Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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#1
Your House
"You may hang your walls with tapestry instead of whitewash or paper;
or you may cover them with mosaic;
or have them frescoed by a great painter;
all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show;
it does not break our golden rule:
"HAVE NOTHING IN
YOUR HOUSES WHICH YOU DO NOT KNOW
TO BE USEFUL OR TO BE BEAUTIFUL"
(from THE BEAUTY OF LIFE 1880)
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#2
If wishing buyers did abound
and that visitors were many
besides havens for their pound
ensure they can spend a penny
[The necessities of life, 2012]
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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#3
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#4
"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?" WC Fields.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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#5
"Wine is sunlight, held together by water."
(Galileo)
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#6
'Where's my claret soaked cigars' Grandad
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#7
Grandad: "Get your own sodden cigars!"
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#8
a drink is to wet with out one.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#9
I love cooking with wine. Once I even put some in the food.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#10
A few of my favourites:
Blessed are the cracked for it is they who let in the light!
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have any film.
Once in a while you get the shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
I'm never wrong. One time, I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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#11
Dalai Lama:
"All major religous traditions carry basically the same message, - this is love, compassion and forgiveness, -
the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives".
Jeane - I like the one: ' I'm never wrong ' !
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#12
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. ~Bertrand Russell
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. ~Bob Edwards
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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#13
"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
(Winston Churchill)
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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#14
Leaders-
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand."
(Colin Powell)
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#15
colin powell is spot on with that one.
how about "if you can lay flat on the floor without needing to hold onto anything then you are not drunk"?
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#16
# 14...... supplementary......If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
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#17
"Being a President is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but stand there and take it."
(Lyndon B. Johnson)
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Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
- Posts: 1,266
#18
One for Peter Garstin:
"If it be true that good wine needs no bush,
'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue;
yet to good wine they do use good bushes,
and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues." William Shakespeare
True friends stab you in the front.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#19
I like this one too.
Friends are like stars, you might not always see them, but you know they are there.
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#20
"No words could express the beauty of it. The dreary dismal mud was baked white and pure - dazzling white. White daisies, red poppies and a blue flower, great masses of them,stretched for miles and miles. The sky a pure, dark blue and the whole air, up to a height of about forty feet, thick with white butterflies: your clothes were covered with butterflies. It was like an enchanted land, but in the place of fairies were thousands of little white crosses, marked 'Unknown British Soldier' for the most part. [I] [WILLIAM ORPEN - the war artist describes the Somme six months after the famous battle in 1917][/I]
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