Countess Markievicz by Homebound
“Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank and buy a revolver” Countess Markievicz, 1916.
Mark at Jam Art Prints writes:
Jam Art Factory just got this new Countess Markievicz print in by HomeBound this week and would like to give an A3 signed one away to the winner of this week’s competition. These prints can be bought in A4 to massive A0 limited/unlimited editions from here
The quote used by Homebound is a memorable one and, to enter, just give us your favourite quote that you often like to, er, quote when facing a war-like situation or even a domestic battle/Broadsheet comments section, etc.
Lines must close on Friday at 10am.
The Jam Art Print competition appears here every second Thursday.
Thought Olga Cronin had gone to work for the Irish Council for Civil Liberties?
Is she back?
Sorry, I was in her old seat.
You’re forgiven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzTpTvpPCsQ
before planing a big race and during training you need a few mantras to prep the head and to shout at yourself when the pain kicks in and your body starts telling you little lies to make you stop,
I start with ” fail to prepare, prepare to fail ” to get my bottom out the door and once going and the going gets tough ” your ancestors are laughing at you ” or ” this too shall pass ” or ” I’m making love to the pain ” :)
Great lad.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. — Bodger 2020
*wipes tear*
Nah, I like the duck one
Good question but a tricky one because Janet has just ‘stolen’ any quote that i might use but will come up with a rejoinder before 5.45.. only kiddin Janet, don’t klll me plz …
cracks knuckles
Not the face anywhere but not the face …. :-) ;-)
He/She who fights and runs away will live to fight another day.
Or:
“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”
Some English bloke.
An army marches on its stomach…
if you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.
if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
It is all very black and white in clichéland.
I might have roared that second one during a full on teething bout at some misguided person trying to give me advice, the man’s a saint really
‘Up the ‘RA’
David Cullinane 2020, I believe
”If it’s to be, it’s up to me. ”
Never, ever in any scenario (well I guess maybe not surgery) expect anyone else to do anything for you (although maybe let the chefs do their thing seeing as you paying and they are better than you are.)
You want something done? Do it yourself. (Again, maybe not when it comes to servicing or repairing your gas boiler or similar but for almost everything else…..)
or always ask a busy person if you want something done
Sigh, OK, what is it now?
;)
just the ironing
I came to chew bubble gum and kick ass.
And I’m all out of bubble gum.
I still reckon they were really fighting in that scene down the lane. I know Roddy was a wrestler and all but unless that tarmac was fake, ouch!
It. Just. Keeps. Going.
Still, such a brilliant message, showed the wife a few years back and she was amazed at the anti capitalist message of what appeared to be your average macho 80s movie.
Oh, the whole thing is a favourite.
“Sh *t happens and then you clean it up.”
Bad and messy things will happen, sometimes you can’t stop or mitigate them and there is no point getting stressed and anxious, you can only clean up the aftermath.
nods sagely at all the tombstones in garden
:)
funny though, it has also been quite helpful around the deaths in the family we’ve had over the past 2 or 3 years. Even just standing in the doorway before a wake and giving everyone a job as they arrive, ‘make sandwiches with your cousins’, ‘bring the second kettle and as many cups as you can carry’, ‘find the poitín in the shed’ etc.
:)
its better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.
(as i reach…and stand my ground)
“Molon labe” Leonidas of Sparta
or latterly
“ Russian warship, go f**k yourself” Roman Hrybov
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-soldiers-snake-island-medal-russia-b2047078.html
I like to use this at work when I’m trying to get my point across “If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong” if it doesn’t work, it gets a good laugh !
That constituency hasn’t had a Sinn Fein TD until Chris Andrews was elected in 2020.
Easy
• Give ’em fú**ing nathin’
• Don’t spare a bitta timber and handily convertible
• Give ’em plenty ah’ timber
• Stitch it was inta’them
• Don’t you worry ‘insert name of your danger player here‘ you’ve the bate’ ins of that ‘insert name of their danger player / marker here
Want more?
What about “take your points and the goals will come themselves” or “this is senior hurling now”?
If there was hair on it ya’d catch it
(◠‿◕)
”Nuts”
Gen. Anthony McAuliffe
‘an A3 signed one ‘
Jesus, that Countess Mar – Mark – Marko-
Anyway, is he around still to sign it?
“As sure as hell, if it rained soup, I’d have a knife and fork in my hand”
I like to live by the maxim:
“better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission.”
