There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
Dizzle I liked your point and I was joking too. That's why football fan forums are fun. We all come from the same SE London piss taking background and have chosen to follow our own local team rather than celebrity London teams. We're a great little community.
There are known knowns. These are things that we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know that we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
In the 1988 Vice Presidential debates one of the greatest put downs of all time, by Lloyd Bentsen to J. Danforth Quayle (a man who couldn't even spell potato) who had made a reference comparing his experience with that of President Kennedy when the latter was in the Senate: "Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy"
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Billy Connolly
Spike Milligan
W. C. Fields
"Remember when we went to Spain for the Ango-Italian Cup?"
Shaun Newton, circa 1994, as quoted by Garry Nelson in Left Foot Forward
' I didnt expect Kenny Rogers to look like that '........... my wife at the end of a Don Williams concert that I persuaded her to come to.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
—Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
These are things that we know that we know.
There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know that we don't know.
But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld
I always liked Margot Asquith's who got annoyed with Jean Harlow constantantly mispronouncing her first name
"The 't' is silent darling, as in 'Harlow'"
"Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy"
'I got into bed and my wife said 'God you're feet are cold' 'I said, just call me Brian dear' - Brian Clough
Last night ""The only thing required for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." by Edmund Burke came up while my son was playing.
And they say these games aren't educational
A premiership side will win it why not us?
Llewellyn Charles
The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out
Ability is nothing without opportunity
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse
Dalai Lama
Good advice to follow though, just wish I did it more!
"It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said "Goodbye" it could confuse a lot of people."
Dolph Sharp
"They're not laughing now"
Bob Monkhouse.
Ray Wilkins
Losing by six goals can certainly take the wind out of your sails
Micky Quinn
Its not about tomorrow for Arsenal - its about the future
Sky 's John Richardson
John Terry has had more central defensive pairings than Fred Astaire
Tim Flowers
He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb
Martin Roberts, Property 'expert'
This house is crammed with space.