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Blackadder · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:58 pm Post subject: Great Quotes ...

I love using quotations. I discovered them when I did essays in school. And was sold completely.

Have you got any faves? Because I'm a reader I have hundreds.

Here's one of my top ones ...

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust!" from TS Eliot's The Wasteland.

If you haven't read it, you might find it online.

RadgeJougal · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject:

Are you trying to shore up your ruins?

Blackadder · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:00 am Post subject:

Your ridiculous little opinion has been noted.
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Blackadder · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject:

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Voltaire
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Blackadder · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:53 pm Post subject:

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. ... English professor, Ohio University
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mairead · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:11 pm Post subject:

Remember man as you pass by
As you are now, so once was I
As I am now, so you must be
Prepare ye then, to follow me.

Epitaph on a tombstone.
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Blackadder · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:18 pm Post subject:

Here lies the body of Les More

No less ... No more!

Epitaph on a different tombstone.
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mairead · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:51 pm Post subject:

When we have not that which we love,
We must love that which we have.
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Blackadder · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:40 pm Post subject:

"Let no-one without knowledge of geometry enter".
Motto over the entrance to Plato's Academy (quoted in Elias' commentary on Aristotle's Categories).

Well ... that was me buggered then!!!
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mairead · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:57 am Post subject:

me too BA.
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Blackadder · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:07 am Post subject:

"I know one thing, that I know nothing".
(Socrates, paraphrased from Plato's Apology)

Would that politicians were as honest!
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Blackadder · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:55 pm Post subject:

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
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Borderschat · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:00 pm Post subject:

Peter Reed Frae Peterhead is Deed

Volvo fer sale !!

Hecktor Brockelbank
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Reluctant Hero · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject:

"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown in to the sea"

Eric Cantona
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mairead · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:59 am Post subject:

For as long as one hundred of us remains alive. Declaration of Arbroath
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Blackadder · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 7:41 am Post subject:

"I'll be fingering through Richard the Third 'til he comes."
Tom from 'Gimme, Gimme, Gimme'. (1999)
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Jimbo · This is Ma' Life! Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 802

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill

Reluctant Hero · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:26 pm Post subject:

We are a small nation but we have a big future Wink

- Alex Salmond
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Blackadder · Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 7:19 am Post subject:

"Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it." Elwood P Dowd (Harvey)
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Jimbo · This is Ma' Life! Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 802

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. - Oscar Wilde