I’d roll with that
….my local for years was a dive bar on Mulberry St called “Eight Mile Creek” it should have been called eight ball creek as it was infamous for lock in’s,serving after 4 am.
the scene was servers and restaurant workers from Soho,so many mornings i would be coming back with the milk…one early morning,late nite one guy stepped in front me one stepped out from a doorway behind me…
Steps in-asks me the time-i without thinking flash my Audemars Piguet,he goes nice watch,can i have it.
Fight ensures,i keep the watch but lose one my front teeth,so for a while after i had a ‘false’ front tooth that i could take out.
so one night at Crystal it got a bit rowdy,looked like it might go off,i took out my fake front tooth,smiled and the situation was diffused.
sometimes a smile is all you need:)
It’s not an anecdote competition
And that makes a story that’s really not bad!
But it still could be better. Suppose that I add…
A Chinaman who eats with sticks
A big magician doing tricks
A ten foot beard that needs a comb…
No time for more I’m almost home.
I swung round the corner
And dashed through the gate
I ran up the steps
And I felt simply great!
FOR I HAD A STORY THAT NO ONE COULD BEAT!
AND TO THINK THAT I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET!
Love is the answer, what was the Question ?
Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much ….
A home without books is a body without Soul….
Was only going to do three but couldn’t resist this one :: Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth …
” You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” Especially true when fighting with the missus.
‘the only thing i get from putting me foot down is a sore foot’.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
William Tecumseh Sherman
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
George S. Patton
“If you are not part of the Solution you are part of the precipitate”
“If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly”
well here are a few my auld fella lives by and who am I to argue,
– grass never grows on a busy street and you’ll never see a baldy headed donkey,
– there’s no one like you since leatherarse died
– the things you see when you forget your gun… swiftly followed by – a wee bit of lead in the left ear would sort that out
– it’s not hanging from your bottom lip or you’d feel the weight of it
– shut your duck hole before someone lays an egg in it
and one for COVID- it’s not the coughing that carries you off it’s the coffin they carry you off in
cleans ear with car key
I like the duck one
Eat nerves…shit results
God laughs at men that make plans!
you can bomb the world to pieces, but you can’t bomb it into peace.
michael franti
win
Yer oul wan’s on the game
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
― Herbert Hoover
The secret to happiness:
‘Never read a comments section on the internet’.
that’s you fupped so
When facing a crap situation, I always go to this one to remind me of all the things all our ancestors had to go through and survived.
“ Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life’s quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result — eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly — in you.” Bill Bryson
Basically, if you’re alive right now – you come from a lineage of absolute awesome winners. The best of the best.
Give yourself a pat on the back all 7.9 billion humans. ;-)
I like this, hence my ancestors are laughing at me mantra
“No-one’s ever really gone. A thousand generations live in you now”
– Luke Skywalker
A Belfast mother named Maura……
https://gript.ie/praise-for-mums-gate-poster-blasting-politicians-who-voted-for-disability-abortion/
Your money or your life?
Our revenge will be the laughter of our children… Bobby Sands.
“ I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night…”
Allen Ginsberg ponders the Broadsheet comments section
When you rise, we shine.
‘ave it !
“Why, if instead of being so strong, our last cartridge had been fired, our last shilling had been spent, and our last man were lying on the ground and his enemies howling round him and their bayonets raised, ready to plunge them into his body, that man should say – true to the traditions handed down – if they said to him: ‘Now, will you come into our Empire?’ – he should say, and he would say: ‘No! I will not.’ That is the spirit that has lasted all through the centuries, and you people in favour of the Treaty know that the British Government and the British Empire will have gone down before that spirit dies out in Ireland.”
~ Cathal Brugha
“Fail we may, sail we must” Tattooed on the arm of the late Andrew Weatherall. An adaptation of an old seafarer mantra.
Inspired by a chat with a West Cork fisherman
https://djmag.com/news/andrew-weatherall-s-fail-we-may-sail-we-must-origin-story-uncovered-irish-radio-dj
Indeed it is Otis. I managed to catch the screening of the film they made about it at the Sugar Club a few weeks back. A nice tale and the fisherman in question even put in an appearance for a Q&A session.
That’s brilliant.
“No fear, No envy, No meanness” a great line that Liam Clancy apparently said to Bob Dylan.
Simple, clear and solid advice.
FIDO
F*ck It. Drive On!
I love this print, I’d love to it add it to my daughter’s wall as some inspiration for her!
Favourite quote when facing a war like situation to lighten the mood: “I’m normally not a praying man, but if you’re up there, please save me Superman.”
Although having read down through this thread and watched the video I must say “Fail we may, sail we must” is amazingly brilliant & the story behind it just enhances it’s brilliance!
show me the money