Great quotes

[lisap]

I just read a great quote:

'The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts'- Betram Russell

so true! Wondered what are your favourite quotes?

 

[ajrtd]

I wonder what you had in mind when you started this thread.

Groucho Marx said when asked if he believed in life after death: "I have trouble believing in life before death, the way we're going today."

 

[JBR]

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.

Old Chinese proverb appropriate to effective teaching.

 

[Sombrero]

I wondered what you meant with this thread... on a DIYnot forum...!!

My favourite:

£150 for the whole extension!!

 

[masona]

One of them, Always judge a man by the way he treats someone who is of no use to him

 

[wobs]

Realise the true nature of women. Then love them anyway.

 

[Bahco]

Don't put down to malice that which can be put down to stupidity!

 

[JBR]

Don't put down to malice that which can be put down to stupidity!

Is that aimed at Joe and AS?

 

[lisap]

I wonder what you had in mind when you started this thread.

Groucho Marx said when asked if he believed in life after death: "I have trouble believing in life before death, the way we're going today."

Yes supposewhat you are feeling does effect what quote is important at the time! I am having bad time with awful nieghbours and always doubt myself!
Brilliant quotes on here! Think I will use a few myself!

 

[lisap]

One of them, Always judge a man by the way he treats someone who is of no use to him

Very true!

 

[chainsaw_masochist]

It is said that in one rehearsal Sir Thomas Beecham was unsatisfied with the performance of a female cello soloist, and so said to her

"Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands, and all you can do is scratch it!" .

 

[JBR]

It is said that in one rehearsal Sir Thomas Beecham was unsatisfied with the performance of a female cello soloist, and so said to her

"Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands, and all you can do is scratch it!" .

That's an excellent one which I shall definitely remember.

 

[dreadnoughtheating]

“First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a communist

Martin Niemoller

Dreadnought

 

[longdogs]

Alan Sugar:

'Your cv looks good on paper but so does fish and chips'

 

[chainsaw_masochist]

That's an excellent one which I shall definitely remember.

STB is also accredited with,"You should try everything once except, perhaps, incest and morris dancing."