Quotes

[oldfella]

" We can complain about Rose bushes having thorns, or we can rejoice that thorn bushes have Roses"

Abraham Lincoln

[southeast-isher]

i like that :-)

[Thomzo]

Me too.

Zoe

[bill1953]

A wise man who knows he is a wise man, is a fool, but a fool, who knows he is a fool, is a wise man.

Spike Milligan

[Graye]

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire" - Winston Churchill

Unfortunately I have no idea who he was talking about though...

Or (I'm taking the chance to put two quotes here)

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." - Henry Ford

[southeast-isher]

A wise man who knows he is a wise man, is a fool, but a fool, who knows he is a fool, is a wise man.

Spike Milligan

haha excellent :-)

[oldjerry]

.........'' If you can keep your head,when all around are losing theirs''..........don't bother coming out Saturday with us.....

[The Riff-Raff Element]

'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'

- Hamlet

[Green Aura]

My favourite quote has been in my signature for a couple of years

[baldybloke]

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, not everyone's greed. Gandi.

The Dali Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered "Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about his future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."

[baldybloke]

I do like the quote of Dorothy Parker when responding to a telegraph from her Editor asking why she hadn't submitted her column on time. It read "I've been too f****ing busy and vice a versa"

There are numerous Groucho Marx, Mae West and W.C. Fields that I think are totally brilliiant.

Yeah I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. Mae West.

A thrill a day, keeps the chill away. Mae West.

[trinder]

Scars remind us of where we've been. They don't have to dictate where we're going.
This is a quote from the show Criminal Minds.

[MuddyWitch]

I love William Morris's:

'Have only those things in your home that you know to be useful or percieve to be beautiful'

I also like: 'fighting for peace is like copulating for virginity' *(cleaned up for a family audience!)

MW

[bonniethomas06]

I live by Miss Piggy's sensible eating advice:

"Never eat more than you can lift"

But I also like the saying 'feel the fear and do it anyway' at the moment.

[Andy Hamilton]

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. W. Clement Stone