FabSwingers.com forum: Quotes to live by

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

What are some of your favourite quotes?

It doesn't matter if you don't know where they are from, or if you are using a bastardised version of the original, but things that you occasionally say to yourself to help you along the way.

One of my favourites is by novelist Kurt Vonnegut and is something like "I tell you we are put on this earth to bugger about and don't let anyone tell you different" - it's all about not taking everything so seriously, and just enjoying yourself. Another similar one (no idea where from) is "You don't stop playing games because you get old, you get old because you stop playing games" - so true!

Anyone offering "Live, Laugh, Love" or similar will be taken outside and summarily executed.

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By *iddlesticksMan
over a year ago

My nan’s spare room.

Don’t be a c*nt.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Everybody dies but not everybody lives

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

Life is short, then you die.

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By *U1966Man
over a year ago

Devon

My word is my bond

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"What are some of your favourite quotes?

It doesn't matter if you don't know where they are from, or if you are using a bastardised version of the original, but things that you occasionally say to yourself to help you along the way.

Anyone offering "Live, Laugh, Love" or similar will be taken outside and summarily executed."

That one about getting old and playing has the same effect on me as "live, laugh,love" does on you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Can only fuck with the cock you got.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Old you get the better you was

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don’t trouble trouble’till trouble troubles you

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

Give a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

If you trust in yourself and believe in your dreams and follow your star...you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

Both Terry Pratchett

I did also get my husband a cushion for Father's Day some years ago with a photo of our children on it and the quote 'every day's a gift'. He called me a troll

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it.

The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!"

Prof. Brian Cox.

I love this quote

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By *lectrumMan
over a year ago

south shields

God loves a tryer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Despite how open, peaceful and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you, as deeply as they’ve met themselves.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"we are all born sick, but commanded to be well" -

Christopher Hitchens

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Get busy living, or get busy dieing"

"Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want"

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

"This too shall pass". I think it's from a myth or fable or something but it helps sometimes. The good and the bad will all pass eventually.

LvM

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Give a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

If you trust in yourself and believe in your dreams and follow your star...you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

Both Terry Pratchett

I did also get my husband a cushion for Father's Day some years ago with a photo of our children on it and the quote 'every day's a gift'. He called me a troll

I recognised these

And the cushion was clearly trolling

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

Carl Sagan

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By *issYeuxBleusWoman
over a year ago

My boudoir - S Wales

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"What are some of your favourite quotes?

It doesn't matter if you don't know where they are from, or if you are using a bastardised version of the original, but things that you occasionally say to yourself to help you along the way.

Anyone offering "Live, Laugh, Love" or similar will be taken outside and summarily executed.

That one about getting old and playing has the same effect on me as "live, laugh,love" does on you

Oh no! At least I never saw it on anyones wall in a curly font...

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By *iddlesticksMan
over a year ago

My nan’s spare room.

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. "

A bit like me trying to flirt with you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A cold toilet is bad, a warm toilet seat is worse

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

You can't win anything with kids...

I did not have sexual relations with that Woman...

I drove to Durham as my Wife and I were poorly, I drove to Barnard Castle to test my eyesight...

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

"What are some of your favourite quotes?

It doesn't matter if you don't know where they are from, or if you are using a bastardised version of the original, but things that you occasionally say to yourself to help you along the way.

Anyone offering "Live, Laugh, Love" or similar will be taken outside and summarily executed.

That one about getting old and playing has the same effect on me as "live, laugh,love" does on you

Oh no! At least I never saw it on anyones wall in a curly font..."

The day is yet young

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When the roots are deep, there is no reason to fear the wind…

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Happiness is a dry fart.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Despite how open, peaceful and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you, as deeply as they’ve met themselves. "

Love this

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

‘Fuck this shit’

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What are some of your favourite quotes?

It doesn't matter if you don't know where they are from, or if you are using a bastardised version of the original, but things that you occasionally say to yourself to help you along the way.

Anyone offering "Live, Laugh, Love" or similar will be taken outside and summarily executed."

Die Cry Hate?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You kiss my cheek only to finger my arse.

The snake arrives, walking as if it’s human.

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Before you judge a man walk a mile in his shoes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You kiss my cheek only to finger my arse.

