Quotes

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

  1. It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.

    (from “Homage to Catalonia”, 1938)
     
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  2. Definitely one of George’s ^^
     
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  3. Rings true doesn’t it....
     
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  4. The days are longer, but the years are short.

    Gretcha Rubin
     
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  5. “I grasped her gunwale and held on as she turned bottom up, for I suddenly remembered that I could not swim.”

    Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World
     
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  6. i hope he had hold off a sheet as well ...................:eyes:
     
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  7. The best rewards in life are always worth the spadework beforehand.
    XH
     
  8. You never know when you need a sheet.......:confounded:
     
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  9. If you can't be a good example, then be a horrible warning!!

    Reap what you saw, not what you sowed!!
     
  10. Sounds like a risky hole to fill, hopefully there was a safety line attached to an immovable object not sure a sheet would have sufficed.......:thinkingface:
     
  11. It a distortion of a quote from Orwell’s work here is the original work.

    : “Those who now call themselves Conservatives are either Liberals, Fascists or the accomplices of Fascists,”

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/george-orwell-people-accomplices/
     
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  12. In sailing, a sheet is a line (rope, cable or chain) used to control the movable corner(s) (clews) of a sail, but then you knew didn't you, you naughty Sailing Scudderboy.
     
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  13. I live at the furthest point from the sea for a reason porty, there be monsters lurking under the surface. :(
     
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  14. yes and one or two "Richard the 3rds" floating as well.
     
  15. If brains were made from cotton wool.
    He would not have enough to make a tampon for a Sindy doll.
     
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  16. :confused:
     
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  17. It’s too early to be 10 sheets to the wind as well.
     
  18. no more alcohol for me now Chris, after Boxing Days regression a bottle of Dark Rum not good. Cheers.
     
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  19. Thought you were only allowed to be 3 sheets to the wind? All this sailing talk is making me sea sick on me sofa....: unamused:
     
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  20. If brains were dynamite, he wouldn’t have enough to blow his nose.
     
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