Favourite quotes

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"

That's a better reflective index than some on here LOL

Same here , he said to me over 50 years ago ... remember it like yesterday LOL

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 LOL

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"

Shy kids don't get sweets.

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.

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

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"

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.

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

“You cannot reason a man out of what he never reasoned himself into.” (Jonathan Swift)