The snake arrives, walking as if it’s human. "

You’re on fire this morning

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

‘There’s no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes. So go out and buy a sexy wee raincoat and live a little’

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Before you judge a man walk a mile in his shoes"

Or a woman

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By *orkshireDrifterMan
over a year ago

Nafferton, nr Driffield.

"I can resist anything but temptation", Oscar Wilde.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"if we do discover a theory of everything, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason, for then we would truly know the mind of god".

Stephen Hawking.

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

Shaun Ryder from the Happy Mondays

"My advice to kids today is you may be 20 now but you'll wake up next week and you'll be f**king 52, mate, so go and enjoy it. It's that f**king quick."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Whatever people think of you is none of your business.

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By *etcplCouple
over a year ago

Gapping Fanny

Be nice until its time to not be nice.

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

"I did also get my husband a cushion for Father's Day some years ago with a photo of our children on it and the quote 'every day's a gift'. He called me a troll

I recognised these

And the cushion was clearly trolling

If you can't troll your own husband what is the point of marrying him??

Actually I want to do it again. Possibly with a picture of us looking tired and the kids looking manic with a quote of 'living our best life'. If you can think of a better quote let me know

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By *iddlesticksMan
over a year ago

My nan’s spare room.

"I did also get my husband a cushion for Father's Day some years ago with a photo of our children on it and the quote 'every day's a gift'. He called me a troll

I recognised these

And the cushion was clearly trolling

If you can't troll your own husband what is the point of marrying him??

Actually I want to do it again. Possibly with a picture of us looking tired and the kids looking manic with a quote of 'living our best life'. If you can think of a better quote let me know

I’m confused. Was the cushion doing the trolling. You should report it.

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By *riar BelisseWoman
over a year ago

On Holibobs

One life. Live it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love the sound a deadline makes as it goes wooshing by

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

" you have a right to be offended by something I say, but just because you are offended by it that doesn't mean you are right".

Ricky Gervais.

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By *ntrigued32Couple
over a year ago

Nottingham

"One life. Live it"

So this!!!!

Jo.Xx

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I love the sound a deadline makes as it goes wooshing by"

Love Douglas Adams quotes

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By *isfits behaving badlyCouple
over a year ago

Coventry

You can't change the wind but you can adjust the sail.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I love the sound a deadline makes as it goes wooshing by

Love Douglas Adams quotes

wondered if anyone would spot that

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By *agerMorganMan
over a year ago

Canvey Island

2 of my personal favourites;

“Everyone wants to see you do good. Just not better than them. Remember that”

“Ever loved someone so much you’d do anything for them? Well make that someone yourself & do whatever the hell you want”

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By *ncemoreroundthesunCouple
over a year ago

on the move

That which is given without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Is life not hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves.

~ Nietzsche

Don't just define yourself by the things you're against.

~ Tim Minchin

You get born, you keep your head down and then you die, if you're lucky.

~ Eddie from bottom

And many more

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Sussex

If you feel as if you're going through hell, KEEP GOING!

Winston Churchill

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By *ryitonce6978Man
over a year ago

Hinckley

Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

Promote what you love instead of dragging what you hate.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

" would Jesus Christ have been a pervert, if he had a crisp packet on his head?"

Liam Gallagher.

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

"You are your own refuge. There is no other. You cannot save another, you can only save yourself.” Guillaume Musso

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Don’t be a c*nt.

This is my favourite of yours

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just because you lost me as a friend, it doesn't mean you've gained me as an enemy. I still want to see you eat, just not at my table.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"" would Jesus Christ have been a pervert, if he had a crisp packet on his head?"

Liam Gallagher."

Deep

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"

... "yea but now that fucker is missing one eye too"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ambition is a dream with a v8 engine.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What Other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business,

you will be offended for the rest of your life

-Deepak Chopra-

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've never found one that doesn't make me feel a little bleugh if I'm honest. Seems that's rare!

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By *he_Wite_NiteMan
over a year ago

Usually Dundee and around

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

"Just because you lost me as a friend, it doesn't mean you've gained me as an enemy. I still want to see you eat, just not at my table. "

Oh I do like that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

“Never tell the audience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.”

Harry Houdini

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By *lym4realCouple
over a year ago

plymouth

Gotta love living....As dyings a bitch ..or i feel sorry for those who don't drink as when they wake up that's the best there going to feel all day ..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

""I can resist anything but temptation", Oscar Wilde."

Oh hellooooo

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When life gives you lemons fuck'em and make lemonade

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By *lym4realCouple
over a year ago

plymouth

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life ....

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By *each_PittWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

Better to have loved and lost than be stuck with the cunt forever.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I did also get my husband a cushion for Father's Day some years ago with a photo of our children on it and the quote 'every day's a gift'. He called me a troll

I recognised these

And the cushion was clearly trolling

If you can't troll your own husband what is the point of marrying him??

Actually I want to do it again. Possibly with a picture of us looking tired and the kids looking manic with a quote of 'living our best life'. If you can think of a better quote let me know

Seriously - you should market that design

… I’ll have three manic kids cushions please x

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By *lym4realCouple
over a year ago

plymouth

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”

“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”

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By *BootyfulDayWoman
over a year ago

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Mines is always Ferris Bueller 'Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

" Your Heart is free...have the Courage to follow it "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A wise woman once said fuck this shit & she lived happily ever after

I have that on a cup - it makes my tea taste better

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life ...."

More Pratchett

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If you're going through hell, keep going"

I have something similar tattooed on my ribs.

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

"You are a ghost, driving a meat-coated skeleton, made from stardust, riding a rock, hurtling through space. Fear nothing."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

People that can't trust, can't be trusted

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By *igJFromSAMan
over a year ago

Woking

Talk softly, and carry a big stick

Money talks, but all mine seems to say is goodbye.

Never put your dick anywhere you wouldn't put your fingers.

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Sussex

It is better to have people think of you as a fool for keeping silent, than to open your mouth and remove any doubt.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

Can't remember who said it.

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By *ooBulMan
over a year ago

Missin’ Yo’ Kissin’

"Life is like one giant shit sandwhich. It's up to you to make the best filling possible. Or one you're happy to live with .....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don’t burn bridges just loosen the bolts

… I like that. But sometimes that bridge just needs to burn xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

""You are a ghost, driving a meat-coated skeleton, made from stardust, riding a rock, hurtling through space. Fear nothing.""

excuse me a minute while I nip off for an existential crisis

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By *ooBulMan
over a year ago

Missin’ Yo’ Kissin’

Should have said that's my own...

The quote I like comes from Les Brown (motivational speaker):-

" To get something you never had, you have to do you never did!"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life ...."

Makes me think of the kids film Chicken Run when she quotes about feeling her life flash before your eyes - now that’s inspirational lol x

… I like that quote on your profile!

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By *ustamanMan
over a year ago

weymouth

How wrong can it go

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”"

and there it is

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By *ooBulMan
over a year ago

Missin’ Yo’ Kissin’

"To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did!"

It does help if you put "something" in or it makes no sense. Sorry, brain fart... Had a massive sneezing fit - now Im dead wheezy??????

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By *xhib12Man
over a year ago

Blyth

Never let the bastards grind you down.

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By *ang bang bangity bangCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

"Give a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

If you trust in yourself and believe in your dreams and follow your star...you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

Both Terry Pratchett

I did also get my husband a cushion for Father's Day some years ago with a photo of our children on it and the quote 'every day's a gift'. He called me a troll

I could live most of my life based on Pratchett quotes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Don’t burn bridges just loosen the bolts

… I like that. But sometimes that bridge just needs to burn xx"

Sometimes you gotta burn a few bridges to stop the crazies from following you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

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By *ty31Man
over a year ago

NW London

A friend in need is a pest- Arthur Daley

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By *ang bang bangity bangCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be more your style

The Key to success is sincerity. If you can fake that you've got it made

My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people's (wilde)

The ingle biggest problem with communications is the illusion they have taken place (Shaw)

Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do (Pratchett)

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By *akie32Man
over a year ago

winchester

carpe diem

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never eat yellow snow

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By *akie32Man
over a year ago

winchester

for those who dont know latin, it means pluck the day, meaning live today as tommorow happenes whatever you do

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Treat others how you want to be treated.

