Great Quotes

[Pandyboy]

When there's always biscuts in the tin, where's the fun in biscuts!

Gary Men Behaving Badly

[Soulmanure]

"The great question . . . which I have not been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research . . . is `What does a woman want?'"

-Freud

[celsis]

Human intellect at birth is rather like a tabula rasa, a pure potentiality that is realised through education - Ibn Sina.

Oh, very controversial! Where do we all stand on nature v nurture?

Personally, the tabula rasa theory holds a lot of water for me, but I cannot write off what seems like innate behaviour, i.e. everything before object permanence!

[nev coss]

a woman drove me to drink and I didn't have the decency to thank her

anyone who hates children and animals can't be all that bad

I cook with wine , sometimes I even add it to the food

if I had my life to live over, I'd live over a saloon

I never drink water it could be habit forming

WC Fields

[nicwing]

a woman drove me to drink and I didn't have the decency to thank her

anyone who hates children and animals can't be all that bad

I cook with wine , sometimes I even add it to the food

if I had my life to live over, I'd live over a saloon

I never drink water it could be habit forming

WC Fields

Not forgetting my favourite: "What bounder stole the cork from my lunch"

[ChrisMClark]

A couple along the same lines:

"If the Third World War is fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth will be fought with bows and arrows" Lord Louis Mountbatten

"I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth - rocks!" Einstein

A little morbid perhaps, but worth mentioning.

[Gordonbcb]

How true is this one?

"By the time a man realises that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he is wrong"

Charles Wadsworth

[cbob]

"Call me, Ishmael"

[Simon-JG-hr]

"Do you want proof that two wrongs do make a right?

The Duke and Duchess of York producing Princess Eugenie..."

Another one of my own I'm afraid...

[Soulmanure]

"Call me, Ishmael"

In the middle of this great book, and here is my favorite quote from it thus far:

"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own."