

Livestock: horses!
..
Makes sense mind, for England has the best horses, and Scotland has the best men!
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Cyril Haearn wrote:She who always wants to have the last word soon finds herself alone, talking to herself
Breton saying


There's nothing worse than a good woman; and there is nothing finer than a really BAD woman.

Groucho Marx.
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Cyril Haearn wrote:
jimlews wrote:One for the porridge thread.

Oats:

A grain which in England is generally fed to livestock, but in Scotland sustains the populace.

Samuel Johnson.

Livestock: horses!
..
Makes sense mind, for England has the best horses, and Scotland has the best men!


Cyril! Fancy meeting you here! Y'll have had y'r TEA then?

A minor elaboration because horses ARE livestock.

I'll pass on the Scotsmen, thanks. I'm rather suspicious of men in dresses.

In the Wehrmacht they were called 'the ladies from Hell'.

The REAL scottish ladies, good or bad, are of course, delightful!
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Television is great, it helps one learn. Anytime the telly is on, I go in another room to read a book
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Cyril Haearn wrote:Television is great, it helps one learn. Anytime the telly is on, I go in another room to read a book
Groucho


I'm not sure Groucho was one to use 'one'. I think he was more of a down to earth 'me' sort of a chap.
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Refrain from doing good, then no ill shall befall you
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Audax67 wrote:Fools and bairns should never see half-done work.


My father used to say that - had he lived he'd be 102. I haven't heard it since I was a bairn.
John
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Necessity delivers us from the embarrassment of choice.

Luc de Clapiers.
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"Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists
independently of us human beings
and which stands before us like
a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to
our inspection."

Albert Einstein
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Some people have such a thick skin, that they do not need a backbone
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