Thread: Interesting Quotes

"Laugh it up, Fuzzball" - for daughter #2

"Why do you ask, Two Dogs" - for daughter #1

to know one knows nothing is to be truely wise .Anon

You can't know you know nothing, because it means you know 1 thing...that you know nothing...is Anon trying to trick us?

Typical Anon, ****ing with people.

To err is human. To make the same mistake twice is stupid.

"NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE"
(MAD MAX)

"HE CANT BE NOWHERE HE MUST BE SOMEWHERE"
a quote of tribal elders consistantly used (over the 15 years I was involved with them and the area), who are asked if they know where someone is and they dont... It is their way of saying that they dont know where he is but he is still around the area.. But I love that (and the fact they and most in the far north of the state refer to all vehicles as "MOTOR CARS" still )


“WHEN I WAS A BOY OF FOURTEEN, MY FATHER WAS SO IGNORANT I COULD HARDLY STAND TO HAVE THE OLD MAN AROUND. BUT WHEN I GOT TO BE TWENTY-ONE, I WAS ASTONISHED AT HOW MUCH HE HAD LEARNED IN SEVEN YEARS.”-
Mark Twain

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.
Spike Millgan

There are lots of variations to my favourite...

"People are dumb" or as my Farther always said (In his strong Yorkshire accent) - "There's nowt so dumb as folk"

Then there's 'The Yorkshireman's Creed'
" 'Ear all, see all, say nowt"
" Eat all, sup all, pay nowt"
" And if 'tha ever do owt for nowt, the do is for tha sen"

Translates to
Hear everything, see everything, say nothing
Eat everything, drink everything, pay nothing
And if ever you anything for nothing, then do it for yourself

Cheers - Gav

When you can balance a tack hammer on your head you'll be able to head off your opponent with a balanced attack
- The Sphinx

“I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.”
― C.S. Lewis

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis


"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?"
— J.R.R. Tolkien


"Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief."
— J.R.R. Tolkien