What is your favourite quote?

Gui   Thursday, April 21, 2005, 08:18 GMT
Some Galician quotes are quite humourous in their wisdom:

A quen Deus non dá fillos, o demo cobre de sobriños.
To whom God doesn't give children, the devil saturates with nephews.

Deus dá codias a quen non tén dentes.
God gives crusts to those who don’t have teeth.

Cando hai fame non hai pan duro.
When hungry, no hard bread

Morra o gato, morra farto.
If the cat has to die, let it die full.

Non se collen as troitas coas pernas enxoitas.
No trout is caught with dry legs

Se unha muller che di que te tires pola ventá, o que tes que facer é percurar a que esteña mais baixa.
If the wife tells you to jump out a window, all you can do is to search for the lowest one.

A capar aprende-se cortando colons.
Castration is learnt by cutting balls.
greg   Thursday, April 21, 2005, 08:21 GMT
Gui,

"Se unha muller che di que te tires pola ventá, o que tes que facer é percurar a que esteña mais baixa".
If the wife tells you to jump out a window, all you can do is to search for the lowest one".

That was excellent !
frances   Friday, April 22, 2005, 05:37 GMT
I was thinking my favourite quote is in Macedonian-

"Jedno i vredno"
"One and worthy"
rich7   Friday, April 22, 2005, 05:51 GMT
I'll be back"

I can't remember who said it.......


"Al pueblo lo que es del cesar"

Hugo Chavez Frias.
Kazoo   Friday, April 22, 2005, 06:02 GMT
Adult are just obsolete children, and to hell with them.

Dr. Suess
Kazoo   Friday, April 22, 2005, 06:05 GMT
by 'Adult' I meant 'Adults'.
greg   Friday, April 22, 2005, 07:37 GMT
“Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n'est point d'éloge flatteur”
“ Without the freedom to criticise, there is no flattering praise”
Beaumarchais in « Le mariage de Figaro » Acte V, scène 3.

“La liberté de la presse ne s'use que quand on ne s'en sert pas”
“Press freedom never gets worn out unless you don't use it”
Motto of « Le Canard Enchaîné », French satirical weekly and France’s most serious paper.
Jordi   Friday, April 22, 2005, 07:43 GMT
When in Rome do as Romans do.
Don't leave for tomorrow what you can do today.

A nice primary Castilian humour one:

Tiran más dos tetas que dos carretas.

Two teats pull more than two carts.
Someone   Friday, April 22, 2005, 07:49 GMT
No good deed goes unpunished.
Damian   Friday, April 22, 2005, 10:56 GMT
**If the wife tells you to jump out a window, all you can do is to search for the lowest one"**

In the unlikely event of me getting married to a woman I will insist that we live in a bungalow in that case.
Sander   Friday, April 22, 2005, 11:34 GMT
Als het met een vrouw is gelukt,voldoet een schaap niet meer.

I you have done *it* with a woman,a sheep just wont do it anymore.
xurxo   Friday, April 22, 2005, 23:12 GMT
Provérbios em mirandés

Mais bale um paixarico na mano que dous a bolar.

Quien cuônta un cuônto acrecénta-l’un puônto.

Malo háia quien mal de mi diç; malo háia quien me lo chega al nariç.

Nun te fies an perro que nun lhadra, nin an home que nun fala.

Quien buôna semiênte sembra bun trigo cuôlhe.
Bubbler   Friday, April 22, 2005, 23:50 GMT
Regarding Scotland:

"It won't last. Brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like Englishmen and Scots! Or Welshmen and Scots! Or Japanese and Scots! Or Scots and other Scots! Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!"

~Groundskeeper Willy (Simpsons)

Regarding France:

"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your
accordion."

~Norman Schwartzkopf
Sander   Saturday, April 23, 2005, 07:28 GMT
Het maakt niet uit of je arm of rijk bent,we gaan allemaal met de neus omhoog.

Doesn't matter if your rich or wealthy,we all go with our nose up.(<"nose up" in a coffin...)
Sander   Saturday, April 23, 2005, 07:30 GMT
rich = poor