Quotes - famous ones / ones that inspire you

Wow Ana was she from the Fens too? Oh Piffy is sexy is it. not on a stick it isn't and certainly not on a bun

Google say - piffy is sexy?!....that can't be right

My MIL used to say 'like piffy on a bun' - no idea what she meant!

My MiL used to say of someone who thought him/herself above others:

'Thinks himself everybody 'cos his mother's got a mangle' goodness knows where that came from. Also about a small object: 'That's a lovely little...... if it doesn't get any bigger'

Love her quotes and miss her dreadfully.

My father used say that someone was like 'A piffy up a stick!' never have been able to find out where this came from. He was from the Fens but none of my family know what a piffy is, anyone know?

If you're afraid of butter,use cream - Julia Child

Song Lyrics

I"m stating with the man in the mirror

I"m asking him to change his ways .

[sunshine ] still a bit left .

Gma me too, see above

How about 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep'.

One quote that I always keep in mind is......and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.....From Mother Julian of Norwich, the first woman to write a book in English. She was born about 1342 and died about 1416.

Hmm, reading it over, Whence should be where. From whence we came, to where we shall return. Obviously I need coffee.

hochiwich THANK you. I echo your thoughts. Such beautiful words.

My favourite quote is "We are starstuff". This reminds me of where all life came from and to whence we shall return in time, that we are all one, made of the same stuff, with the same worth. Everything else follows from that.

For me, Churchil was the man, he has many quotes...Just one of his quotes..

Lady Astor: "If I were married to you, I'd put poison in your coffee."
Churchil's Reply: "If I were married to you, I'd drink it."

he he he love him!

This one always comes to mind when I read about yet another Taliban atrocity, or another Westboro Baptist-type idiocy.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
US physicist (1933 - )

I also love so many Oscar Wilde quotes.

Greatnan , that's very naughty of you, I'm sure that you know what I meant!

Anyway, to slightly digress to mottos, mine is "Semper nen faecesbes, sole profundum variat" If you will excuse the spelling and cod latin.

But first of all you have to make sure that the other person wants to be done by in the same way that you do!

I have to agree with Moved "Do as you would be done by" , can't go far wrong if you follow that.

Although rather more philosophical, the Camus is good too.

"Keep Calm and Carry On" my motto too Greatnan. So very British!

One often quoted in our family was:

To thine own self be true and then it follows as the night the day
Thou canst not be false to any man.

The Bard of course - loads more of his could be listed!

I love this one by Albert Camus:
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

It has to be my mantra from 'Climbing Suilven' by Norman MacCaig

^I nod and nod to my own shadow and thrust
A mountain down and down.
My lungs say No;
But down and down this treadmill hill must go.^

and repeat endlessly until whatever has to be done has been done.

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world"

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"

Mahatma Gandhi

The Water Babies: "Do as you would be done by"

Or Oscar Wilde: "I can resist anything except temptation"

St Francis
Make me a channel of your peace etc: