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Build a man a fire, and you keep him warm for a day.

Set a man on fire, and you keep him warm the rest of his life.

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who is the more foolish? the fool or the fool who follows?

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"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"

- "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", 1948

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Originally posted by Hindstein
Favourite witty retort....

Lady at party: Winston Churchill, you're drunk!
Churchill (slurring): Yes my dear, and you are ugly. But I'll be sober in the morning...

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And his other...

Lady to drunken Winston "My man you are a disgrace, If I was married to you I'd put poison in your tea"

Winston "and if I was married to you I'd drink it"

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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

George Burns (1896 - 1996)

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“Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are
doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time”
(George Bernard Shaw)

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"Chess is a sad waste of brains."

Sir Walter Scott

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"The fool learns from his own his own mistakes, the wise man learns from the fool's too..."

Could this be appliable to Chess too?

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Turnover is vanity - Profit is sanity

Anon

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Originally posted by invigorate
Turnover is vanity - Profit is sanity

Anon
That dude on 'Dragon's Den' said that tonight!

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Originally posted by ElleEffSeee
That dude on 'Dragon's Den' said that tonight!
I know - in rang loud bells with me. I'm good at vanity (shame about the my insanity)
I thought it was a great quote

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Originally posted by invigorate
I know - in rang loud bells with me. I'm good at vanity (shame about the my insanity)
I thought it was a great quote
It's not a new quote though...

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A quote I have used on several occaisons, whenever a really disturbing neighbour has moved out:

"Free at last, free at last. Thank god almighty, I´m free at last"

Originally said by one Martin Luther King

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look up steven wright. there is a list of his quotes somewhere on the net. OOhh, and ditto kurt vonnegut, my absolute living hero.
Tame

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I hope I'm not taking all the fun out of it. I am just hopeless at remembering things like jokes and quotes and my mums birthday and how fast I should be driving and whether the tag on my leather underwear goes at thefront or the back. They sort of fit both ways anyway