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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
    • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Favourite quotations
« Reply #15 on: September 21, 2011, 08:23:04 am »
Someone translate the Latin ones for me, please  ???
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
    • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Favourite quotations
« Reply #16 on: September 21, 2011, 09:04:16 am »
Sorry - draco dormiens nunquam tittilandus is basically let sleeping dogs lie but actually means 'don't disturb a sleeping dragon'.
Semper in excreto solum profundum variat is 'always in the sh*t only the depth varies'.


Sally - I LOVE the fox in with the hounds - never seen it before.  Perfect illustration of the saying  :) :)
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"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
    • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Favourite quotations
« Reply #17 on: September 21, 2011, 09:10:09 am »
Quote from: bigchicken on September 20, 2011, 06:50:59 pm
My favourite,     It takes all kinds of vegtables to make a pot of soup

I like that.
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"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
    • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Favourite quotations
« Reply #18 on: September 21, 2011, 09:43:45 am »
Thank you!
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
    • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Favourite quotations
« Reply #19 on: September 21, 2011, 11:13:27 am »
One of my favourites, from the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, is very simple -

                            DON'T PANIC !!!
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"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

robert waddell

  • Guest
Re: Favourite quotations
« Reply #20 on: September 21, 2011, 02:19:26 pm »
fleecewife might get this one S.N.A.F.U. :farmer:
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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
    • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Favourite quotations
« Reply #21 on: September 21, 2011, 02:29:04 pm »
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Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

robert waddell

  • Guest
Re: Favourite quotations
« Reply #22 on: September 21, 2011, 02:36:29 pm »
ah good old wikipedia :thumbsup: :trophy: :thumbsup:
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sabrina

  • Joined Nov 2008
Re: Favourite quotations
« Reply #23 on: September 21, 2011, 02:42:05 pm »
What's for you won't go by you.  :)
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
    • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Favourite quotations
« Reply #24 on: September 21, 2011, 03:25:04 pm »
Quote from: robert waddell on September 21, 2011, 02:19:26 pm
fleecewife might get this one S.N.A.F.U. :farmer:

  :D :D
Is that for being old or being a one-time military wife?
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"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

Sylvia

  • Joined Aug 2009
Re: Favourite quotations
« Reply #25 on: September 21, 2011, 03:58:06 pm »
My dad was an opera lover and would sometimes sit me down to listen to a recording. I would listen dutifully, bored witless. When dad realised this he would let me go, saying "It's like feeding a strawberry to a pig!"
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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
    • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Favourite quotations
« Reply #26 on: September 21, 2011, 05:01:00 pm »
Quote from: Sylvia on September 21, 2011, 03:58:06 pm
My dad was an opera lover and would sometimes sit me down to listen to a recording. I would listen dutifully, bored witless. When dad realised this he would let me go, saying "It's like feeding a strawberry to a pig!"


Dad had clearly never hand-fed a pig!  Very discerning, our Meg is!
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Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

colliewoman

  • Joined Jul 2011
    • Pilton
  • Caution! May spontaneously talk rabbits!
Re: Favourite quotations
« Reply #27 on: September 21, 2011, 08:54:24 pm »
i had a sign above my front door when i lived in a house saying
'do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup'.

the bumper (basket) sticker on my bike reads;
if you ate today, thank a farmer


on love life.... don't matter where you get your appetite, just make sure to eat at home.


and my all time favourite.... it's far easier to get forgiveness that permission ;)
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We'll turn the dust to soil,
Turn the rust of hate back into passion.
It's not water into wine
But it's here, and it's happening.
Massive,
but passive.


Bring the peace back

knightquest

  • Joined May 2010
    • Birmingham
    • Knight Pet Supplies
Re: Favourite quotations
« Reply #28 on: September 21, 2011, 09:37:54 pm »
Just when you make something idiot proof, they bring along a bigger idiot!

Ian
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Ian (me), Diane (my wife) and 4 dogs. Ollie (Lab mix) , Quest (Malamute), Gazer and Boris (Leonbergers)

Gordon M

  • Joined Sep 2009
Re: Favourite quotations
« Reply #29 on: September 22, 2011, 01:29:42 am »
My all time favourite is:
"You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead"
Laurel and Hardy  from "Way Out West"
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