Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
If we do not hit our goal we will be forced to close the site.

Current status: https://keepboardsalive.com/

Annual subs are best for most impact. If you are still undecided on going Ad Free - you can also donate using the Paypal Donate option. All contribution helps. Thank you.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.

What quotes become inappropriate when mis-attributed?

2

Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,909 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    "Let them eat cake" Marie Antoinette Capet
    maudgonner wrote: »
    'Well Holy God, Biddy!"

    - Richard Dawkins.
    Funnily enough Mick Lally was an atheist and considered religion to be 'codology.'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
    - Kneemos


    (Really it was Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, the internet tells me)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,961 ✭✭✭cml387


    "As a nation we are living beyond our means" Charles Haughey

    I think I'm doing it wrong.


  • Site Banned Posts: 806 ✭✭✭Martypants1


    WTF? You just stole this thread idea from reddit.....

    A new low...

    https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4b2m5a/which_quote_becomes_inappropriate_when/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"

    - Casanova


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,961 ✭✭✭cml387


    "I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member."

    Jose Mourinho


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    "Don't touch my eggs, I'll be back on Sunday".

    Jesus H Christ.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    You can't handle the truth! - Bertie Ahern

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    WTF? You just stole this thread idea from reddit.....

    A new low...

    https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4b2m5a/which_quote_becomes_inappropriate_when/

    Pretty sure that's how a lot of threads in AH start.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

    - Donald Trump


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    WTF? You just stole this thread idea from reddit.....

    A new low...

    https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4b2m5a/which_quote_becomes_inappropriate_when/
    I don't think you understand how the Internet works.


    (Abraham Lincoln)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    - Michael D Higgins


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    It's okay to eat fish cause they don't have any feelings.
    - Martin 's Mad About Fish Guy on RTE


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,867 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    “The soul is healed by being with children.” - Jimmy Saville


    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Jaden


    "I'll need some Chemicals to remove this Polish" - Adolf H.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    “If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.”

    Sean Dunne


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭Elemonator


    "My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars"- God


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    "I love the smell of napalm in the morning"

    Gerry Adams


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    "Show me the money"

    Any Irish Politician


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    "A boy's best friend is his mother"

    Daniel O'Donnell


  • Advertisement
  • Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

    Joseph Stalin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,621 ✭✭✭valoren


    "I feel the need, the need for Speed!" - Princess Diana.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭eeguy


    “What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”

    Every public sector worker.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭eeguy


    "Say hello to my little friend"

    Jimmy Saville.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 639 ✭✭✭Endaaaagh


    "Where my ho's at?"
    Gerry Daly


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭ceekay74


    Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

    Shane McGowan


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭ceekay74


    When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

    ISIS


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭ceekay74


    Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it.

    David Cameron


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭ceekay74


    I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

    Bono


  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 282 ✭✭Ronald Wilson Reagan


    Read my lips.


Advertisement