Iceni Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 [quote user="Mel"]"It's difficult to clear out the swamp when you are up to your neck in Alligators"me[/quote]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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceni Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 [quote user="Tressy"][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][/quote]I tried to find the truth by Googling and I found this post. So, Tressy, you are famous.John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceni Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 [quote user="Russethouse"]O would some Power the gift could give usTo see ourselves as others see us!Robert Burns[/quote]O wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as ithers see us!Thanks Gay, I always wondered what this meant in English.John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. Quentin Crisp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter@pons Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Never take sleeping pills and laxatives at the same time.Heard on phone in Radio 5 live.Wise words. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqui Too Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 OH, to be in England now that April ’s thereHome Thoughts from Abroad, Robert Browning (1812–89)I know its May, But it is lovely here I Love spring [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 [quote user="Jacqui Too "]OH, to be in England now that April ’s thereHome Thoughts from Abroad, Robert Browning (1812–89)I know its June, But it is lovely here I Love spring [:D][/quote]May even... [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqui Too Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 [quote user="Clair"][quote user="Jacqui Too "]OH, to be in England now that April ’s thereHome Thoughts from Abroad, Robert Browning (1812–89)I know its June, But it is lovely here I Love spring [:D][/quote]May even... [:D][/quote]Just spotted that one while you were posting[:-))] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.Blaise Pascal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickel Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 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!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 [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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 "You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."P.J. O'Rourke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchie Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 [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 [/quote]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 " ) [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 Raining again[:(] no doubt Krusty would like this one, [8-|]May was full of promisesBut she didn't keep 'em quickly enough for someAnd the crowd of doubtin' Thomases Was predictin' that the summer'd never comeBut it's comin' by gum, you can hear it come,You can hear it in the trees, You can smell it in the breezeLook around! Look around! Look around! - Carousel - Oscar Hammerstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. Abrahalm Lincoln Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer. ~ Mignon McLaughlin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britgirl Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 "Talk accompanies work: work does not accompany talk. There is a differance."No wonder I was in trouble at school and when I worked. I always got the two mixed up.Happy days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchie Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 Un élève n'est pas un vase qu'on remplit mais un feu qu'on allume..A pupil is not a vase that you fill, he is a fire that you start.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 [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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britgirl Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 'You can take the girl out of the countryside, but you can't take the countryside out of the girl.'For those who despair at my 'comfy ' clothes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted May 17, 2008 Share Posted May 17, 2008 AR the original isIt’s hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.- George BurnsThe real fountain of youth is to have a dirty mind! - Jerry Hall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there. - Paul Kantner, Jefferson Starship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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