Favourite quotes
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Topic: Favourite quotes
Posted By: lofty evans
Subject: Favourite quotes
Date Posted: 20 February 2023 at 11:25pm
Come on people I get videos of inspiring stuff sent to me by Scarlet supporters.....can you share words that inspire you ....just asking ...
I will give a short one from my boyhood hero Carl Sagan " We are all made of starstuff ".
Superb.
------------- In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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Posted By: GPR - Rochester
Date Posted: 21 February 2023 at 7:28am
Well Lofty ever since I went to see Dafydd Iwan in a barn somewhere in deepest Nantgaredig probably 40 years ago I have always had a huge positive reaction when I hear Yma o hyd. It always has and always will move me.
As a side note the warm up act that night in Nantgaredig was a very young comic called Nigel Owen - mam fach happy days.
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Posted By: ladram
Date Posted: 21 February 2023 at 9:32am
One of my favourite's is from Alun Wyn Bevan he was out walking when he came across someone and went to speak Welsh to him the bloke said i'm sorry but i can understand Welsh but can't speak it Alun replied "yes i've got a dog at home exactly the same"
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Posted By: RR1972
Date Posted: 21 February 2023 at 9:44am
“ God is not on the side of the big battalions but on the side of the best shots” voltaire
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Posted By: dr_martinov
Date Posted: 21 February 2023 at 10:13am
"Looks like the cows have come home to roost" - Frank Drebin.
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Posted By: RR1972
Date Posted: 21 February 2023 at 10:36am
dr_martinov wrote:
"Looks like the cows have come home to roost" - Frank Drebin. | 
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Posted By: RR1972
Date Posted: 21 February 2023 at 10:38am
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars” oscar wilde
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Posted By: lofty evans
Date Posted: 21 February 2023 at 1:13pm
Forgive me for this but this poem by Charles bukowski...is my personal motivational poem..saved me in so many ways...just thought I'd share.
Your life is your life don't let it be clubbed into dank submission. Be on the watch There are ways out. There is a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness. Be on the watch. The gods will offer you chances. Know them. Take them. You can't beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. And the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. Your life is your life. Know it while you have it. You are marvellous the gods wait to delight in you.
------------- In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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Posted By: aber-fan
Date Posted: 21 February 2023 at 1:33pm
lofty evans wrote:
Forgive me for this but this poem by Charles bukowski...is my personal motivational poem..saved me in so many ways...just thought I'd share.
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Interesting topic, Lofty - have you read any of Bukowski's novels? I liked 'Post Office' and 'Ham on Rye'.
In response to your request - I have many favourites, but for now I'll offer these:
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"I can resist anything except temptation" - Oscar Wilde
and for the Physicists amongst us:
"Housekeeping is nothing more than a losing encounter with entropy." Claire Oshetsky
------------- “You cannot reason a man out of what he never reasoned himself into.” (Jonathan Swift)
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Posted By: lofty evans
Date Posted: 21 February 2023 at 1:40pm
aber-fan wrote:
lofty evans wrote:
Forgive me for this but this poem by Charles bukowski...is my personal motivational poem..saved me in so many ways...just thought I'd share.
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Interesting topic, Lofty - have you read any of Bukowski's novels? I liked 'Post Office' and 'Ham on Rye'.
In response to your request - I have many favourites, but for now I'll offer these:
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"I can resist anything except temptation" - Oscar Wilde
and for the Physicists amongst us:
"Housekeeping is nothing more than a losing encounter with entropy." Claire Oshetsky |
Yes I have, I love his work tbh Sir.
------------- In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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Posted By: lofty evans
Date Posted: 21 February 2023 at 2:03pm
" When you know within yourself there is something you want to do and I believe that all of us were born with a purpose, that all of us have something we are supposed to do. And all of us have some goodness within us and that goodness gives us a responsibility to manifest our greatness. Not only is it possible for you to have your dream, but it's necessary, it's necessary for you to have it, that you work on it , that you develop yourself, that you go for what is yours in the Universe".
Les Brown.
------------- In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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Posted By: RR1972
Date Posted: 21 February 2023 at 2:20pm
“Stop throwing those bloody spears at me” micheal caine zulu
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Posted By: lofty evans
Date Posted: 21 February 2023 at 3:12pm
African proverb
" If there's no enemy within, then the enemy outside can do you no harm"
Actually love this.
------------- In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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Posted By: dr_martinov
Date Posted: 22 February 2023 at 8:01am
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Groucho Marx.
I still think this is brilliant and very appropriate for much of our society, unfortunately. I think about it most days listening to politicians, bosses, anyone on TV really.
Plus, in terms of physics quotes, how about Oppenheimer "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds".
Brutal. Although I think was originally a Hindu saying? I doubt about the same topic.
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Posted By: Oracle
Date Posted: 22 February 2023 at 10:40am
All mushrooms are edible but some you can only eat once
Terry Pratchett
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Posted By: SA14
Date Posted: 22 February 2023 at 11:24am
Posted By: Eastern outpost
Date Posted: 22 February 2023 at 12:40pm
SA14 wrote:
[beep] the WRU | Seeing as you brought them up, an unattributed comment when dealing with such obstacles and purveyors of ineptitude and inaction, someone I knew used to say, “You know? I can’t quite make up my mind. Are you a cretinous moron or a moronous cretin”.
------------- In a world where you can be anything – Be Kind.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 22 February 2023 at 6:57pm
Inside every 70 year old is a 20 year old who's thinking - "What the hell just happened?" Terry Prattchet.
Also, always loved this one: "... and as for your grandma, she shouldn't have mouthed off like that!" Homer the vigilante.
And just about anything by George Carlin ... but I particularly like this one: "Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music."
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 22 February 2023 at 7:02pm
In case I forget - Bill Hicks ...
"Hey buddy, I didn't like what you said. I'm a Christian."
"So forgive me then."
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Posted By: lofty evans
Date Posted: 02 March 2023 at 12:49pm
" If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything"
Mark Twain
------------- In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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Posted By: lofty evans
Date Posted: 02 March 2023 at 1:49pm
" We are driven by our need to please others, driven by your fear, driven by your past.
Maybe it's time to free yourself and the way to do is decide, decide consciously what you want your life to be about. Decide consciously what is the purpose of your life"
Tony Robbins
------------- In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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Posted By: lofty evans
Date Posted: 09 March 2023 at 12:36pm
" The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies, was made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff"
Carl Sagan.
My childhood hero, when he spoke his voice was magical, his thoughts, his imagination and his capture and beauty of words inspired me in ways no other has been able to. As a child who was bored with school he was the teacher that captivated my mind with statistics and facts that were delivered so effortlessly and with an eloquence that still stirs my soul.
His books opened my mind, his words and his humanity and his beliefs in the real fragility of our World still resonate deeply within me.
Often you read who would you like to sit down for 10 minutes on a park bench and talk to, it would be Carl Sagan.... NASA, Astronomer, Scientist, astrophysicist, astrobiology, author.
------------- In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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Posted By: Oracle
Date Posted: 09 March 2023 at 12:45pm
He couldn't pronounce his He's. Sounded like Kermit when he said uman instead of Human ...but one of the iconic series of all time , right up there with the Ascent of Man and great sound tracks from vangelis
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 09 March 2023 at 12:47pm
lofty evans wrote:
" The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies, was made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff"
Carl Sagan.
My childhood hero, when he spoke his voice was magical, his thoughts, his imagination and his capture and beauty of words inspired me in ways no other has been able to. As a child who was bored with school he was the teacher that captivated my mind with statistics and facts that were delivered so effortlessly and with an eloquence that still stirs my soul.
His books opened my mind, his words and his humanity and his beliefs in the real fragility of our World still resonate deeply within me.
Often you read who would you like to sit down for 10 minutes on a park bench and talk to, it would be Carl Sagan.... NASA, Astronomer, Scientist, astrophysicist, astrobiology, author.
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Ditto 
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Posted By: aber-fan
Date Posted: 09 March 2023 at 1:07pm
lofty evans wrote:
" The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies, was made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff"
Carl Sagan.
My childhood hero, when he spoke his voice was magical, his thoughts, his imagination and his capture and beauty of words inspired me in ways no other has been able to. As a child who was bored with school he was the teacher that captivated my mind with statistics and facts that were delivered so effortlessly and with an eloquence that still stirs my soul.
His books opened my mind, his words and his humanity and his beliefs in the real fragility of our World still resonate deeply within me.
Often you read who would you like to sit down for 10 minutes on a park bench and talk to, it would be Carl Sagan.... NASA, Astronomer, Scientist, astrophysicist, astrobiology, author.
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Beautiful quote. Another great one often attributed to the incomparable Isaac Newton is:
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
This is, though, a borrowing - apparently - from earlier metaphors. Newton wasn't wrong to use it, though!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants" rel="nofollow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants
------------- “You cannot reason a man out of what he never reasoned himself into.” (Jonathan Swift)
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Posted By: lofty evans
Date Posted: 09 March 2023 at 1:12pm
Oracle wrote:
He couldn't pronounce his He's. Sounded like Kermit when he said uman instead of Human ...but one of the iconic series of all time , right up there with the Ascent of Man and great sound tracks from vangelis |
On another note that music was from Vangelis " Heaven and Hell " album, which introduced the magic of Vangelis. The original Cosmos series had a profound effect on me tbh...the whole package.
