This page has very little or absolutely nothing to do with football. These are quotes that I have come across that I find interesting or funny.
New ones at top.
If you know any quotes that you feel give a different slant on life, send them to me.
Updated 6th January 2000
When are they (the train companies) going to stop killing their customers?
A member of the public speaking in a radio interview the day following the Paddington train crash that killed 31 people. (September 1999)
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
William Hazlitt (1830)
"There are three kinds of people in this world, those that can count, and those that can't".
Anon. (and so they should be)
"You can gauge the development of a civilisation by the objects of its laughter."
Goethe
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins,"
Oliver Wendall Holmes
"At every party there are two kinds of people...those who want to go home and those who don't, unfortunately they are normally married to each other"
Ann Landers
"Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else."
Barbara Ehrenreich, U.S. Author
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
James Branch Cabell (1926)
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana (1905)
"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising. And a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation."
Caius Petronius (AD66)
"I envy the paranoid...they actually think people are paying attention to them."
Susan Sontag, an American writer.
"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards"
Theodore Roosvelt (1903)
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learnt in 7 years."
Mark Twain (attributed but not traced in his works)
"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."
Don Marquis (1927)
"The opera ain't over 'til the fat fat lady sings."
Dan Cook (1978)
"Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open onto it."
Seneca ('the Younger') c.4BC-AD65