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Mr Calendar



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PostPosted: 12:29 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Inspirational and other quotes... Reply with quote
...by other I mean funny, motivational, weird, etc.

I've been doing some reading recently and remembered when the best quotes were found by studying graffiti. It apears to be a dying art so wondered what were peoples favourite quotes.

A few of mine to start with

Anon wrote:
Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel wrote:
In a man to man fight the winner is the one who puts an extra round in his magazine

Sun Tzu wrote:
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

Woody Allen wrote:
Sex is like playing Bridge: if you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand

and I recently came across this interesting one which appears to mirror the recession/slump we're in at the moment...

Labour Party manifesto, 1945 wrote:
The great inter-war slumps were not acts of God or of blind forces. They were the sure and certain result of the concentration of too much economic power in the hands of too few men. These men had only learned how to act in the interest of their own bureaucratically-run private monopolies which may be likened to totalitarian oligarchies within our democratic State. They had and they felt no responsibility to the nation.


Please feel free to add more.

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* yes, topic probably done before but thought it worthwhile updating and blowing the cobwebs off

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Skudd
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PostPosted: 12:47 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
If a jobs worth doing, get someone else to do it.

If at first you don't succeed, cheat.

You can only be blamed if you you do something.

To make a mistake is only human, to really fuck it up takes a computer.

An army can't march on an empty stomach, Oxfam causes war.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for just one day give him a net and he will flog it on ebay.
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The Original Muzza
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PostPosted: 13:24 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Quote:
If you cannot be the poet, be the poem.


Wise words, from a man who died from Auto-Erotic asphyxiation.
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nowhere.elysium
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PostPosted: 13:24 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Skudd wrote:
Give a man a fish and he will eat for just one day give him a net and he will flog it on ebay.


Or, as I like to remember it:
"Give a man a fire, and he's warm for the night. Set fire to him, and he's warm for the rest of his life."

"If in doubt, kill it with hammers." is another one to live by.

Anything by Hunter S Thompson is typically worth quoting and teaching to your grandchildren as gospel truth, too. The man was a genius of the highest order, in his observations of people, as far as I'm concerned.
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The Original Muzza
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PostPosted: 13:28 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
nowhere.elysium wrote:
Anything by Hunter S Thompson is typically worth quoting and teaching to your grandchildren as gospel truth, too. The man was a genius of the highest order, in his observations of people, as far as I'm concerned.


I personally live by the mantra "We can't stop here, it's bat country."
I feel it speaks not only of the emotional capacity of man, but also his inherent refusal to stop in bat country.
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nowhere.elysium
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PostPosted: 13:32 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Muzza wrote:
I personally live by the mantra "We can't stop here, it's bat country."
I feel it speaks not only of the emotional capacity of man, but also his inherent refusal to stop in bat country.


I tried to get a decent transfer made of that quote to go on the bike, but that I realised that the Bandit looks a little too shagged out for it to be worthwhile. Maybe when I clean it...
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The Original Muzza
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PostPosted: 13:41 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
I was going to buy an absolute battered old commuter and stick the Halfords "Powered by fairy dust" sticker on it, but now that I think of it, bat country would solicit more chuckles.
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wizzzard
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PostPosted: 13:45 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." Oscar Wilde

"Women should be obscene and not heard." Groucho Marx

"Love is the answer - but while you're waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions." Woody Allen
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Mr Calendar



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PostPosted: 13:50 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
nowhere.elysium wrote:
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"If in doubt, kill it with hammers." is another one to live by....

"If you can't fix it with a hammer then you've got an electrical problem"

- so true of most bikes I've owned
Very Happy
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Mal
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PostPosted: 13:52 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Skudd wrote:
Give a man a fish and he will eat for just one day give him a net and he will flog it on ebay.


Or the version I heard:

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for just one day, teach him how to catch fish and he'll sit in a boat all day and drink beer."
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PostPosted: 14:04 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
random graffiti wrote:
No matter how good she looks, some guy is tired of all her shit


Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if I were your wife, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.
Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.
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PostPosted: 14:05 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
" A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days "...Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe...Which might be my next Tattoo along my ribs...

"A Gentleman is someone who can play the Accordian, but doesn't "...Can't remember who said that one...
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PostPosted: 14:10 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Homer J Simpson - "Trying is the first step to failure" .

Edit:

One more then:

Charles Montgomery Burns - "I'll keep it short and sweet -- Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. ".
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PostPosted: 15:12 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
I can't believe that everyone has forgotten the single greatest man ever.

Ultimate Warrior

Instead of revising I sat down 2 hours before my programming exam and watched a few of his videos. Took some steroids, shouted to the Warrior god's above and ran to the exam. Needless to say I did shit, but on that fateful day. The Warrior was with me!

AYAYAYAYAYAYAYA YOU CAN FEEL IT DUDES, YOU CAN FEEL IT!
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Dr. DaveJPS
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PostPosted: 15:30 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
throttle you reminded me of this:

"The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price."
-- Vince Lombardi
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PostPosted: 16:27 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Give a man a fish and he'll be back tomorrow demanding another fucking fish.
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PostPosted: 17:10 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
"I don't suffer insanity...I enjoy it"

The one included here as my signature....(see below).
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PostPosted: 17:24 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
A Lady never swears................ unless it slips out and then she just puts it back in again.
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