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Re: Fave quotes...

Posted: 8 Jan 2019, 3:49pm
by Cyril Haearn
It is a poor pupil who does not do better than her teacher
-Leonardo da Vinci

Re: Fave quotes...

Posted: 8 Jan 2019, 6:29pm
by ferrit worrier
Cyril Haearn wrote:It is a poor pupil who does not do better than her teacher
-Leonardo da Vinci


In secondary school, in the metalwork room. There was a poster in a similar vein " the teacher only suceeds when the pupil suceeds the teacher." That was Jock Reid a brilliant teacher.

Re: Fave quotes...

Posted: 9 Jan 2019, 9:12am
by Cours
Alles hat ein Ende, nur die Wurst hat zwei.

(Everything has an end, only the sausage has two)

Re: Fave quotes...

Posted: 9 Jan 2019, 1:24pm
by Cyril Haearn
An uncultured king is a crowned donkey

Ireland, Bourke 1856

Re: Fave quotes...

Posted: 9 Jan 2019, 4:34pm
by Cyril Haearn
-Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!
Ronald Reagan
..
-Gimme five billion dollars to build this wall!
PotUS Trump

Re: Fave quotes...

Posted: 11 Jan 2019, 9:04pm
by Cyril Haearn
'The world needs more men like the shy boy from Dunblane'

The Guardian praised retiring tennis legend Andy Murray (Scotland) for his feminist views
Plus One!

Re: Fave quotes...

Posted: 12 Jan 2019, 2:52pm
by Cours
Bald reif hält nicht steif

Early ripe, early rotten

Quite a metaphor for this Brexit carry on.

Re: Fave quotes...

Posted: 12 Jan 2019, 6:35pm
by Cyril Haearn
Ossis sind schlau und stellen sich dumm
Bei Wessis ist es anders rum

East Germans are smart and pretend to be thick
West Germans are the other way round

Not so simple now mind, many are both. Or neither. Or define themselves by time (before /after 1989), not by place :wink:

Re: Fave quotes...

Posted: 13 Jan 2019, 5:22pm
by Cyril Haearn
'I know enough people who are afraid of dying, want to live as long as possible, but cannae occupy themselves on a wet Sunday afternoon'
..
Just spent a wet Sunday afternoon cycling, cooking, reading Aesops Fables :wink:

Re: Fave quotes...

Posted: 13 Jan 2019, 6:16pm
by Mick F
"Time, my birdies!"

Freddie May, long time landlord of the Queens Head, Albaston.

Re: Fave quotes...

Posted: 14 Jan 2019, 8:13pm
by Cyril Haearn
'The pursuit of happiness is the source of all happiness'

Text on a shopping bag

Re: Fave quotes...

Posted: 21 Jan 2019, 7:59pm
by Cours
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

Re: Fave quotes...

Posted: 21 Jan 2019, 8:50pm
by Cyril Haearn
You think my shoes are made of leather
The Who

Re: Fave quotes...

Posted: 22 Jan 2019, 6:16am
by Cours
Hey! teachers! Leave those kids alone.

All in all you'rejust another brick in the wall.

Gilmour

Re: Fave quotes...

Posted: 22 Jan 2019, 4:20pm
by Cyril Haearn
We never knew what friends we had
Til we came to Leningrad
Billy Joel