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15/05/2008, 22:43 Cathy Joined on 07/03/2006 Mostly near Bordeaux; Sometimes near Bristol Posts 1,685 Re: Favourite quotations...  now just john wrote: Raining again It didn't rain today in the Medoc.  At 9am, taking my son to school, it was 20 degrees. I hope that it got better for you later. But I found a quote: Life is like a rainbow.  You need both the sun and the rain to make its colours appear.   Cathy ----- Your children won't remember you ironing their pyjamas but they will remember you reading them a bedside story.    Report

16/05/2008, 11:31 britgirl Joined on 10/01/2008 29 Finestere Posts 44 Re: Favourite quotations... 'You can take the girl out of the countryside, but you can't take the countryside out of the girl.' For those who despair at my 'comfy ' clothes.    Report

16/05/2008, 21:40 Anton Redman Joined on 23/08/2004 Gironde Posts 1,921 Re: Favourite quotations... Anybody who has ever red lined an Alfa Romeo Guilia in top will know that Alfas had 5 speeds long before the sad over weight under engineered  Austin 1800 doored appology for a Renault 16 rip off crawled out of the Harold Wilson despaired chaos that was BLMC. Nostalgia Aint What It Used To be - quoted by Simone Signoret as graphiti from a friend's WC in Los Angeles. Let's get Science Fiction Out of the Classroom and back in the gutter where it belongs - quoted by Larry Niven ? I rember when the air was clean and sex was dirty - anonymous    Report

17/05/2008, 11:26 now just john Joined on 28/04/2005 Montignac le coq Posts 365 Re: Favourite quotations... AR the original is It’s hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. - George Burns The real fountain of youth is to have a dirty mind! - Jerry Hall    Report

19/05/2008, 9:26 now just john Joined on 28/04/2005 Montignac le coq Posts 365 Re: Favourite quotations... If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there. - Paul Kantner, Jefferson Starship    Report

20/05/2008, 18:50 now just john Joined on 28/04/2005 Montignac le coq Posts 365 Re: Favourite quotations...  "en 68 on était jeunes, rapides et beaux, aujourd'hui on est seulement... beaux !!". ''in 68 we were young, beautiful and fast, today there is only ... beautiful!". Clay Regazzoni to Jean Pierre Beltoise reportedly 1999.      Report

20/05/2008, 21:10 Cathy Joined on 07/03/2006 Mostly near Bordeaux; Sometimes near Bristol Posts 1,685 Re: Favourite quotations... I'll throw this pebble into the pond and see what the ripples are.... If you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher Cathy ----- Your children won't remember you ironing their pyjamas but they will remember you reading them a bedside story.    Report

21/05/2008, 16:06 now just john Joined on 28/04/2005 Montignac le coq Posts 365 Re: Favourite quotations... Treat a woman like a horse, and a horse like a woman, then they'll both work for you - Elizabeth Arden (she said it, not me!)    Report

21/05/2008, 18:01 Gemonimo Joined on 25/09/2007 lost in the vines in the 33 Posts 169 Re: Favourite quotations... Be the person your dog thinks you are.  Origin unknown.  Well to me, anyway!    Report

22/05/2008, 9:15 britgirl Joined on 10/01/2008 29 Finestere Posts 44 Re: Favourite quotations... The male is a domesticated animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.                                                               Jilly Cooper    Report

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