------------- In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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Posted By: lofty evans
Date Posted: 09 March 2023 at 1:13pm
aber-fan wrote:
lofty evans wrote:
" The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies, was made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff"
Carl Sagan.
My childhood hero, when he spoke his voice was magical, his thoughts, his imagination and his capture and beauty of words inspired me in ways no other has been able to. As a child who was bored with school he was the teacher that captivated my mind with statistics and facts that were delivered so effortlessly and with an eloquence that still stirs my soul.
His books opened my mind, his words and his humanity and his beliefs in the real fragility of our World still resonate deeply within me.
Often you read who would you like to sit down for 10 minutes on a park bench and talk to, it would be Carl Sagan.... NASA, Astronomer, Scientist, astrophysicist, astrobiology, author.
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Beautiful quote. Another great one often attributed to the incomparable Isaac Newton is:
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
This is, though, a borrowing - apparently - from earlier metaphors. Newton wasn't wrong to use it, though!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants" rel="nofollow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants |
On the shoulders of Giants.....is truly epic....Great words.
------------- In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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Posted By: lofty evans
Date Posted: 09 March 2023 at 1:14pm
totallybiasedscarlet wrote:
Inside every 70 year old is a 20 year old who's thinking - "What the hell just happened?" Terry Prattchet.
Also, always loved this one: "... and as for your grandma, she shouldn't have mouthed off like that!" Homer the vigilante.
And just about anything by George Carlin ... but I particularly like this one: "Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music."
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Great and thankyou.
------------- In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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Posted By: Fscarlet
Date Posted: 09 March 2023 at 1:22pm
Shy kids don't get sweets.
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Posted By: lofty evans
Date Posted: 09 March 2023 at 1:23pm
Fscarlet wrote:
Shy kids don't get sweets. |
True.
------------- In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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Posted By: lofty evans
Date Posted: 09 March 2023 at 1:39pm
Forgive me for this.
" Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you have ever heard of, every human who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter, every forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, 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".
Just part of what is written about the Pale blue dot.
Carl Sagan.
------------- In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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Posted By: aber-fan
Date Posted: 10 March 2023 at 1:51pm
And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it! https://www.azquotes.com/author/10823-Friedrich_Nietzsche" rel="nofollow - https://www.azquotes.com/quote/521978 Nietzsche (One of my all-time favourites.)
------------- “You cannot reason a man out of what he never reasoned himself into.” (Jonathan Swift)
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Posted By: Oracle
Date Posted: 10 March 2023 at 1:55pm
If you can't kick a man when he's down , you may not get the chance when he gets up..
My father who played scrum half and then a referee 
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Posted By: lofty evans
Date Posted: 10 March 2023 at 2:08pm
Oracle wrote:
If you can't kick a man when he's down , you may not get the chance when he gets up..
My father who played scrum half and then a referee  |
This is seared in my brain your oneness.
------------- In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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Posted By: Oracle
Date Posted: 10 March 2023 at 2:09pm
Same here , he said to me over 50 years ago ... remember it like yesterday
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Posted By: tim d
Date Posted: 10 March 2023 at 4:54pm
The earth has an albido of 0.29
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Posted By: Oracle
Date Posted: 10 March 2023 at 6:20pm
That's a better reflective index than some on here
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Posted By: lofty evans
Date Posted: 12 March 2023 at 11:33pm
" I do not fear death, I've been dead for billions and billions of years, before I was born and not had the slightest inconvenience from it "
Mark Twain.
Goodnight.
------------- In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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Posted By: lofty evans
Date Posted: 02 April 2023 at 1:20pm
You work 8 hours to live 4 You work 6 days to enjoy 1 You work 8 hours to have 15 minutes to eat You work 8 hours to sleep 5 You work all year to have 2 weeks holiday You work all your life to retire in old age And contemplate only your last breaths
Eventually you realise that life is nothing but a parody of yourself practicing your own oblivion
We have become accustomed to material and social slavery that we no longer see the chains.
Life is a short journey, live it ! collect memories not materials.
------------- In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"
"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
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Posted By: Kentexile
Date Posted: 02 April 2023 at 4:59pm
The customer isn’t always right but think long and hard before you try to prove they are wrong
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