Morning all! Favourite quotes.

[AmexRuislip]

Going into London yesterday, when the tube driver announced that we were travelling on a 'semi fast' train!

 

[Beach Hut]

If Margaret Thatcher is re-elected as prime minister on Thursday, I warn you.

I warn you that you will have pain–when healing and relief depend upon payment.

I warn you that you will have ignorance–when talents are untended and wits are wasted, when learning is a privilege and not a right.

I warn you that you will have poverty–when pensions slip and benefits are whittled away by a government that won’t pay in an economy that can’t pay.

I warn you that you will be cold–when fuel charges are used as a tax system that the rich don’t notice and the poor can’t afford.

I warn you that you must not expect work–when many cannot spend, more will not be able to earn. When they don’t earn, they don’t spend. When they don’t spend, work dies.

I warn you not to go into the streets alone after dark or into the streets in large crowds of protest in the light.

I warn you that you will be quiet–when the curfew of fear and the gibbet of unemployment make you obedient.

I warn you that you will have defence of a sort–with a risk and at a price that passes all understanding.

I warn you that you will be home-bound–when fares and transport bills kill leisure and lock you up.

I warn you that you will borrow less–when credit, loans, mortgages and easy payments are refused to people on your melting income.

If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday–

– I warn you not to be ordinary

– I warn you not to be young

– I warn you not to fall ill

– I warn you not to get old.

Neil Kinnock 1983

Which proved very nicely how he mis-understood his own party voters who chose not to vote for him.

 

[vegster]

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.


Margaret Thatcher

Conversely, Thatcher started to struggle to stay in office once she ran out of ( Our ) state assets to sell !

 

[maltaseagull]

Conversely, Thatcher started to struggle to stay in office once she ran out of ( Our ) state assets to sell !

That took longer than I expected to turn political

 

[Hampster Gull]

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.

WA

 

[Official Old Man]

Being in retail most of my life I live by a quote from a manager I worked for around 30 years ago. When working out how much to sell an item for he said "You can put a price down easily but it is very hard to put a price up". Thanks Antonio.

 

[WildWood]

'If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain'.
Do you know which 'philosopher' said that?

Dolly Parton.

And people say she's just a big pair of tits...........

 

[goldstone68]

"It would be a grand day if it wasn't raining".

Quoted by my Grandad

 

[aberllefenni]

" Give a man a fire and he will be warm for a day, set fire to him and he will be warm for the rest of his life " Terry Pratchett.

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink himself stupid." Les Barker

 

[Nibble]

My favourite quote of late, among many is:

If you don't take the time to create the life you want you will eventually be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don't want.

 

[goldstone68]

"If your saying, Fruit is the food of love, would you please stop throwing the skins out of the bedroom window, because they are choking my chickens"!.

Quoted by my Landlord

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

'If life were a game of cards, I say that some ******* was cheating' Spike Milligan

 

[BN9 BHA]

Always enjoyed a Brian Clough quote.

 

[Tarpon]

The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed

William Gibson

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

A great Churchillian put down. "I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly"

That's one of my favourites.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

'Infamy! Infamy!' - Kenneth Williams, Carry On Cleo

 

[Tarpon]

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception

Groucho Marx

 

[Tarpon]

Evolution doesn't even know we're here, and it won't notice if we go. The stars look down; that's all they do.

Hitchens.

 

[happypig]

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”

Anthony Burgess

You can if you've written it with a pencil.

 

[Tarpon]

After all there is no God - only the void. So it's all about love, fun & happiness while we are here. Everything else is propaganda.

Unattributed.