Thread: Great sayings

From Skyfall:

Q, "Age is no guarantee of efficiency"

007, "Youth is no guarantee of innovation"

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Originally Posted by ADMIRAL

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This one cost me ten bucks


Mary Gilmore
1940


Sons of the mountains of Scotland,
Welshmen of coomb and defile,
Breed of the moors of England,
Children of Erin's green isle,
We stand four square to the tempest,
Whatever the battering hail-
No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.

Our women shall walk in honour,
Our children shall know no chain,
This land, that is ours forever,
The invader shall strike at in vain.
Anzac!...Tobruk!...and Kokoda!...
Could ever the old blood fail?
No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.

So hail-fellow-met we muster,
And hail-fellow-met fall in,
Wherever the guns may thunder,
Or the rocketing air-mail spin!
Born of the soil and the whirlwind,
Though death itself be the gale-
No foe shall gather our harvest
Or sit on our stockyard rail.

We are the sons of Australia,
of the men who fashioned the land;
We are the sons of the women
Who walked with them hand in hand;
And we swear by the dead who bore us,
By the heroes who blazed the trail,
No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.

Good Judgement requires Experience!

(Unfortunately, Experience is what you get from Poor Judgement...)

Coop

A chicken and a pig are discussing cooking a tasty breakfast to thank the farmer for looking after them so well. The chicken says, "I'll provide an egg and you provide the bacon." The pig thinks for a minute and then says, "For you, that's only a donation, but for me it's a sacrifice."

While any large task can be completed by applying the maxim "you eat the elephant one bite at a time" you should at least first establish the requirement to eat the elephant.

Some advise only works one way, what goes up must come down does not work when you express it as what goes down must come up.

You don't have to outrun the lion, just the next slowest prey...