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Prince Philip - From the Aging category:
-said in a letter to The Oldie magazine after being voted Consort of the Year...
There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Architecture category:
-opening a new annex at Vancouver City Hall...
I declare this thing open - whatever it is. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Beginning category:
There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything - especially if it has never been done before. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Books category:
Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age. It is, of course, equally silly to condemn the new fangled simply because it is strange... (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Communication category:
As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Complaining category:
-said during the 1981 recession...
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Earth category:
Yet the wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Environment category:
The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Fire category:
-to Lockerbie residents after plane bombing, 1993...
People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Frustration category:
-to the matron of a hospital in the Caribbean...
You have mosquitoes. I have the Press. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Future category:
It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Gender category:
You can take it from me the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Humanity category:
For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Interest category:
I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Invention category:
The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Knowledge category:
I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Life category:
The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Money category:
All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Questions category:
It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Questions category:
A VIP at a local airport asked HRH: 'What was your flight, like, Your Royal Highness?' Philip replied, 'Have you ever flown in a plane?' The VIP answered, 'Oh yes, sir, many times.' 'Well,' said Philip, 'it was just like that.' (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Questions category:
-to journalist Caroline Wyatt, who asked if the Queen was enjoying a Paris trip, 2006...
Damn fool question! (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Technology category:
I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Technology category:
-while stuck in a Heriot Watt University lift in 1958...
This could only happen in a technical college. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Words category:
'Dontopedology' is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years. (Prince Philip)
Prince Philip - From the Work category:
My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work. (Prince Philip)
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