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Post by Officer Crabtree on May 3, 2011 20:24:22 GMT 12
Any favourite quotations? NOT your signatures. "Aileron- A hinged control surface on the wing that scares the hell out of airline passengers when it moves"
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Post by Parrotfish on May 4, 2011 2:00:41 GMT 12
Not strictly a single quote or aircraft related, but an exchange that I have always enjoyed even if it is misrepresented and misquoted more often than not: Bessie Braddock to Winston Churchill: “Sir, you are very drunk.” Churchill to Braddock: “And Madam, you are very ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.” ;D Ahhh..... Bless him Cheers
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Post by philip on May 4, 2011 8:24:59 GMT 12
On receipt of a telegram from George Bernard Shaw saying "Two tickets reserved for you, first night Pygmalion. Bring a friend. If you have one.", Churchill replied with a telegram saying: "Cannot make first night. Will come to second. If you have one."
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Post by strikemaster on May 4, 2011 16:41:38 GMT 12
My favourite Churchill quote, seeing as he has become so prevalent;
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
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Post by angels15 on May 4, 2011 21:46:05 GMT 12
Churchill again
"When I warned them that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their Generals told their Prime minister and their divided cabinet-" In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken"......... some chicken...... some neck"
Speaking to the Canadian Government in relation to France
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WayneB
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Post by WayneB on May 4, 2011 23:01:10 GMT 12
"New Zealanders who emigrate to Australia raise the IQ of both countries"
Quote from Robert Muldoon.
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Post by strikemaster on May 5, 2011 1:09:54 GMT 12
I think it was average IQ, but I love that one too.
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Post by Darren Masters on May 5, 2011 1:31:36 GMT 12
Two of my favourites:
"The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be? - it is the same the angels breathe."
-Mark Twain
"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return".
-Leornardo da Vinci
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 5, 2011 2:05:09 GMT 12
A quite from The Late Show With David Letterman tonight, in the Top Ten List of Osama Bin Laden's last words:
No. 2 "I need a house full of Navy Seals like I need a hole in the head."
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Post by Darren Masters on May 5, 2011 2:38:37 GMT 12
A quite from The Late Show With David Letterman tonight, in the Top Ten List of Osama Bin Laden's last words: No. 2 "I need a house full of Navy Seals like I need a hole in the head." Like like like ;D
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Post by shorty on May 5, 2011 9:09:24 GMT 12
Not a quote but a question
What disease did cured ham actually have?
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Post by Brett on May 5, 2011 9:18:36 GMT 12
Swine flu?
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Post by stu on May 5, 2011 9:24:19 GMT 12
"There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. … Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties".
Douglas Adams - Life, The Universe and Everything.
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Post by yak2 on May 5, 2011 9:38:44 GMT 12
Shit happens.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on May 5, 2011 10:08:19 GMT 12
"The Vogon Spaceship hung in space in much the same way that bricks don't". Also Douglas Adams
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Post by shorty on May 5, 2011 10:27:01 GMT 12
"The police photographers arrived, photographed the police, and left" The Goon Show
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 5, 2011 10:28:42 GMT 12
"We were sleeping in hammocks. Hammock - or government issue curvature of the spine." Bob Hope
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Post by beagle on May 5, 2011 10:32:27 GMT 12
first quote upon joining up, If you don't eat, you don't shit, and if you don't shit, you die
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Post by errolmartyn on May 5, 2011 10:50:38 GMT 12
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
(Groucho Marx)
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Post by philip on May 5, 2011 11:14:56 GMT 12
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." George Best
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