Profound Quotes You Relate To

[RayCee]

I'll kick off with one:

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

― Rudyard Kipling

[JohnM]

"life is too short to be nice to old people" -Agatha Raisin

[CanaBull]

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." - Douglas Adams.

[Irish Saint]

"Dont let the bar stewards grind you down"

Arthur Seaton "Saturday Night Sunday Morning"

Alan Sillitoe

[Gerrumonside ref]

Be yourself, everyone else is taken!

-Oscar Wilde

[graveyard johnny]

I do maintain - that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong - MORRISSEY

[Phil]

Anarchists have a 'bad name' in the media, not because they can point to one indiscriminate massacre by anarchists--there have been none--but because the one thing holders of power fear is that they personally should be held responsible for their own actions
 

Stuart Christie 

[Futtocks]

“You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.”

(Kinky Friedman)

[gingerjon]

“Royalty was like dandelions. No matter how many heads you chopped off, the roots were still there underground, waiting to spring up again.

It seemed to be a chronic disease. It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: "Kings. What a good idea." Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.”

-- Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

[Vambo]

"There is no authority but yourself" - Crass

[Ullman]

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

-Mike Tyson

[The Future is League]

The man who waits long enough by the riverbank will see the body of his enemy go past

                                                 An old Chines proverb

[Futtocks]

31 minutes ago, Vambo said:

"There is no authority but yourself" - Crass

A mindset adopted more recently by the "Sovereign Citizen" numpties.

[GUBRATS]

Somebody said it couldn't be done 

Edgar guest 

[Vambo]

1 hour ago, Futtocks said:

A mindset adopted more recently by the "Sovereign Citizen" numpties.

I'd never heard of them so I've just  googled them

 

[Futtocks]

Just now, Vambo said:

I'd never heard of them so I've just  googled them

...and don't you wish you hadn't?

[silverback]

You cant polish a ######,   > Will darnell.

[Vambo]

37 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

...and don't you wish you hadn't?

As much as I do like to expand my knowledge of things... sometimes ignorance is beneficial

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Knob head. 

- anyone 5 minutes after they've met me. 

[hindle xiii]

"You do you." - unknown.

It's very helpful in this day and age of apparently mandatory divisive opinion.

Edit: urban dictionary disagrees;

Millennial way of passive aggressively telling someone to go f themselves.

[Bostik Bailey]

Never ascribe you malice that which can easily be explained by incompetence 

 

A clever person solves the problem, a wise person avoids it.

[Robin Evans]

"It'll either rain or get dark afoore morning"! Evans.J. (1967).

[The Rocket]

Mine`s not a quote but a line from Robbie Burns poem " To a Mouse ". 

" an` fellow-mortal ".

It`s sums up how I feel about all the little creatures I meet when I walk around my farm or where ever I go or all of our fellow creatures in general.

 

[JohnM]

13 hours ago, Futtocks said:

A mindset adopted more recently by the "Sovereign Citizen" numpties.

Jeeeeez! Worth  a topic all is own!   

[Bearman]

Life is like a siht sandwich... the more bread you've got, the less siht you've gotta eat,