Quotes that make you think

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Quotes that make you think

Post by alf_resco » Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:04 pm

"It's not how you vote that matters; it's who does the counting." - Josef Stalin

"Don't keep looking back - that's not the way you're heading." - unattributed


"Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can't - you're probably right." - Henry Ford

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by CaptJohn » Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:11 pm

If you think that the bottom is falling out of your world drink real ale, you'll soon realise that it's the world falling out of your bottom! Unattributed.

Man who marry woman with small breasts will feel low down. Confuscious

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Im_not_Robbie_Blake » Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:16 pm

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” ― Desmond Tutu
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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by TheFamilyCat » Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:19 pm

If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each, his own, home again, rather than take a portion out of the common stock.

Foreword by Duncan Goodhew.

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Rick_Muller » Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:27 pm

“Life is about give and take, just think what a wonderful world it would be if everyone gave more than they took”

My dad
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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by bfcjg » Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:31 pm

Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day.
Confuscious

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by IanMcL » Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:31 pm

I told you I was ill.

Spike Milligan self penned Epitaph

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Anonymous Claret » Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:35 pm

'Its easier to fool people than convince them that they have been fooled'

Mark Twain
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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by jtv » Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:45 pm

bfcjg wrote:
Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:31 pm
Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day.
Confuscious
But man with two holes in pocket does not feel too cocky

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by FeedTheArf » Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:50 pm

You can’t win an argument against stupid.

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by sjb » Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:51 pm

Bayern Munich?? You're having a laugh! Vincent Kompany.

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Big Vinny K » Fri Aug 02, 2024 10:27 pm

“You can take a horse to water….
….but a pencil must be lead”
S.Laurel

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Claret Toni » Fri Aug 02, 2024 10:27 pm

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Poulton-le-Claret » Fri Aug 02, 2024 10:31 pm

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Elbarad » Fri Aug 02, 2024 10:40 pm

You can never have too many knives.

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Marney&Mee » Fri Aug 02, 2024 10:58 pm

A rolling pea gathers no gravy…

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Mondsley » Fri Aug 02, 2024 11:01 pm

Please don't tell my Mother I'm a politician. She thinks I play the piano in a whorehouse.

Samuel Langhorn Clemens aka Mark Twain.

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by GordonvaleClaret » Sat Aug 03, 2024 12:08 am

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then - Bob Seger

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by nonayclaret » Sat Aug 03, 2024 12:41 am

Beer - much more than just a breakfast drink (Homer) - simpson

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by nonayclaret » Sat Aug 03, 2024 12:44 am

never argue with a fool as he is doing the same - unattributed

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by nonayclaret » Sat Aug 03, 2024 12:47 am

You only live once, but, if you do it right...once is enough - Mae West

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Bigvince » Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:01 am

Sometimes the people no one imagines anything of,
do the things that no one can imagine.

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Stonehouse » Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:53 am

We’re going to be the team of the 70’s .Jimmy Adamson.

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by claretskeith » Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:54 am

"It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret." - Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by CaptJohn » Sat Aug 03, 2024 8:49 am

He has Van Gogh's ear for music. Billy Wilder

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening but I'm afraid this wasn't it. Groucho Marx

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

And one of my favourite exchanges in parliament: MP to Disraeli, "You will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease!"
Disraeli to MP, "That sir, will depend upon whether I embrace your policies or your mistress!"

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by yTib » Sat Aug 03, 2024 8:53 am

smoke me a kipper... i'll be back for breakfast.

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Swizzlestick » Sat Aug 03, 2024 9:10 am

“Chris, Chris, don't be a f***ing d***head, f***ing hell Chris” - Sean Mark Dyche

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Claret Till I Die » Sat Aug 03, 2024 9:41 am

"Don't wipe your arse on a broken bottle" - My dad

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by eastanglianclaret » Sat Aug 03, 2024 10:05 am

“I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” Etienne de Grellet

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Lip » Sat Aug 03, 2024 10:36 am

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with..

W.C.Fields.

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Lip » Sat Aug 03, 2024 10:52 am

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money

W.C.Fields..

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Aclaret » Sat Aug 03, 2024 10:56 am

We didn't underestimate them, they were just a lot better than we thought they would be.
Bobby Robson.

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Pickles » Sat Aug 03, 2024 10:58 am

Bertie Bee said to Billy Shankly

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by jos » Sat Aug 03, 2024 5:08 pm

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it - George Santayana.

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by aggi » Sat Aug 03, 2024 5:16 pm

“Not every quote you read on the Internet is true.” – Abraham Lincoln
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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Terrier » Sat Aug 03, 2024 5:45 pm

We had a good team on paper, unfortunately the game is played on grass.
Brian Clough

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Claretmisterg » Sat Aug 03, 2024 6:18 pm

“I always wanted to be happy. So I decided to be.” Neil Baldwin

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Clarets4me » Sat Aug 03, 2024 6:20 pm

“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, " The Leopard "

" The past is a foreign Country, they do things different there " - L.P. Hartley, " The Go-between "

" Everyone's got a plan .... until they get smacked in the mouth " - Mike Tyson

" You've only passed a test of basic competence, you're just starting to learn how to drive and remember the golden rule, assume everyone else on the road is a complete f*****g idiot ! " - My late Dad after I passed my test in July 1981.

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by equinox » Sat Aug 03, 2024 6:26 pm

– “Argentina won’t be at Euro 2000 because they’re from South America.”

– “Not many teams will come to Arsenal and get anything, home or away.”

– “I came to Nantes two years ago and it’s much the same today, except that it’s totally different.”

– “He can’t speak Turkey, but you can tell he’s delighted.”

– “There’ll be no siestas in Madrid tonight.”

– “England have the best fans in the world and Scotland’s fans are second-to-none.”

– “You’re not just getting international football, you’re getting world football.”

All Kevin Keegan.

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Elizabeth » Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:36 pm

FeedTheArf wrote:
Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:50 pm
You can’t win an argument against stupid.
Never argue with a stupid person because from a distance no one knows who the stupid person is

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by claretburns » Sat Aug 03, 2024 8:06 pm

Locking your door only keeps out honest people.

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Devils_Advocate » Sat Aug 03, 2024 8:16 pm

"One giant step for man, one small leap for mankind" - Louis Armstrong, 1968

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by clarethomer » Sat Aug 03, 2024 8:31 pm

Whether you can, or you can't - you're right.

You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by yTib » Sat Aug 03, 2024 8:46 pm

if at first you don't succeed...
pull your foreskin over your heed.


hitler 1945

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by SSCLARET » Sat Aug 03, 2024 9:10 pm

Confusious he say a bird in the hand means s**t on the wrist.

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by jmu1 » Sun Aug 04, 2024 8:35 am

Prejudice is the emotional commitment to ignorance- Rustein

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Darthlaw » Sun Aug 04, 2024 8:46 am

"Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it." -Mike Tyson

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by martin_p » Sun Aug 04, 2024 8:53 am

Devils_Advocate wrote:
Sat Aug 03, 2024 8:16 pm
"One giant step for man, one small leap for mankind" - Louis Armstrong, 1968
It was 1969 you lemon!
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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by Aclaret » Sun Aug 04, 2024 9:01 am

He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
Martin Luther King Jnr.

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Re: Quotes that make you think

Post by equinox » Sun Aug 04, 2024 9:24 am

Devils_Advocate wrote:
Sat Aug 03, 2024 8:16 pm
"One giant step for man, one small leap for mankind" - Louis Armstrong, 1968
Ex Southampton, bald guy?

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