Fave quotes...

[Cyril Haearn]

I want it all
I want it all
I want it all
And I want it now

Freddie M

[Pastychomper]

'When people say "We must move with the times," they really mean "You must do it my way."'

- Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant.

[Cyril Haearn]

She who has visions, should go to the doctor
Helmut Schmidt, German politrickian
..
Any time I feel an urge to take exercise, I lie down until I feel better

[Cyril Haearn]

'What matters, is what comes out at the end/back'
Helmet Kohl, German politrickian

(The image is of a donkey, what comes out the back of a donkey?)
..
'My weight is an Official Secret'
HK

[Cyril Haearn]

The brain is a wonderful organ! It starts to work when one gets up in the morning, and doesnae stop until one gets to work!

[Cyril Haearn]

It is nice when people come to visit
It is nice too when they stay a while to eat and talk
And it is especially nice when they go away again

After Wilhelm Busch

[Cyril Haearn]

She who doesnae believe in miracles is not a realist
Golda Meir

[Pastychomper]

Seen on another forum:

Mutual, reciprocal respect among equals, "as yourself", the whole and only basis of equity, peace and goodwill among men.

That such different characters as Dr. Stallman, an outspoken atheist, Thomas Jefferson, an agnostic politician, and Jesus Christ, who should need no introduction, all recognized the same principle as the single foundation of everything good in human relations only emphasizes the timeless, self evident nature of this simple principle, this truth.

[Cyril Haearn]

Coach travel is like sitting on a turboprop aircraft, tearing down the runway but never taking off

robgul of this parish

(Hovercraft travel is (was?) like that too)

[Polisman]

On meanness:

He was tighter than an otter's pocket.

[Cyril Haearn]

Went to a talk by an undertaker

She related how she pointed at a shooting star: 'look, there is your grandad!', she whispered

'How stupid do you think I am?', bleated Cyril (8)

The undertaker gave up 'lying' to children after that

[DNC123]

Never go back. Never go back.

Never surrender the future you've earned.

Keep to the track, to the beaten track.

Never return to the bridges you burned.

Felix Dennis

[briansnail]

Not knowing the second Law of thermodynamics is equivalent to never having read a work by Shakespeare-CP Snow
Under Capitalism man exploits man. Under Communism its just the opposite. John Galbraith
To see a world in a grain of Sand.And heaven in a flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand. And eternity in an hour. Blake
Pigs look us straight in the eye and see an equal. Churchill
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilisation. Freud
I think the world market for computers is maybe...five Chairman IBM

I do need to credit the original source : Wonderful world (Marcus Chown)

[rotavator]

My aunt, on seeking a lover:

"If you keep on searching through the woodpile, then you end up with a rotten log"

[Cyril Haearn]

It works in practice, but will it work in theory?

Garett Fitzgerald