Great Quotes

[classic33]

if at first you don't succeed, don't make a fool of yourself trying again

If at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

 

[raleighnut]

An old mate of mine was a time-served Painter & Decorator whose specialised subject at college was Signwriting (at work too he was the signwriter)
He'd got a few 'quotes' he'd painted and framed that hung on his wall,

What it is to sit and do nothing,

Then rest afterwards.
​

Why put off til tomorrow,

What you can put off til next week
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And my favourite

Dope gets you through times of no money

Better than money gets you through times of no dope.​

 

[Levo-Lon]

Nothing is fool proof to a sufficiently talented fool

 

[Levo-Lon]

On dictator quotes oh sorry president quotes...

Mr Bush that wise ex said " the French have no word for Entrepreneurs "

 

[screenman]

"Don't do today what you do tomorrow". No idea who said it but very true .

I prefer "do not put off until tomorrow that which you can do today"

 

[Bazzer]

One I re read just before Christmas which, for reasons I'll not go into, were entirely appropriate for me.
From Terry Pratchett's "Witches Abroad"; "Where's the pleasure of being the winner, if the loser isn't alive to know they have lost."

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

John Ruskin

 

[matiz]

Before you criticize a man walk a mile in his shoes, then if you must criticize him you are a mile away and wearing his shoes.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Things can only get better!!

 

[burntoutbanger]

Not sure who said it originally but another favourite,

"Never argue with an idiot, they'll drag you down to their level then beat you with experience."

 

[Sharky]

Think it was Churchill who said of Great Btitain and the USA. "Two great nations, seperated by a common language"

 

[chriswoody]

My careers teacher at school had a great one on her wall that said:

"I wish I was a teenager again, and know everything."

The one commonly attributed to Henry Ford that I like:

"Wether you think you can or can't, you are probably right."

 

[User32269]

The legendary Bob Paisley after Liverpool won the 1977 European Cup in Rome.
“This is the second time I've beaten the Germans here... the first time was in 1944. I drove into Rome on a tank when the city was liberated.”

 

[Profpointy]

I prefer "do not put off until tomorrow that which you can do today"

I like the Churchill version "a problem put off is a problem half-solved"

This can genuinely be true on occasion

 

[Smokin Joe]

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits.