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Deep Thoughts - (With apologies to Douglas Adams)

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  1. shiney

    shiney President, Grumpy Old Men's Club Staff Member

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    Let's have your thoughts and favourite sayings. :blue thumb:

    I suppose I could start it off with the signature in my posts.

    Age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit.
    Robert A. Heinlein


    'Just In Case' is a good motto. Plan things, or do things, in advance. It saves you from setting yourself up for those 'kick yourself situations'!
    Shiney
     
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    • rosebay

      rosebay budding naturalistic gardener!

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      "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see" (Henry D. Thoreau)
       
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      • LyndaG

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        "Don't look back, you're not going that way" love the saying, but can't seem to take it on board for my own life, lol x
         
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        • shiney

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          Criticism:
          Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticise them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.
          Jack Handey
           
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          • Val..

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            Great idea for a thread shiney: :thumbsup:

            Free speech

            I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

            Voltaire
             
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            • philomel

              philomel Pottering in SW France

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              It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are too difficult. Seneca

              Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin

              Those two are related :)

              Another that I like is: A mind too active is no mind at all. Theodore Roethke
              Reminding us to turn off the constant inner chattering....
               
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                1. Don’t argue with idiots because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. —Greg King
                2. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein
                 
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                  Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
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                    "Always put a dead Badger on a headwound" - Mrs Moss.

                    "Mondays always been Rat day in our house" - Geldorf.

                    "Don't get Crushed or Mashed." - Sid the Manager.

                    "Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way... well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't!" - Michael Fish.
                     
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                      TV Awards: "Most Inaccurate Weather Forecast".

                      Presenter: "We don't have time to read out all 9,000 nominations." :heehee:
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                      • kindredspirit

                        kindredspirit Gardening around a big Puddle. :)

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                        I suppose a deep sea diver has deep thoughts, especially if he's running out of air. :) :)
                         
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                          Difference in Perspective:

                          Two stonecutters were asked what they were doing.

                          The first said, "I'm cutting this stone into blocks".

                          The second said, "I'm on a team that's building a cathedral".

                          Apochryphal
                           
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                            And on the same lines:
                            We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
                            George Bernard Shaw
                             
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                              "You Sir are drunk", "and you Madam are ugly, but at least in the morning I shall be sober"

                              Sir Winston Churchill :biggrin:
                               
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