Interesting Quotes

Man has two ears but only one tongue, so that he may hear twice as much as he speaks.
Epictetus

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As paraphrased by the late Malcolm Fraser

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"If I asked my customers what they wanted they would have said 'a faster horse'". Henry Ford.

The mark of a mature man is a certain scar he bears; the memory of a perfect woman never won, or of a once-true love forever lost. However much he may love you, he is only here because she is not. - Unknown


Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense dancing. - William James


And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light - Dylan Thomas


Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks

Alcohol and religion are much the same.
Too much of either clouds your judgement.

- Oft repeated by my late grandfather (probably 'stolen' from someone famous)

All the world's mad, save thee and me.

And I've my doubts about thee.




Often quoted by my long departed Irish grandmother. :)

It is better to keep ones mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Apparently from the bible but has been paraphrased by Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain