What is your favourite quotation?
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reloader54
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Einstein, Newton and Pascal were playing hide and seek. Einstein’s covers his eyes and starts to count to ten. Pascal runs off and hides. Newton draws a one meter square on the ground in front of Einstein and stands on the ground in the middle of the square. When Ernestine reaches 10 he opens his eyes. He sees Newton and says to Newton “ I have found you , you are it. Newton smiles and says “You didn’t find me you found a Newton over a square meter. You found Pascal”
Freeforester
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'Alcohol may be the road to nowhere, but at least it's the scenic route'
paul o'
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Christ now the pressure is building 
So many good ones:
Rules are for the observance of fools and the guidance of wise men
It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When
you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay
too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you
bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The
common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a
lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well
to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will
have enough to pay for something better.
We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
and my favourite of all .... well it’s not just a quote, more of a speech. Perhaps one of the best I have ever heard!!
Rules are for the observance of fools and the guidance of wise men
It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When
you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay
too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you
bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The
common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a
lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well
to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will
have enough to pay for something better.
We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
and my favourite of all .... well it’s not just a quote, more of a speech. Perhaps one of the best I have ever heard!!
foxdropper
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He wasn’t the messiah ,just a very ,very naughty boy .
john Cleese
john Cleese
Three of my favourites, each very different:
"Laws... like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but let wasps and hornets break through."
Jonathan Swift.
"Always keep a cock among your hens - hens like having it off as much as we do."
John Seymour.
"Subsistence hunters are amongst the happiest, most respectful and knowledgeable people that I have met."
Guy Grieve.
"Laws... like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but let wasps and hornets break through."
Jonathan Swift.
"Always keep a cock among your hens - hens like having it off as much as we do."
John Seymour.
"Subsistence hunters are amongst the happiest, most respectful and knowledgeable people that I have met."
Guy Grieve.
Freeforester
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Going 'cryptique' ici:
g1B;2a?
Ga
A French thinker is inviting his friend (no slouch himself) to dine: top line reads (the division line representing 'sur la table' (on the table') g J'ai (g) un (1)grand baie(B); tu (2) appetite?(a?) - I have here a large berry, are you hungry? To which the respondent replied beneath: J'ai grand(G) appetit (a).:I have a great appetite
Can't recall whether it was between Rousseau and Voltaire, or Pascal, no matter.
Before you condemn me, for this and other sundry previous recent posts,
here's a nice one from Froude:
....yet we may be sitting in judgement, both of us, on matters of which we know nothing.
Another apposite piece, from Izaak Walton, 'The Compleat Angler', in 1676!
No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, the statesman in preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us.
g1B;2a?
Ga
A French thinker is inviting his friend (no slouch himself) to dine: top line reads (the division line representing 'sur la table' (on the table') g J'ai (g) un (1)grand baie(B); tu (2) appetite?(a?) - I have here a large berry, are you hungry? To which the respondent replied beneath: J'ai grand(G) appetit (a).:I have a great appetite
Can't recall whether it was between Rousseau and Voltaire, or Pascal, no matter.
Before you condemn me, for this and other sundry previous recent posts,
here's a nice one from Froude:....yet we may be sitting in judgement, both of us, on matters of which we know nothing.
Another apposite piece, from Izaak Walton, 'The Compleat Angler', in 1676!
No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, the statesman in preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us.
NoIDeer
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There are 10 types of people that understand binary, those that do and those that don't.
ABWD
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alberta boy
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Classic
Freeforester
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Of a lady imbiber:
At parties,I only have one drink,
Two at the absolute most;
-Three and I'm under the table,
Four and I'm under the host!
At parties,I only have one drink,
Two at the absolute most;
-Three and I'm under the table,
Four and I'm under the host!
Freeforester
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Oops! Sorry:
Edit: the French equation top line at #233 should read g1B:a2?
"On the table I have a large berry: shall we dine together?" (a2? 'a deux'?) , remembered too late to change, like as if anyone's bothered except moi!
At least I'll sleep
Edit: the French equation top line at #233 should read g1B:a2?
"On the table I have a large berry: shall we dine together?" (a2? 'a deux'?) , remembered too late to change, like as if anyone's bothered except moi!
At least I'll sleep
'Nothing revs like a rental'
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