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Do you have a favourite quote?

180 replies

Fentylipgloss · 12/11/2022 11:02

This is definitely mine!

Do you have a favourite quote?
OP posts:
MrsSkylerWhite · 12/11/2022 23:01

”I would always rather be happy than dignified."
(Jane Eyre)

FeelWellEnoughToTellYou · 12/11/2022 23:04

Love many,Trust few.

DuncanBiscuits · 12/11/2022 23:04

Be the change you want to see.

Don’t let ‘perfect’ be the enemy of ‘done’.

Guests are like fish; they go off after three days.

When in doubt, do nowt.

DuncanBiscuits · 12/11/2022 23:04

Oh, and ‘Trust naefucker.’

iknowwheretheothersockgoes · 12/11/2022 23:05

TrentCrimm · 12/11/2022 11:28

Behind every great man is the cupboard or drawer that his wife needs to get into.

This is brilliant

Harrysutton · 12/11/2022 23:11

You know what that sounds like? Somebody else’s problem.

And still, I rise.

Talk to yourself like you would talk to your child.

squeakstick · 12/11/2022 23:19

Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't.

AFingerofFudge · 12/11/2022 23:22

Hearing the word "no" rescues children from the tyrant of their own desires

Discipline is the difference between what you want now and what you want most.

AFingerofFudge · 12/11/2022 23:22

*tyranny

dogmama1 · 12/11/2022 23:51

Fentylipgloss · 12/11/2022 11:02

This is definitely mine!

OH MY GOD.

I needed to see this today.

dogmama1 · 12/11/2022 23:52

" There is no I in Team "

dogmama1 · 12/11/2022 23:56

Sargass0 · 12/11/2022 16:19

If you're looking for sympathy, its in the dictionary between shit and syphillis

Hahahaha

PhDmum22 · 13/11/2022 00:00

What you think of me is none of my business.

dogmama1 · 13/11/2022 00:01

"I'd rather shit in my hands and clap."

An amusing way of saying a definite no.

Fizzadora · 13/11/2022 00:10

Get off your arse and get on with it.

Fizzadora

OrangePomander · 13/11/2022 00:16

If you ever feel like a failure, just remember that T. rexes evolved into pigeons and there is no way you can fuck up that badly.

Aaron Gillies

RelentlessForwardProgress · 13/11/2022 00:17

'I'd rather be rude than a liar'

Magdalene Berns.

For someone who'd been socialized to be a nice, compliant, pleasant woman like me, boy did Magdalene stir up shit in my life.

2023istheyear · 13/11/2022 00:18

OrangePomander · 13/11/2022 00:16

If you ever feel like a failure, just remember that T. rexes evolved into pigeons and there is no way you can fuck up that badly.

Aaron Gillies

Oh that's brilliant! I needed that today.

BIWI · 13/11/2022 00:26

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

skilpadde · 13/11/2022 00:26

"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail".
Ralph Waldo Emerson

skilpadde · 13/11/2022 00:28

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow"".

Mary Anne Radmacher

Tinkerbellflowers · 13/11/2022 00:33

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

NecklessMumster · 13/11/2022 00:34

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Fentylipgloss · 13/11/2022 00:35

I'm loving these!

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Snugglemonkey · 13/11/2022 00:35

Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future- Oscar Wilde

I like the reminder that we have no idea what it is like in other people's shoes and cannot judge.