"Quote"..."Unquote"

[Mi-Amigo]

I love quotations.

I have used one of my favourites in my signature:

"Some people see things as they are and ask `Why?`; I dream of things that never were are ask `Why not`" said by Senator Robert Kennedy, brother of JFK.

Do you have a favourite quotation or saying?

Whether it is serious or humorous, by a famous person or a relative of friend, why not share it?

[TallTrees]

I like this quotation @Mi-Amigo  it keeps me conscious of what I do ~ (most of the time )

Omar Khayyam

"The moving finger writes:

and, having writ,

Moves on : nor all thy Piety nor Wit

Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line

Nor all thy Tears wash out

a Word of it"

[pgn]

One of my favourites: "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

And the sequitir: "You should send that in to the Reader's Digest - they've got a page for people like you!" (how many people will understand that statement in another 10 years?!)

It's part of an exchange between Ford Prefect and Arthur in "The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy", by Douglas Adams, just before they knock Arthur's house down.

[TallTrees]

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@pgn wrote:

One of my favourites: "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

And the sequitir: "You should send that in to the Reader's Digest - they've got a page for people like you!" (how many people will understand that statement in another 10 years?!)

It's part of an exchange between Ford Prefect and Arthur in "The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy", by Douglas Adams, just before they knock Arthur's house down.

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I like that "quote" by Ford Prefect ~ Ford Prefect  was a car (bet Adams Dad had one) loved by many?

Fords quote ~ "You can have any colour you want as long as it's Black" : Henry Ford

I remember photos of one in my family at some time like this~

Perfect Prefect 

[gmarkj]

I always liked the story that appeared in one of his books about the packet of biscuits and the stranger waiting for a train (for those who are unaware of this, this link has the story in full).

My other favorite is the answer to THE question - 42! 

[jonsie]

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@TallTrees wrote:

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@pgn wrote:

One of my favourites: "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

And the sequitir: "You should send that in to the Reader's Digest - they've got a page for people like you!" (how many people will understand that statement in another 10 years?!)

It's part of an exchange between Ford Prefect and Arthur in "The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy", by Douglas Adams, just before they knock Arthur's house down.

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I like that "quote" by Ford Prefect ~ Ford Prefect  was a car (bet Adams Dad had one) loved by many?

Fords quote ~ "You can have any colour you want as long as it's Black" : Henry Ford

I remember photos of one in my family at some time like this~

Perfect Prefect 

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Known by all in the trade as the 'sit-up-and-beg' model opposed to the later model.

Ford Popular 100E, my first model car  

[TallTrees]

Nice @jonsie 

I had this Ford Pop Estate in Red  I absolutely hated it 

Now we are seriously "off topic" but hey I love talking about cars ~ can't help it.

Edited to keep on topic of Quotes ~

"Why is it that all cars are women?"  ~ Because they are fussy and demanding !!   Yeh 

[Anonymous]

Hello @Cleoriff  like you something my dear dad said to me & I've always remembered 

If you can't do something, offer an alternative

This was dad saying I'd done good because a director of the firm I worked for asked me, over the phone, if I did shorthand, I said no but I can write quick (ie scribble)

There is a famous quote which goes something like:

'Art & Religion are as difficult to separate as Sport & Politics' ... however ... I can't remember or find who said it, it could possibly be Sir Kenneth Clark in his book / tv series 'Civilisation'

[Anonymous]

'If we open up a quarrel between the past & the present we shall find that we have lost the future'

Sir Winston Churchill

[Cleoriff]

"Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution"

Albert Einstein.

[pgn]

"if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck"

...and if it poos like a duck too...?