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What's your favourite quote?

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    #362
    pekitivey
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭pekitivey


    If you don't ask, the answer is no!


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    #363
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    pekitivey wrote: »
    If you don't ask, the answer is no!


    Similar one:


    It's better to beg forgivness than ask permission.



    Obviously within reason!


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    #364
    pekitivey
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭pekitivey


    Opinions are like ássholes, everyone has one.


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    #365
    Plopsu
    Registered Users Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Plopsu


    Deleted User wrote: »
    "Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."

    Voltaire

    Could be argued that quite a bit of harm has come from things that people have read....... and if he'd ever seen my dancing, he might change his mind on that one too. :pac:


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    Raheem Euro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 327 ✭✭Raheem Euro


    Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »
    Similar one:


    It's better to beg forgivness than ask permission.



    Obviously within reason!


    Don't complain, don't explain.


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    #367
    tonycascarino
    Registered Users Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭tonycascarino


    “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
    ― William F. Buckley


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    #368
    BrianBoru00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭BrianBoru00


    tonycascarino wrote: »
    “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
    ― William F. Buckley

    How apt for the times we live in 👌


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    #369
    Samuel Vimes
    Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭Samuel Vimes


    I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed...Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.

    Sophocles


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    #370
    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users Posts: 18,592 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    Not one drop of my self-worth, depends on your acceptance of me.

    Quincy Jones.


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    #371
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    "Cast a cold eye on life, on death, Horsemen pass by"

    Yeats.


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    #372
    williestroker1
    Registered Users Posts: 227 ✭✭williestroker1


    "F*** the iceberg"
    Captain of the Titanic.


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    #373
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,777 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    A bench warrant was issued for the arrest of a 32-year-old man who dropped his trousers in the street and abused the gardaí.

    Judge: “Why did you feel the need to take your trousers down?”

    Replied the accused: “I was drunk.”


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    #374
    ManCityFan01
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭ManCityFan01


    ''One run can change your day. Many runs can change your life.''

    I never say it aloud but I've never understood something so clear as much as this quote!


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    #375
    buckwheat
    Registered Users Posts: 344 ✭✭buckwheat


    When the seagulls follow the trawler it is because they think that sardines will be thrown into the sea

    https://youtu.be/XHdgRufNSR8

    :cool:


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    #376
    ManCityFan01
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭ManCityFan01


    buckwheat wrote: »
    When the seagulls follow the trawler it is because they think that sardines will be thrown into the sea

    :cool:

    Still to this day I don't understand what Cantona meant by this :pac::pac:


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    #377
    buckwheat
    Registered Users Posts: 344 ✭✭buckwheat


    He said much later that it meant **** all, he just said whatever came into his head and that he could just have easily have said the curtains are pink but i like them :D


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    #378
    ManCityFan01
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭ManCityFan01


    buckwheat wrote: »
    He said much later that it meant **** all, he just said whatever came into his head and that he could just have easily have said the curtains are pink but i like them :D

    That makes sense! He was always a bit of a Wild Duck :pac::pac:


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    #379
    dennyire
    Registered Users Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭dennyire


    Zip up your mickey.........

    Twink


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    #380
    FrKurtFahrt
    Registered Users Posts: 899 ✭✭✭FrKurtFahrt


    The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.

    Damon Runyon


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    #381
    McDermotX
    Registered Users Posts: 14,945 ✭✭✭✭McDermotX


    Not a real quote, unless lifted from a movie character counts, and obviously requires Connery's deep, smooth brogue......but anyway

    To Connery - "I'll do my best ."

    "Your besht?"
    "Loshers alwhays whine about their besht. Winnersh go home and f*ck the prom queen!"


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    #382
    BalcombeSt4
    Registered Users Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭BalcombeSt4


    "Blood alone moves the wheels of history" ""No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself"


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    #383
    Wanderer2010
    Registered Users Posts: 6,725 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    "Whether you think you can, or you think you cant- you are right"

    "Never regret getting older- its a privilege denied to many"


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    #384
    Ger Roe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,119 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    "To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort”

    Eugene (Gene) Krantz - Legendary Nasa Flight Director for various Apollo missions, including the heroic Apollo 13 rescue mission. He still states that the safe return of the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, was NASA's finest hour.

    'We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch!. Failure is not an option"


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    #385
    Gwynplaine
    Registered Users Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    A thing of beauty is a joy forever.


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    #386
    jr86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭jr86


    "Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt"


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    #387
    martingriff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,794 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    Moma says stupid is as stupid does.

    Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you going to get.

    Forest Gump


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    #388
    Autosport
    Registered Users Posts: 22,259 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Living my best life


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    #389
    Shelflife
    Registered Users Posts: 3,074 ✭✭✭Shelflife


    Decisions are made by those who show up

    Jed Bartlett West Wing


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    #390
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Lead, follow or get out of the way.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #391
    Ned Led Zeppo
    Registered Users Posts: 81 ✭✭Ned Led Zeppo


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Oh, I like that one!
    Reminds me of my doctor.


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