What's your favourite quote?

_Brian · 10-11-2017 11:51pm

“Hold my beer, watch this” has spawned so many good YouTube clips.

“Trust the awesomeness” by skippy, from a series of books I’m listening to at the moment.

keepalive213 · 10-11-2017 11:58pm

Jellon Lamb: (singing) Oh, Danny boy, the flies, the flies are crawling

Hotei · 10-11-2017 11:59pm

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius

11-11-2017 12:01am

"You only fail when you quit trying"

- My dad, but he probably got it from someone else.

LETHAL LADY · 11-11-2017 12:03am

'Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned'
You can't bate a bit of auld William Congreve.
Used only recently in the Dr.Foster tv series.
Unfortunately, in my experience, rings true too.

lazybones32 · 11-11-2017 12:04am

Too many favourites, so i'll give one by Ed from Youghal:
Lecturer: the early bird gets the worm.
Ed: but the early worm gets eaten...
Class.

Ten of Swords · 11-11-2017 12:05am

If you think hiring a professional is expensive just wait until you hire an amateur

The difference between you and those you envy is that you settled for less

_Brian · 11-11-2017 12:06am

My dad used to say something about people who constantly second guessed their actions or were stuck on events in history.

“It’s hard to move forward when your always looking behind yourself”

Ipso · 11-11-2017 12:07am

All men are guilty of the good they did not do.
Voltaire

Ulysses Gaze · 11-11-2017 12:07am

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing" - Socrates

MyStubbleItches · 11-11-2017 12:08am

A quote from my oul fella

'Never walk first in a bog or second in a forest'

EPAndlee · 11-11-2017 12:14am

My favourite quotes come from Ron Swanson
'When people get too chummy with me I like to call them by the wrong name to let them know I don't really care about them'

'There's only one thing I hate more than lying:skim milk. Which is water that's lying about being milk'

EPAndlee · 11-11-2017 12:14am

Edit.

Lorelli! · 11-11-2017 12:14am

Brian Clough.."I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one."

And also from Mohammed Ali about Brian Clough..

"There is some fella in London named some Brian -- Brian Clough. Some soccer player or something. I heard all the way in Indonesia that this fella talks too much. He says that there is another Muhammad Ali -- there is just one Muhammad Ali.

"I'm the talker. Now Clough, I've had enough, stop it."

Are Am Eye · 11-11-2017 12:14am

Winnie the Poo and one of his side kicks traveling in as storm....

sidekick: what if one of these trees blows down and crushes us?
Poo: what if it doesn't?

Littlehorny · 11-11-2017 12:15am

No ones ever gotten out of their life alive yet.
Or similarly - If your not living on the edge, your taking up too much room.

lazybones32 · 11-11-2017 12:16am

EPAndlee wrote: »

My favourite quotes come from Ron Swanson
'When people get too chummy with me I like to call them by the wrong name to let them know I don't really care about them'

'There's only one thing I hate more than lying:skim milk. Which is water that's lying about being milk'

"You're welcome...Lester" - April to Ron

Table Top Joe · 11-11-2017 12:17am

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”

Usually attributed to Mark Twain but apparently it mightn’t have been him......either way, always loved it and in the age of Trump never more apt

Ipso · 11-11-2017 12:18am

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain

H.L. Mencken — 'A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.'

LETHAL LADY · 11-11-2017 12:20am

'Work is the curse of the drinking classes'
Attributed to Oscar Wilde I think.

11-11-2017 12:20am

"Stop insisting on clearing your head.
Clear your fücking heart instead"

Good 'ol Charles.

jaffusmax · 11-11-2017 12:21am

As slick as a post coital penis.

-Anonymous

jonon9 · 11-11-2017 12:22am

Go home and get your fcuking shine box.

Wibbs · 11-11-2017 12:22am

Ulysses Gaze wrote:

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing" - Socrates

+1000.

"The greatest deception men from comes from their own opinions".

"Anyone who conducts his argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence, he is just using his memory". Both Leo DaVinci.

He also opined of marriage that was akin to; putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the vain hope of pulling out an eel. I'm on the fence on that one.

Though I have to say I always liked oul Leo. He lived in a time of some restriction, yet he was pretty open with his "eccentricities", not least of which his gayness(though he thought all "physical love" a bit icky), his constant questioning, flamboyant in word, deed and dress and wasn't exactly good with paying bills and often absconded with payments for work he'd only half done. Yet he was near universally liked, even loved, basically because he was great craic and kind with it. Pure sh1te poet mind you.