you're forgiven Biffo, people are always getting their Washington/Lincoln's mixed up especially on their quotes re the Internet

"A house divided against itself cannot stand" - Abraham Lincoln (and George Costanza). Something for all Demon supporters, and players, to remember.

Following rounds 1 & 2: "It's only a flesh wound!"

And some sound advice to all and sundry on this forum and down at the clubhouse:

words and music by Eric Idle

Some things in life are bad

They can really make you mad

Other things just make you swear and curse.

When you're chewing on life's gristle

Don't grumble, give a whistle

And this'll help things turn out for the best...

And...always look on the bright side of life...

Always look on the light side of life...

If life seems jolly rotten

There's something you've forgotten

And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.

When you're feeling in the dumps

Don't be silly chumps

Just purse your lips and whistle - that's the thing.

And...always look on the bright side of life...

Always look on the light side of life...

For life is quite absurd

And death's the final word

You must always face the curtain with a bow.

Forget about your sin - give the audience a grin

Enjoy it - it's your last chance anyhow.

So always look on the bright side of death

Just before you draw your terminal breath

Life's a piece of [censored]

When you look at it

Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.

You'll see it's all a show

Keep 'em laughing as you go

Just remember that the last laugh is on you.

And always look on the bright side of life...

Always look on the right side of life...

(Come on guys, cheer up!)

Always look on the bright side of life...

Always look on the bright side of life...

(Worse things happen at sea, you know.)

Always look on the bright side of life...

(I mean - what have you got to lose?)

(You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.

What have you lost? Nothing!)

Always look on the right side of life...

"Say it ain't so Joe" (young boy to Black Sox Scandal Player "Shoeless" Joe Jackson).

Fight apathy............or don't

It's not about the journey, it's about how you get there

Caesar: Has anyone seen my laurels

Brutus: On your couch, you've been resting on them

Carry on Cleo

"I spent most of my money on booze, drugs and women - the rest I wasted" (or something to that effect)

George Best

Inspired me anyway.

Also "indecision is the key to flexibility"

Mark Neeld's first address to the MFC:

You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human f**king beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian sh*t! Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here. Here you are all equally worthless. And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps. Do you maggots understand that?

(Full Metal Jacket 1987)

Mark Neeld's first address to the MFC:

You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human f**king beings. You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian sh*t! Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here. Here you are all equally worthless. And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps. Do you maggots understand that?

(Full Metal Jacket 1987)

You can't handle the truth.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

struck me as mechanistic and robotic... same as they play... i think the players have overdosed on 'system', 'structure' and sermonising.

" Can I move ? " : The Sundance Kid

Relevant for the club right now.

"Get up you son-of-a-[censored] , cause Micky loves ya !"

Get up you son-of-a-[censored] , cause Micky loves ya !

The irony is that Rocky has that vision after Mick dies. Micky was too much of a curmudgeon to say he loves anyone.

You're right-it was Lincoln ,I just checked it in my Encyclopaedia.

It was Lincoln - I checked his blog

This is a quote from Teddy Roosevelt and a favourite of mine. I often think of this when certain journalists decide to give a particular young player of ours a constant trial by media!

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

i really like this

Once , during prohibition ,I was forced to live on nothing but food and water .

WC Fields .

"A house divided against itself cannot stand" - Abraham Lincoln (and George Costanza). Something for all Demon supporters, and players, to remember.

To pick nits, Lincoln was doing the 19th century equivalent of 'retweeting' Jesus ...

More on the topic, another good Churchill quote, not irrevelant to this thread:

"Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense"

and another:

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm"

If you think you can't, you're probably right.

A good plan executed violently right now is better than a perfect plan executed some time next week.

- George Patton