Quotable Quotes

[drron]

I think that I am the first chef to put a ball in Germaine Greer's mouth.
Heston Blumenthal,tonight on SBS.

 

[Foreigner]

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

― Ernest Hemingway

 

[Foreigner]

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference

 

[Foreigner]

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

JFK

 

[Foreigner]

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."


- Theodor Seuss Geisel

 

[Foreigner]

"Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship."

- Benjamin Franklin

 

[Deleted member]

A fool and his money are soon elected

Will Rogers

 

[amaroo]

As for our majority...one is enough.

Benjamin Disraeli

 

[Deleted member]

As for our majority...one is enough.

Benjamin Disraeli

Even if it's Craig Thompson ?

 

[Paddy55]

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert without agriculture, manufactures or commerce apparently.

Mark Twain

 

[amaroo]

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

 

[Flashback]

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

The very first PEAC course I did was called that exact title! :mrgreen:

 

[drron]

Will Rogers or Geoge Bernard Shaw-
The problem with political jokes is that they get elected.

Will Rogers-
I don't make jokes. I just watch the Government and report the facts.

Napolean Bonaparte-
Stupidity is not a handicap in politics.

Antonin Scalia,justice US Supreme Court-
Campaign promises are—by long democratic tradition—the least binding form of human commitment.

Benjamin Franklin-
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both

Joseph Stalin-
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything

Edward Dowling,editor Chicago daily News 1941-
The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it

 

[Grogan]

Alcohol, the cause of and solution to all of lifes problems - Homer Simpson

[h=1]“There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.” Doulas Adams[/h]

 

[straitman]

... and one of my favourites,

If you have integrity, nothing else matters.
If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
Alan K. Simpson

 

[oz_mark]

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

EB White.

 

[tuapekastar]

I don't know who said it, re capital punishment.

"There is no murder more premeditated than state-sanctioned murder".

 

[JohnM]

Someone who is nice to their friends but rude to waiters is not a nice person.

 

[sutho58]

"my father has as much chance of dying from accidental death as Craig Thomson has of being re-elected the member of Dobell"

sutho58 to suncorp insurance whilst trying to cancel a policy....

 

[Bundy Bear]

In the end we only regret the chances we didn't take, relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited to long to make.

Truth is, 90% of the time we intuitively know what we should do, thing is fear prevents us from taking the necessary action to do it.

A friend doesn't tell you what you want to be told; a friend tells you what you *need* to be told.

Show a little kindness everyday Being kind to others is the easiest way to forget your own problems & everyone is fighting their own battles