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20/05/2008, 21:10 Cathy Joined on 07/03/2006 Mostly near Bordeaux; Sometimes near Bristol Posts 1,964 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 just john Joined on 28/04/2005 Montignac le coq Posts 383 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!) the real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, and blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday    Report

21/05/2008, 18:01 Gemonimo Joined on 25/09/2007 lost in the vines in the 33 Posts 204 Re: Favourite quotations... Be the person your dog thinks you are.  Origin unknown.  Well to me, anyway! If there's no wind, row    Report

22/05/2008, 9:15 britgirl Joined on 10/01/2008 29 Finestere Posts 50 Re: Favourite quotations... The male is a domesticated animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.                                                               Jilly Cooper    Report

22/05/2008, 9:33 just john Joined on 28/04/2005 Montignac le coq Posts 383 Re: Favourite quotations... Why do women spend years changing a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? Barbra Streisand the real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, and blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday    Report

22/05/2008, 11:45 britgirl Joined on 10/01/2008 29 Finestere Posts 50 Re: Favourite quotations... God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.Reinhold Niebuhr, in a sermon in 1943 US Protestant theologian (1892 - 1971)    Report

23/05/2008, 10:13 just john Joined on 28/04/2005 Montignac le coq Posts 383 Re: Favourite quotations... "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book; inside of a dog, it's very dark" Groucho Marx the real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, and blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday    Report

24/05/2008, 15:03 Renaud Joined on 23/08/2004 Barnes / Mirambeau Posts 628 Re: Favourite quotations... "Things got so bad that we almost had to do something" Roger Walters in the Pink Floyd documentary last night. Gus www.relax-in-france.com    Report

24/05/2008, 18:31 Frenchie Joined on 31/05/2007 Niort, 2 Sèvres,79 Posts 4,515 Re: Favourite quotations... "Le mariage est la principale cause de divorce." Oscar Wilde In the waters of life, you row your boat into the strongest tide that you can find.........    Report

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