Favourite quotes or statements?

Duke Leonal Felmet

I may as well start with one that will rile people. I heavily paraphrase here:

"In America, the people look at a rich man and say 'I want to be that guy...', in Ireland they look and him and say 'I want to kill that guy...'"

- Paul Hewson



Irish culture, beautifully summed up.

Latchy

Heard this from somebody on the radio today who saw this sign in a Dublin shop window .

'' Ear's pierced while you wait '' .

Anon

Dotrel

Duke Leonal Felmet wrote: »

I may as well start with one that will rile people. I heavily paraphrase here:

"In America, the people look at a rich man and say 'I want to be that guy...', in Ireland they look and him and say 'I want to kill that guy...'"

- Paul Hewson



Irish culture, beautifully summed up.

- Duke Leonal Felmet, 2011

Chuck Stone

Did you have to start with such a negative self-loathing-Irish one?



Different strokes for different folks.

Everything in this - saw it on broadsheet the other day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBkw2vtW6AE

starbelgrade

Duke Leonal Felmet wrote: »

I may as well start with one that will rile people. I heavily paraphrase here:

"In America, the people look at a rich man and say 'I want to be that guy...', in Ireland they look and him and say 'I want to kill that guy...'"

- Paul Hewson



Irish culture, beautifully summed up.

Irish culture beautifully summed up?

All that quote really shows us is how much Bono likes talking through his hole.

doomed

"I never forget a face but in your case I'd be willing to make an exception"

Groucho

Snakeblood

Duke Leonal Felmet wrote: »

I may as well start with one that will rile people. I heavily paraphrase here:

"In America, the people look at a rich man and say 'I want to be that guy...', in Ireland they look and him and say 'I don't care if he's rich, he's really ****ing annoying.'"

- Paul Hewson meant to say

I think it scans better as above.

I like the one below. It just seems so psycho.

“If the Gods could build a ladder to the heavens, I'd climb up that ladder and drop an elbow on the world.” — Cactus Jack

minidazzler

If you can keep your head, when everyone around you is losing theirs, you probably don't understand the situation.

You ain't drunk til you can't lie on the floor without holding on.

Latchy

'' Here's a toast to our wifes and girfriends ...may they never meet '' .

Groucho

AnamGlas

"If ya can't lift her, don't shift her"

And of course...

"Go hard or go home"

mrbango

stay hungry and stay foolish:cool:

The Internet Explorer

" F*ck all the self hating Paddies in the house, for they, are self hating Paddies, who hate, who self and who Paddie "

The Internet Explorer
November 2011

earpiece

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend, inside a dog, it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

castletownman

"Life is like a bar of chocolate. Ya never know what one your mammy's gonna bring back from the shop"

Eddie Durkan, Hardy Bucks

"Sex addiction is a real disease with medicine and doctors and ****"

Chazz Michael Michaels

coonecb1

"Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion"

- Spike Milligan

MungBean

"All art is quite useless."

Oscar Wilde



One of the few quotes that has stuck in my head.

moy83

He had a flute on him that could beat an ass out of a quarry

Rocky_Dennis

"How do you know he was Spanish? Or a sailor? He couldve been a
Pakistani postman if you were that drunk"

Dessie Curley

"That was A1 Sharon"

George Burgess

"You should have shoved one of you tits in his mouth"

Yvonne Burgess

HazDanz

"Indifference is not a beginning, it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten."

- Elie Wiesel

FinnLizzy

"My mam would always say, children should neither be seen or heard, and preferably belong to another family"

Ardal O'Hanlon

Skid

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever"

Mahatma Ghandi

Miss Olenska

"You don't want girls to think that you suck dick at fúcking pussy!" - Seth, Superbad




"If experience really mattered, Man would never have walked on the Moon."

"You can't polish a turd - but you CAN roll it in glitter"

Duke Leonal Felmet

A nation of begrudgers. I don't listen to much of what Boooonooo says, but he hit the nail on the head there.

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

- Douglas Adams

Latchy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSgqrrWyF0Y

^ '' was you ever bit by a dead bee"? ^

Lauren Bacall

Daith

"In the end what We regret most are the chances We never took"

or

"Tommy Bowe is a ride"

filthymcnasty

"All generalizations are false, including this one."
Mark Twain

phasers

'bitches ain't **** but hoes and tricks'

- Ghandi

Thrill

If you cant beat em, hide.

The King of Moo

"Man himself, at the very least, is music, a brave theme that
makes music also of its vast accompaniment, its matrix of storms and stars. Man
himself in his degree is eternally a beauty in the eternal form of things. It is very good
to have been man. And so we may go forward together with laughter in our hearts,
and peace, thankful for the past, and for our own courage. For we shall make after all
a fair conclusion to this brief music that is man." - Last and First Men, Olaf Stapledon.

I'm also very fond of the oft-quoted final line of A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens (spoiler!), but it really only works in context:

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." - A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens.

And there's my sig, the opening line from "Tomorrow Never Knows" by The Beatles, which I'm forced to credit to John Lennon.
I just think it's a great piece of general advice.

Thrill

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"



Groucho Marx

Lady Chatterton

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

barbarians

"Experience is simply the name we give to our former mistakes"

Oscar Wilde


"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."

Will Rogers

Lady Chatterton

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen".

Winston Churchill

housetypeb

I don't know whether the world is run by smart men who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain

WoollyRedHat

housetypeb wrote: »

I don't know whether the world is run by smart men who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain

True today as it was back then.

Kxiii

I thought i begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

Spike Milligan.

texidub

I've had a wonderful time.... This wasn't it.
--Groucho

Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement.
--Mark Twain

AdamD

" I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you. "

From Taken!

Johro

Humans... When they're very young, they get pushed around in buggies.
When they're very old, they get pushed around in wheelchairs.
In between, they just get pushed around.

Vizzy

A diamond is a lump of coal that finished the job !

Arnold Layne

Keep a clear head, and always carry a lightbulb

Bob Dylan

Lady Chatterton

"I can resist anything but temptation"
Oscar Wilde

“One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.”
Oscar Wilde

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better".
Samuel Beckett

JessicaRabbit

Latchy wrote: »

Heard this from somebody on the radio today who saw this sign in a Dublin shop window .

'' Ear's pierced while you wait '' .

Anon

Priceless.

JessicaRabbit

Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do but it wont get you anywhere.

JessicaRabbit

Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.

Bipolar Joe

If you can't say anything nice, you're probably surrounded by assholes.

Gilldog

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." - Jean de la Bruyere



"I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's got God on his side." - Bill Hicks

Johro

JessicaRabbit wrote: »

Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.

So is farting in lifts.

PeefsPixie

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a hell of heaven, a heaven of hell

One of the best things anyones ever said to me