Quotes

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by XH558, Mar 24, 2019.

  1. Quality song but it was written by Neil Peart
     
  2. And wasn’t that line kind of stolen from Simon and Garfunkel ?
     
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  3. Bloody internet!
    :)
     
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  4. Nowt to do with the interweb - my nephew is a MEGA Rush fan & it's rubbed off on me, I read Neil Peart's book 'Ghost Rider' a couple of years ago - it cut me to ribbons.
    Proper quality band
     
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  5. Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal, mortal, carnal, major, minor - however you want to call it, Lord... I'm guilty.
    Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
     
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  8. "Everyone hath a plan until they get hit in the fathe" - Mike Tyson
     
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  9. A computer once beat me at chess but it was no match for me at kickboxing
     
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  10. History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

    Edward Gibbon
     
  11. “What?! Men dodging this way and that way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you! They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...”


    Allegedly the last words of General John Sedgwick while inspecting a trench and addressing his troops at the Battle of Spotsylvania during the American Civil War.
     
  12. We must have had the same mum :laughing:
     
  13. You forgot the rest of the quote. The full version is,

    “Life is like a box of chocolates: empty.”

    Vanessa Feltz.
     
    #273 Zhed46, Jan 21, 2020
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  14. Good fences make good neighbours.
     
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  15. If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them something more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the begining, not just after we got through with it.

    Lyndon B. Johnson
     
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  16. if future generations are anything like the youth of today, they deserve any scraps we leave em.
     
  17. “Life is like a box of chocolates. It doesn’t last long if you’re fat”

    Joe Lycett
     
  18. It was “written on the subway walls” in Simon and Garfunkel’s sound of silence
     
  19. In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

    Charles A. Lindbergh

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    In wildness is the preveration of the world.

    Henry David Thoreau
     
  20. "It was written in the village rolls, that if a plough-team wants an ox and that ox is lent, then the villeins and the ploughmen gotta have the Lord's consent"

    - The Ronnettes Sing Medieval Agrarian History
     
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