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By *ea monkeyMan
over a year ago

Manchester (he/him)

"Treat others how you want to be treated. "

I try to live by this

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By *ea monkeyMan
over a year ago

Manchester (he/him)

Never trust a fart after 19 miles. (Running truism)

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, then chances are; it’s a duck! (Bastardisation of Occam’s razor)

If you seek happiness, long will it evade you but if you busy yourself with other things then happiness will quietly come and sit on your shoulder.

Before you judge a man you should walk a mile in his shoes, because then you’ll be a mile away and you’ll have his shoes!

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By *eedave83Man
over a year ago

Aberdeen

"Everybody dies but not everybody lives

"
. You have to live or die trying

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't judge a book by it's cover.

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By *ty31Man
over a year ago

NW London

"Everybody dies but not everybody lives

. You have to live or die trying "

And don't take life too seriously, nobody has ever survived it

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By *inger_SnapWoman
over a year ago

Hampshire/Dorset

Those that mind don't matter, those that matter don't mind.

Don't sweat the small stuff

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Never trust a fart after 19 miles. (Running truism)

Haha, that reminded me of reading a running quote this morning which is what made me start the thread (although I then neglected to use it...).

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

Carl Sagan"

I love this quote - and the rest of it that is missing here, incredibly powerful words.

Another that is applicable to far more than just climbing is from Edward Whymper

Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.

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By *eyond PurityCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

"It's only kinky the first time"

Said by someone on here

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Give a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

If you trust in yourself and believe in your dreams and follow your star...you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

Both Terry Pratchett

I did also get my husband a cushion for Father's Day some years ago with a photo of our children on it and the quote 'every day's a gift'. He called me a troll

I could live most of my life based on Pratchett quotes"

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"When the roots are deep, there is no reason to fear the wind…"

Quite like this, surprised I haven't heard it before

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Just because you lost me as a friend, it doesn't mean you've gained me as an enemy. I still want to see you eat, just not at my table. "

Loads of variations on this:

* For X to win, doesn't mean Y has to lose

* Equity not Equality

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"You kiss my cheek only to finger my arse.

The snake arrives, walking as if it’s human. "

Despite knowing where these are from I can't help but read them in the voice of the greek landlord from the League of Gentlemen...

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Two of my favourites

Have an adventure - me

Just get on with it - my boss

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fuck this shit is one of my faves

Also treat others as you would want to be treated

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

No matter how bad today seems, you could have your face buried in a pair of boobs tomorrow.

Magneto, 2021.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never hit a man when he's down.

Kicking him makes more sense.

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By *uffolkClareClactonDaveCouple
over a year ago

Felixstowe/Clacton-on-Sea

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

'Ignorance is bliss'

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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago

Durham

Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.

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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago

Durham

Don't worry about things you have no control over.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

If I can, I will.

It's always the 'haves' that lecture the 'have-nots'.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Don't worry about things you have no control over."

Sponsored by TENA

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fortune favours the bold

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

After every storm, there is a rainbow. If you have eyes, you will find it. If you have wisdom, you will create it. If you have love for yourself and others, you won’t need it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Sting is a cunt" - Paul Weller.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never eat yellow snow! Always worked for me

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By *limBobStretchedPantsMan
over a year ago

Newcastle

From my grandfather.

“If you think you have shit yourself DONT check. Because a shitty arse is a lot easier to explain than a shitty finger”

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By *ean counterMan
over a year ago

Market Harborough/ Kettering

It's nice to be important but important to be nice

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

After I told my Nan that my teacher said there's no such word as 'can't'

'Tell yer teacher you can't pick a spell out of yer arse while wearing boxing gloves'

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail Again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett.

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and, in between, he does what he wants to do." Bob Dylan.

"In the midst of an eternal winter, I found that within me there lay an invincible summer." Albert Camus

"Hell is other people" Jean-Paul Sartre

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By *ambozaMan
over a year ago

kilburn park

To thine own self be true..

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By *hubster2016Man
over a year ago

Worrying is like a rocking chair,

It gives you something to do

But doesn’t get you anywhere!

Van Wilder

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By *smCouple
over a year ago

Liskeard

""It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

Theodore Roosevelt"

Love this as the first time I heard it was a Brene Brown talk

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"After I told my Nan that my teacher said there's no such word as 'can't'

'Tell yer teacher you can't pick a spell out of yer arse while wearing boxing gloves'"

I was in a class full of cants when I was in the east end

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

""Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail Again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett.

