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A Quote a Day........

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  • 21-11-2013 11:52pm
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    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭


    Insert favourite quotes here.

    One of my favourites is by Mark Twain:

    "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."


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    fruvai
    Registered Users Posts: 836 ✭✭✭fruvai


    “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.” - Thomas Pynchon


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    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


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


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    Up The Bare Stairs
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭Up The Bare Stairs


    “Walk on air against your better judgement” - Seamus Heaney


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    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    "The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read".

    Oscar Wilde


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    #6
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    "If I had a good quote, I'd be wearing it" - Bob Dylan


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    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better".

    Samuel Beckett


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    ush
    Registered Users Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭ush


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    Insert favourite quotes here.

    "Hold still. Just sit there. I see you very clear all of a sudden. You're Mr Death himself."


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    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    ush wrote: »
    "Hold still. Just sit there. I see you very clear all of a sudden. You're Mr Death himself."

    Good old Updike.


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    johnayo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭johnayo


    If you can't be with the one you love, love the one your with.

    Stephen Stills.


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    #11
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    "All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing." - Philip Roth


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    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users Posts: 18,581 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    Common sense is instinct.
    Enough of it is genius.

    George Bernard Shaw.


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    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users Posts: 18,581 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    But who prays for Satan?
    Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

    Mark Twain.


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    brooke 2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    'Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
    And say my glory was I had such friends.'

    - W.B. Yeats


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    Einhard
    Registered Users Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
    From this day to the ending of the world,
    But we in it shall be remember'd;
    We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
    For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
    Shall be my brother.

    Henry V, Act 4, Scene III

    Always sends a shiver down my spine.


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    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    "Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious".

    Peter Ustinov


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    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    "We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English".

    Winston Churchill


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    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway


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    fruvai
    Registered Users Posts: 836 ✭✭✭fruvai


    "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce


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    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    "I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong" - Bertrand Russell


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    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    "It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody" - Brendan Behan


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    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    History doesn't repeat itself, it just rhymes a bit.
    Mark Twain


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    johnROSS
    Registered Users Posts: 209 ✭✭johnROSS


    "People who boast about their IQ are losers" - Stephen Hawking


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    dcmm
    Registered Users Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭dcmm


    What is this life if full of care we have no time to stand and stare
    No time to stand beneath the boughs
    And stare as long as sheep or cows.


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    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    "A hangover is the wrath of grapes" - Dorothy Parker


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    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”

    ― William W. Purkey


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    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    "I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included" - Bernard Manning


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    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    "For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice."
    - T.S. Eliot


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    johnROSS
    Registered Users Posts: 209 ✭✭johnROSS


    “the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

    From Jack Kerouac's "On The Road"


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    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users Posts: 35,625 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    '' a heart on fire need not be quenched if we embrace the spark who set the blaze''
    Erinio Kensango


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    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users Posts: 18,581 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover
    everybody's face but their own.

    Swift.


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