Famous quotes

Skating on thin ice can get you into hot water
Franklin P Jones

I don't know about 'famous', but one I heard recently that resonated for me was:

"It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty."
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

HHDL has a twitter feed, @dalailama, which never fails to bring a little bit of peace and serenity to my day.

Yes, I like that, Mary. I'll check out the twitter feed, too. We all need a bit of inspiration and encouragement at times.

One of the Mitford sisters ( I think) talking to a drunk Winston Churchill
"SIR YOU ARE VERY DRUNK"
Churchill replied
"MADAM YOU ARE UGLY, BUT IN THE MORNING I SHALL BE SOBER"

Or my own personal business philosophy motto:

LIFE IS LIKE A S--T SANDWICH, THE MORE BREAD YOU GET ,THE LESS S--T YOU EAT.

That Churchill one is a personal favourite

"Men are not prisoners of fate but only prisoners of their own minds" -Franklin D. Roosevelt

The mind is like a parachute, it only works when it's open.
Frank Zappa

I'd rather hear a fat girl fart than a pretty boy sing.Frank Zappa

This is one I adopted as my own a good few years ago.
It's got me out of no end of trouble.

"I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't ." - originally by Lucille Ball

My all-time favourite is:

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like no-one's watching.
Sing like no-one's listening.
Live like there's no tomorrow.