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 PHILIPI had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.
More Prince Philip Quotes
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Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.
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It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.
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I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.
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I can’t remember names and things.
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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.
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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.
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My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.
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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.
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Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.
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All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
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A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.
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I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.
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Tolerance is the one essential ingredient. You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.
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There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.
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So who’s on drugs here? He looks as if he’s on drugs.
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