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Quotes that make you think

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:04 pm
by alf_resco
"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

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:11 pm
by CaptJohn
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

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:16 pm
by Im_not_Robbie_Blake
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” ― Desmond Tutu

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:19 pm
by TheFamilyCat
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.

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:27 pm
by Rick_Muller
“Life is about give and take, just think what a wonderful world it would be if everyone gave more than they took”

My dad

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:31 pm
by bfcjg
Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day.
Confuscious

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:31 pm
by IanMcL
I told you I was ill.

Spike Milligan self penned Epitaph

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:35 pm
by Anonymous Claret
'Its easier to fool people than convince them that they have been fooled'

Mark Twain

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:45 pm
by jtv
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

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:50 pm
by FeedTheArf
You can’t win an argument against stupid.

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2024 9:51 pm
by sjb
Bayern Munich?? You're having a laugh! Vincent Kompany.

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2024 10:27 pm
by Big Vinny K
“You can take a horse to water….
….but a pencil must be lead”
S.Laurel

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2024 10:27 pm
by Claret Toni
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2024 10:31 pm
by Poulton-le-Claret
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2024 10:40 pm
by Elbarad
You can never have too many knives.

Logan Ninefingers

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2024 10:58 pm
by Marney&Mee
A rolling pea gathers no gravy…

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2024 11:01 pm
by Mondsley
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.

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 12:08 am
by GordonvaleClaret
Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then - Bob Seger

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 12:41 am
by nonayclaret
Beer - much more than just a breakfast drink (Homer) - simpson

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 12:44 am
by nonayclaret
never argue with a fool as he is doing the same - unattributed

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 12:47 am
by nonayclaret
You only live once, but, if you do it right...once is enough - Mae West

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:01 am
by Bigvince
Sometimes the people no one imagines anything of,
do the things that no one can imagine.

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:53 am
by Stonehouse
We’re going to be the team of the 70’s .Jimmy Adamson.

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:54 am
by claretskeith
"It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret." - Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 8:49 am
by CaptJohn
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!"

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 8:53 am
by yTib
smoke me a kipper... i'll be back for breakfast.

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 9:10 am
by Swizzlestick
“Chris, Chris, don't be a f***ing d***head, f***ing hell Chris” - Sean Mark Dyche

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 9:41 am
by Claret Till I Die
"Don't wipe your arse on a broken bottle" - My dad

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 10:05 am
by eastanglianclaret
“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

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 10:36 am
by Lip
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with..

W.C.Fields.

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 10:52 am
by Lip
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money

W.C.Fields..

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 10:56 am
by Aclaret
We didn't underestimate them, they were just a lot better than we thought they would be.
Bobby Robson.

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 10:58 am
by Pickles
Bertie Bee said to Billy Shankly

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 5:08 pm
by jos
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it - George Santayana.

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 5:16 pm
by aggi
“Not every quote you read on the Internet is true.” – Abraham Lincoln

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 5:45 pm
by Terrier
We had a good team on paper, unfortunately the game is played on grass.
Brian Clough

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 6:18 pm
by Claretmisterg
“I always wanted to be happy. So I decided to be.” Neil Baldwin

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 6:20 pm
by Clarets4me
“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.

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 6:26 pm
by equinox
– “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.

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:36 pm
by Elizabeth
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

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 8:06 pm
by claretburns
Locking your door only keeps out honest people.

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 8:16 pm
by Devils_Advocate
"One giant step for man, one small leap for mankind" - Louis Armstrong, 1968

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 8:31 pm
by clarethomer
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.

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 8:46 pm
by yTib
if at first you don't succeed...
pull your foreskin over your heed.


hitler 1945

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 9:10 pm
by SSCLARET
Confusious he say a bird in the hand means s**t on the wrist.

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2024 8:35 am
by jmu1
Prejudice is the emotional commitment to ignorance- Rustein

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2024 8:46 am
by Darthlaw
"Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it." -Mike Tyson

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2024 8:53 am
by martin_p
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!

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2024 9:01 am
by Aclaret
He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
Martin Luther King Jnr.

Re: Quotes that make you think

Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2024 9:24 am
by equinox
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?