My favourite Saying

[Dreadful Scathe]

A friend of mine has a tshirt with the slogan:

"Dip me in chocolate and feed me to the lesbians!"

hmm dont think ive seen that one - thought it was "throw me to the lesbians" - "feed" is much less of an innuendo isnt it?

[Bangers & Mash]

Not quite a quote, but this tickled me.

her: "I can only cook two things really well, pork chops, and turkey"
him: "Which is this?"

[Lory]

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

Plus -

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak

[Feelingpink]

If I throw a stick, will you leave?

[DavidY]

Also, "Confucius - he say, 'The man with one watch know the time - the man with two is never exactly sure.'"

This is a quote I've used for ages at work, usually about some IT system or other.

As in: "If a website has one results page, you know who won, if a website has two results pages, you're never sure."
Currently it is at least [h2g2] "definitively inaccurate" [/h2g2]

[Little Monkey]

Stop the world, I want to get off!!

Hey, that's the saying of my life!!!

Right, here's another one of my favourites: I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries an umbrella....

[Tiggerbabe]

One of my favourites - heard at a David and Lily Barker "Lead and Follow" workshop............

Get your coat - you've leveraged!

[Yliander]

If you can't be good be careful and if you can't be careful be good at it !!

Liz

or alternatively

if you can't be good don't get caught

[KatieR]

I heard this one the other day...

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them!

[Barry Shnikov]

Umming and aahing about adding to this thread, but...

pace Oliver Cromwell:

"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible: you may be wrong."

(Doesn't apply to me, of course...)

[Funky Mado]

"You have the freedom to do as I say"

"What goes around, comes around"

"Everything happens for the best"

[jockey]

"I keep my women in the best company and my horses in the worst" is a famous saying in racing attributed to roue and bon viveur of the turf Geoffery (sp?) Barnard.
For the unitiated in the world of the thoroughbred and gambling it is widely known that races are won by classier horses and the other part of the saying I dont need to explain..
My personal favourite is "from each according to his ability to each according to his need" (The Communist Manifesto)
or,
the proper action is the one that contributes to the greatest happiness of the greatest number, otherwise known as the Principle of Utility I think first espoused by James Mill the great British libertarian.
What about this, plucked from "In Praise Of Idleness" (Essays by Bertrand Russell):
..it may be safely assumed that each country which adopts Socialism will cease to be aggressively militaristic, and will be genuinely concerned only to prevent aggression on the part of others. When Socialism has become universal... the motives for large scale wars will probably no longer have sufficient force to overcome the very obvious reasons for preferring peace (pp 152-3 "The Case For Socialism")
Now wheres my Oscar Wilde section....?

[Barry Shnikov]

the proper action is the one that contributes to the greatest happiness of the greatest number, otherwise known as the Principle of Utility I think first espoused by James Mill the great British libertarian.

...would that be brother of the more famous John Stuart?

[Barry Shnikov]

What about this, plucked from "In Praise Of Idleness" (Essays by Bertrand Russell):
..it may be safely assumed that each country which adopts Socialism will cease to be aggressively militaristic, and will be genuinely concerned only to prevent aggression on the part of others. When Socialism has become universal... the motives for large scale wars will probably no longer have sufficient force to overcome the very obvious reasons for preferring peace (pp 152-3 "The Case For Socialism")

I've been struggling with this recently. If a socialist system does not include democracy, that is, votes for all, will it not inevitably become a dictatorship (or at best, an oligarchy)? And if it does, won't it inevitably become very much like - er - GB or the US?

[Yliander]

sticks and stones may break my bones,
but whips and chains excite me...

[Tiggerbabe]

- just don't tell Lou!
(although I think she's changed her avatar back again now)

[Gojive]

"I think, therefore I'm single"

[jockey]

Re earlier post: Jeremy Bentham is famous for the Utility Principle, not James Mill. Sorry.

[jockey]

I've been struggling with this recently. If a socialist system does not include democracy, that is, votes for all, will it not inevitably become a dictatorship (or at best, an oligarchy)? And if it does, won't it inevitably become very much like - er - GB or the US?

Hello.
Russell in this essay argues that the causes of war are found in the economic interests of "certain sections" of society (by this he means the ruling capitalist class) and their search for profit and lack of longterm planning; economic reconstruction (removal of the class structure, wholedsale nationalisation and central planning in the interests of the wider population) preserves peace.(pp145-156 The Case For Socialism).
The other part of Socialism is the political:
"The political part requires that the ultimate political power should be democratic" p122."Marx himself, and practically all socialists before 1918. would have agreed tothis"...;..Unless there is popular control , there can no reason to expect the State to conduct its economic enterprises except foooor its own enrichment, and therefore exploitation will take a new form. Democracy, accordingly, must be accepted as part of the definition of a Socialist regime." (pp122-3 TCFS)
There is a need for temporary dictarship through the transition but this should not be viewed as the inevitable norm, as the West has identified it since the Bolsheviksdissolved the Russian Constituent Assembly.
Bib: IN PRAISE OF IDLENESS and other Essays, Geo Allen & UNwin Ltd, London.
1935.

[bigdjiver]

Hello.
Russell in this essay argues that the causes of war are found in the economic interests of "certain sections" of society (by this he means the ruling capitalist class) and their search for profit and lack of longterm planning; economic reconstruction (removal of the class structure, wholedsale nationalisation and central planning in the interests of the wider population) preserves peace.(pp145-156 The Case For Socialism).
The other part of Socialism is the political:
"The political part requires that the ultimate political power should be democratic" p122."Marx himself, and practically all socialists before 1918. would have agreed tothis"...;..Unless there is popular control , there can no reason to expect the State to conduct its economic enterprises except foooor its own enrichment, and therefore exploitation will take a new form. Democracy, accordingly, must be accepted as part of the definition of a Socialist regime." (pp122-3 TCFS)
There is a need for temporary dictarship through the transition but this should not be viewed as the inevitable norm, as the West has identified it since the Bolsheviksdissolved the Russian Constituent Assembly.
Bib: IN PRAISE OF IDLENESS and other Essays, Geo Allen & UNwin Ltd, London.
1935.

or: "The ultimate form of competition is war." (me)