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and, in between, he does what he wants to do." Bob Dylan.

"In the midst of an eternal winter, I found that within me there lay an invincible summer." Albert Camus

"Hell is other people" Jean-Paul Sartre"

What did Sartre mean by that?

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Worrying is like a rocking chair,

It gives you something to do

But doesn’t get you anywhere!

Van Wilder "

That's why huskies are sled reigns are useful.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

""Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail Again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett.

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and, in between, he does what he wants to do." Bob Dylan.

"In the midst of an eternal winter, I found that within me there lay an invincible summer." Albert Camus

"Hell is other people" Jean-Paul Sartre

What did Sartre mean by that?"

Neighbours from hell.

D*unks at a party making a show of themselves.

Crying babies on a 24 hour flight

Dad dancing, when you're the child.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

“Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things, he’s got it all.” : James Brown

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By *ongLeggyLadyWoman
over a year ago

Bucks

Life’s a dick, when it’s hard, FUCK IT

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By *ead kennedysCouple
over a year ago

louth

This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. Either it goes or I do - Oscar Wilde

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

""Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail Again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett.

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and, in between, he does what he wants to do." Bob Dylan.

"In the midst of an eternal winter, I found that within me there lay an invincible summer." Albert Camus

"Hell is other people" Jean-Paul Sartre

What did Sartre mean by that?"

Not what is commonly understood. He was referring to the infernal Catch-22 of both despising the judgements of other people while simultaneously needing affirmation from them as we ultimately only exist in relation to others. Unless, you're a solipsist of course but that's another story...

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

"This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. Either it goes or I do - Oscar Wilde "

"Experience is the name we give to our mistakes." Another Wilde gem.

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"Give a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

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By *hunderace...Man
over a year ago

Dudley

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks, there is no passion to be found in playing small and settling for a life less than the one your capable of living... Nelson Mandela

He with a why can bear almost any how... Friedrich Nietzsche

Be stronger than your excuses... Bruce Lee

I like to ride into a corner fast, see God and then back off... Kevin Schwantz

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. Either it goes or I do - Oscar Wilde

"Experience is the name we give to our mistakes." Another Wilde gem."

funny name for a child!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We are all in the gutter, but some of us have a kebab.

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By *ickyxxx69Man
over a year ago

Bedford

If its wet drink it

And

You cant put shit back up a donkey

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Do unto others, before they do unto you.

Then fuck off, before the police get there.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My mantras.

1) Be the best

Strive to be better. My quote to me.

2) Its not how hard you hit.

It's how hard you can get hit and keep moving forwards.

Roxy to his son. (Yeah that snobby little brat that proper needed a slap innit).

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By *it-chrissyTV/TS
over a year ago

sw. london

we're all made of stars x

take that out of your mouth, you don't know where its been

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By *ensual-dominant-passionMan
over a year ago

sheffield

Only two things matter…. Getting paid and getting laid!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

To live by a river is divine,

To live by a quote is asinine.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Before you judge a man walk a mile in his shoes

Or a woman

Assuming same size feet, otherwise be cautious of blistering.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig."

Bricktop

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us have a kebab.

I laughed way too much at that

How about …

Faint heart never won fair lady x

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Not now, Fuck off!

Ian Collins on talk sport Radio, when he forgot that his mic was still left on.

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By *panddaCouple
over a year ago

West Mids

"What are some of your favourite quotes?

It doesn't matter if you don't know where they are from, or if you are using a bastardised version of the original, but things that you occasionally say to yourself to help you along the way.

Anyone offering "Live, Laugh, Love" or similar will be taken outside and summarily executed."

The "stop playing games" one.

So true.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never place a bet on anything that speaks.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

""Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail Again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett.

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and, in between, he does what he wants to do." Bob Dylan.

"In the midst of an eternal winter, I found that within me there lay an invincible summer." Albert Camus

"Hell is other people" Jean-Paul Sartre

What did Sartre mean by that?

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills

If you are only going to try, don’t fly airplanes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It is not to have conquered but to have fought well"

Try and live my life by that and

"Fuck bitches, get money"

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