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22/04/2008, 18:58 Compo Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 731 Re: Favourite quotations...   "Il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l’ours avant de l’avoir tué"      Report

22/04/2008, 21:06 vervialle Joined on 30/04/2005 Nr Eymoutiers/Essex Posts 272 Re: Favourite quotations... An imaculate house is the sign of a wasted life    Report

22/04/2008, 21:13 TWINKLE Joined on 11/03/2006 Tarn 81 Posts 3,930 Re: Favourite quotations... "What does not kill us makes us stronger" - Nietzsche    Report

22/04/2008, 21:27 Frenchie Joined on 31/05/2007 Niort, 2 Sèvres,79 Posts 4,644 Re: Favourite quotations... Once you ve been down the farm for too long, you don't smell the sh*t anymore !! ( A friend of mine ........  ) I believe in miracles ..........    Report

22/04/2008, 21:44 Tressy Joined on 26/02/2008 Charente Maritime Posts 211 Re: Favourite quotations...  FurryKnickers wrote: "just because you are wearing gardening trousers does not mean you have to stay in the garden" (Seamus Logan) You've just caused WW3 to break out here. Mr T insists the correct version of this quote is; "just because you are wearing boots caked in mud, does not mean you have to stay in the garden". I doubt we'll ever know the truth.        Report

22/04/2008, 21:49 Compo Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 731 Re: Favourite quotations... "It's difficult to clear out the swamp when you are up to your neck in Alligators" me    Report

22/04/2008, 21:51 Compo Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 731 Re: Favourite quotations... And my successful businessman son tells me he has always remembered me telling him this at the start of his career. Trouble is, I don't know where I got it from... "Everything comes to he who goes out and gets what everyone else is waiting for..."    Report

22/04/2008, 22:20 Christine Animal Joined on 14/05/2005 Deux-Sèvres Posts 4,374 Re: Favourite quotations... A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill again.     animalaidsaintaubin.monsite.orange.fr/ Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful    Report

22/04/2008, 23:07 Cynthia Shagpiece Joined on 07/02/2005 Posts 804 Re: Favourite quotations...  Tressy wrote:  FurryKnickers wrote: "just because you are wearing gardening trousers does not mean you have to stay in the garden" (Seamus Logan) You've just caused WW3 to break out here. Mr T insists the correct version of this quote is; "just because you are wearing boots caked in mud, does not mean you have to stay in the garden". I doubt we'll ever know the truth.     I am pretty sure that Seamus Logan's quote is correct! He first said it to me in 1974 after planting his lavender bush , and that was a good long time ago. Who is that Tressy anyway? She seems very cheeky! "if he wrapped his balls in bacon even an Alsation would not find them"  Mrs O'Rourke of Tipperary.   © Cynthia x    Report

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