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[quote user="Mel"]

"It's difficult to clear out the swamp when you are up to your neck in Alligators"

me

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When you're up to your neck in alligators, it's easy to forget that the initial objective was to drain the swamp.

Not me.

John

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[quote user="FurryKnickers "]"just because you are wearing gardening trousers does not mean you have to stay in the garden" (Seamus Logan)[/quote]

You've just caused WW3 to break out here. Mr T insists the correct version of this quote is;

"just because you are wearing boots caked in mud, does not mean you have to stay in the garden".

I doubt we'll ever know the truth.[:D]

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I tried to find the truth by Googling and I found this post. So, Tressy, you are famous.

John

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[quote user="Russethouse"]

O would some Power the gift could give us

To see ourselves as others see us!

Robert Burns

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O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!

Thanks Gay, I always wondered what this meant in English.

John

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[quote user="Jacqui Too "]

OH, to be in England now that April ’s there

Home Thoughts from Abroad, Robert Browning (1812–89)

I know its June, But it is lovely here I Love spring [:D]

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May even... [:D]

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[quote user="Clair"][quote user="Jacqui Too "]

OH, to be in England now that April ’s there

Home Thoughts from Abroad, Robert Browning (1812–89)

I know its June, But it is lovely here I Love spring [:D]

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May even... [:D]
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Just spotted that one while you were posting[:-))]

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I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

~ Gilda Radner
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The great cellist Pablo Casals, when aged just over 80 proposed marriage to an attractive 20 year old pupil. She accepted and on his wedding day his doctors advised - "but Mr Casals if you try and consummate this marriage the consequences could be fatal".

To which he replied

"well if she dies ... she dies!" 

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[quote user="now just john "]I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

~ Gilda Radner[/quote]

Very poignant, John.

Nous ne pouvons pas tous faire de grandes choses, mais nous pouvons faire des petites choses avec beaucoup d'amour.

We cannot all do big things but we can do little things with a lot of love.

Mother Teresa in 1979, Nobel Peace Prize

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[quote user="Christine Animal"]

Here's one for Frenchie.

"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird."   Paul McCartney

 

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Merci Christine ! [;-)]

"Les talons hauts ont été inventés par une femme qu'on embrassait toujours sur le front."
Marcel Achard

( High heeled shoes were invented by a woman who was always kissed on the forehead " ) [:)]

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Raining again[:(] no doubt Krusty would like this one, [8-|]

May was full of promises
But she didn't keep 'em quickly enough for some
And the crowd of doubtin' Thomases
Was predictin' that the summer'd never come
But it's comin' by gum, you can hear it come,
You can hear it in the trees, You can smell it in the breeze
Look around! Look around! Look around!                        -   Carousel - Oscar Hammerstein

 

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[quote user="now just john "]

Raining again[:(] [/quote]

It didn't rain today in the Medoc.  At 9am, taking my son to school, it was 20 degrees.

I hope that it got better for you later.

But I found a quote:

Life is like a rainbow.  You need both the sun and the rain to make its colours appear.

 

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Anybody who has ever red lined an Alfa Romeo Guilia in top will know that Alfas had 5 speeds long before the sad over weight under engineered  Austin 1800 doored appology for a Renault 16 rip off crawled out of the Harold Wilson despaired chaos that was BLMC.

Nostalgia Aint What It Used To be - quoted by Simone Signoret as graphiti from a friend's WC in Los Angeles.

Let's get Science Fiction Out of the Classroom and back in the gutter where it belongs - quoted by Larry Niven ?

I rember when the air was clean and sex was dirty - anonymous

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