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 PHILIPAs so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.
More Prince Philip Quotes
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All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
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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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Everything that wasn’t invented by God is invented by an engineer.
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We live in what virtually amounts to a museum – which does not happen to a lot of people.
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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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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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I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
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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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Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
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I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.
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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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As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.
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Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.
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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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Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival.
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