I'm a sucker for a good quote ..

[dak125]

Here are a few of my favorites. Churchill was the man when it came to quotes btw.

Helen Ogden Mills Reid, sister of the anti-British owner of the Chicago Tribune, encountered Churchill at a White House lunch in 1943 and immediately attacked him on the grounds of Britains's treatment of India.

"Before we proceed further let us get one thing clear. Are we talking about the brown Indians in India, who have multiplied alarmingly under the benevolent British rule? Or are we speaking of the red Indians in America who, I understand, are almost extinct?" - Winston Churchill

"I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." - Winston Churchill

The following two are tied for my two favorite quotes at the moment ...

"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." - J. Paul Getty

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill

 

[FoBoT]

[Nigel is playing a soft piece on the piano]
Marty DiBergi: It's very pretty.
Nigel Tufnel: Yeah, I've been fooling around with it for a few months.
Marty DiBergi: It's a bit of a departure from what you normally play.
Nigel Tufnel: It's part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy I'm working on in D minor which is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don't know why.
Marty DiBergi: It's very nice.
Nigel Tufnel: You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like - I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really. It's like a Mach piece, really. It's sort of...
Marty DiBergi: What do you call this?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, this piece is called "Lick My Love Pump".

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Awkward to post it again, but oh well.

Evey: Who are you?
V. : Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey: Well I can see that.
V. : Of course you can, I'm not questioning your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
Evey: Oh, right.
V. : But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace soubriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona. Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the ?vox populi? now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it?s my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.
Evey: Are you like a crazy person?
V. : I?m quite sure they will say so.

 

[BradT]

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

TR is the sh!t.

 

[EGGO]

Absorb what is useful...Discard what is useless...Apply what is yours.

"It's easy to take the check, you know, but if you want to have any longevity, just take things that have artistic merit in them. I want to do quality. If it's good telly, I'll do it. If it's good theater, I'll do it."
- Cillian Murphy, on choosing his roles.

 

[ChaoZ]

J: Looking ?round the room
I can tell that you
Are the most beautiful girl
In the room.
B: In the whole wide room
J: And when you?re on the street
Depending on the street
I bet that you are definitely
In the top three
Good looking girls on the street
B: Depending on the street

 

[Vageetasjn]

Saw this one on igoogle and it gave me a kick.


The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
- George Bernard Shaw

 

[BrianH1]

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone; you are the one who gets burned~Buddha

 

[dlock13]

"Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads."
-Doc Brown.

 

[gar3555]

"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

-- John Stuart Mill

 

[Ruptga]

The one currently in my sig as well as

"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." - Churchill

 

[IronWing]

No point steering now - Dog McKenzie

 

[GoingUp]

'It's not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or when the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worth cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.'


It is the Soldier, not the reporter
who has given us freedom of press.

It is the Soldier, not the poet
who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer
who gives us freedom to demonstrate.

It is the Soldier who salutes the flag,
who serves beneath the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
who allows the protester to burn the flag.

 

[CraKaJaX]

"Don't worry about the world ending today, after all it's already tomorrow in Australia." -Charles Schultz

 

[jersiq]

I've always liked Ambrose Bierce, especially his definitions.

"Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage"

 

[FeuerFrei]

September 19, 1796, George Washington delivered his Farewell Address.

He stated:

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity,
Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.
In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to
subvert these great Pillars...
Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be
maintained without religion...
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can
prevail in exclusion of religious principle...
Morality is a necessary spring of popular government...
Who that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon
attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?"

 

[her209]

Two monks were washing their bowls in the river when they noticed a scorpion that was drowning. One monk immediately scooped it up and set it upon the bank. In the process he was stung. He went back to washing his bowl and again the scorpion fell in. The monk saved the scorpion and was again stung. The other monk asked him, "Friend, why do you continue to save the scorpion when you know it's nature is to sting?"

"Because," the monk replied, "to save it is my nature."

 

[bctbct]

"Look at the cans on her"

-me-

 

[ppdes]

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough" -- Mario Andretti

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

All things are transitory, this too shall pass.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Google my sig to find out what it means

 

[Rock Hydra]

"Life sucks, get a fucking helmet."
-Denis Leary

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets." ~Arthur C. Clarke

 

[BrownTown]

I'll go posting some of my favorite quotes although I have alot. Start out with the Stalin & Hitler quotes because those are pretty though provoking.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
-Joseph Stalin

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
-Joseph Stalin

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
-Adolf Hitler

This one goes great with:

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire

More Voltaire:

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
-Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
-Voltaire

Then we can go Nietzsche, lots of insight, but in the end the author is an idiot imo:

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[CraKaJaX]

Originally posted by: Rock Hydra
"Life sucks, get a fucking helmet."
-Denis Leary

:laugh:

:thumbsup:

I love that bit.