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Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age.

Prince Philip

It’s much better to go when you are still capable than wait until people say you’re so doddery it’s time you went.
PRINCE PHILIP

Better Capable People Time
Everything that wasn’t invented by God is invented by an engineer.
PRINCE PHILIP

Engineer God Invention
Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I’ve practised for many years.
PRINCE PHILIP

Feet Mouth Practice Science
I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.
PRINCE PHILIP

Age Decision Give Up Play Polo
The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
PRINCE PHILIP

Carpet Examination Funny Invention Man Red
You can’t just decide you want to do this or that. You have to be invited.
PRINCE PHILIP

Decision Invitation Want
I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.
PRINCE PHILIP

Experience Government People World
Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.
PRINCE PHILIP

Challenge Change Strength Threat Traditional
We live in what virtually amounts to a museum – which does not happen to a lot of people.
PRINCE PHILIP

Amount Happen Live Museum People Virtual
It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.
PRINCE PHILIP

Country People Pleasure Rule
A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.
PRINCE PHILIP

Angry Ball Cricket Dangerous Gun Hands Man
If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.
PRINCE PHILIP

Carpet Country Ideas Man People
I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
PRINCE PHILIP

Moral Prostitute Wife
Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.
PRINCE PHILIP

Duty Family Name Society
I don’t care what kind it is, just get me a beer.
PRINCE PHILIP

Albohol Beer Care Funny
I’ve never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.
PRINCE PHILIP

Notice Subject Talk
As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.
PRINCE PHILIP

Communication Discover Happen Moth Shut
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

Deliberate Disappear Ignorance Nature Neglect Wildlife
Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.
PRINCE PHILIP

Drug Population Problem
I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.
PRINCE PHILIP

Confess Interest Leisure Man Money Poor
People think there’s a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.
PRINCE PHILIP

Class Country Girl Marriage People System Thinking
So who’s on drugs here? He looks as if he’s on drugs.
PRINCE PHILIP

Drug Toxic
My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.
PRINCE PHILIP

Aviod Favorite School Subject Unnecessary Work
Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival.
PRINCE PHILIP

Growth Human Population Probable Serious Survival Threat
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

Business Done Excellence Motivational Reason Start
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.
PRINCE PHILIP

Car Funny Man Wife
If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.
PRINCE PHILIP

Aeroplane Chair Eat Legs Wings

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