Favorite quotes--part 3.

My favorite Churchill quote:
"Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over 30 who is not a conservative has no brains."

"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." --Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 B.C.
 
I'm not afraid. Luke Skywalker

You will be. Yoda

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"Every normal man must be tempted, at times to spit on his hands,hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats." H.L. Mencken
 
Referring to quotes is about the only thing I do that passes for erudition or wisdom. I love these threads.

Apologies to Ecclesiastes.

"The race is not always to the swift, nor the struggle to the mighty, but that's how you ought to bet". (me)
 
Brought to mind a few minutes ago in another thread ...

US Government Representative to DoD Contractor, "Oh no! You built it EXACTLY like I told you to!"
 
Winston Churchill vs. some old bitty at a dinner party=
Bitty- "Prime Minister, if you were my husband I would put poison in your drink"
Churchill- "Madam, if I were your husband I would drink it"

"sic gorgiamos allos subjectos nunc!" (We gladly feast on those who would subdue us)

Quemadmoeum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."
("A sword is never a killer, it's a tool in the killer's hands.") -
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC-65 AD).

"To pursue the concept of racial entitlement--even for the most admirable and benign of purposes--is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American."
--Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as
possible from one class of citizens to give to the other."
-- Voltaire

A society that puts equality...ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
-- Milton Friedman

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein

And then of course there are my regular tag lines-




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"TANSTAAFL"- R.A. Heinlen

"Molon Labe"- Leonidas to Xerxes at Thermopile
 
Jeff Thomas,

I heard the exchange was between Lady Astor (a strong prohibitionist) and Winston Churchill.

Lady A: Winston! You are disgusting! You are *drunk*.

Winston: Lady Astor, you are correct. I *am* drunk. But you are ugly, and tomorrow *I* shall be sober. (pronounced "SO-bah!" :D)

(Sorry, Jeff. I heard it on a tape by an Englishman - so I have no source. But I enjoy the quote as you do.)
 
sidekick: I wish we could bury those two.
Clint: To hell with those two. Buzzards gotta eat same as worms.
from Outlaw Jose Wales

Chief Dan George: They told us to "endeavor to persevere." We thought about this, endeavor to persevere, for a long time and when we had thought about it long enough we declared war on the white man.
also from Outlaw Jose Wales


Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge has limits, imagination does not.
Albert Einstein
 
“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.”

- Sir Richard F. Burton

“Seeing a murder on television
can help work off one’s antagonisms.
And if you haven’t any antagonisms,
the commercials will give you some.”

- Alfred Hitchcock

“Time flies like an arrow;
fruit flies like a banana.”

- Groucho Marx

“Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.”

- Albert Einstein

“The fellow who thinks he knows it all
is especially annoying to those of us who do.”

- Harold Coffin

“It is not only what we do,
but also what we do not do
for which we are accountable.”

- Moliere

“You live in a deranged age, more deranged
than usual, because in spite of great
scientific and technological advances,
man has not the faintest idea of
who he is or what he is doing.”

- Walker Percy

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God
who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect
has intended us to forgo their use.”

- Galileo Galilei

“Between two evils, I always
pick the one I never tried before.”

- Mae West.

“Good judgment comes from experience,
and experience comes from bad judgment.”

- Fred Brooks

“You can’t eat your friends and have them too.”

- Budd Schulberg

“I want to die like my grandfather, peaceful and in my sleep -
not screaming like the other people in the car.”

- Unknown

“Religion is the opiate of the masses.”

- Karl Marx

“If you can spend a perfectly useless
afternoon in a perfectly useless manner,
you have learned how to live.”

- Lin Yutang

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable
that we have to alter it every six months.”

- Oscar Wilde

“Remember that two wrongs
do not make a right -
but that three lefts do.”

- Unknown

"I know you believe that you understand what you think I said, But I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."

- Unknown

“If I were locked in solitary confinement,
I’d find this fascinating.”

- Dr. Kephart


“I hate quotations.”

- Emerson

Medic

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Admit Nothing,
Deny Everything,
Make Counter Accusations
 
"Don't take life so seriously folks - It ain't no-hows permanent"

"We have met the enemy, and he is us"

both from Walt Kelly, creator of the Pogo comic strip
 
For Keiller TN : R.A.Heinlein's version" It may be true that is better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion- and, usually easier.Lazarus Long.
crankshaft
 
The mind is the primary weapon, all else is supplemental...Steinbeck

I don't hate my enemies, after all, I made them...Buddy Hacket

God made all men, but Col. Colt made them equal...Unknown, old West

Lots of men live and die without ever getting to learn what they're made of...Old TV Western, don't remember the title

You hooz, you lose...Sim Jr, on moving to Indiana (LOVE it here, btw)
 
"Look back on our struggle for freedom.
Trace our present-day strength to its source,
and you will find that our pathway to glory
is strewn with the bones of the horse."-
Annonymous
 
"Don't write a check your a@@ can't cash."
-my dad


"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are made new."
the Appostle Paul, II Corinthians 5:17

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Imagine the typical college kid writing home:

"No mon. No fun. Your son." - unknown.

The response:

"Too bad. So sad. Your dad." - unknown's dad.
 
This place was so tough, there was a sign above the urinal that said, "Don't eat the big white mint!"

From the Movie "Roadhouse"

-R

PS: If you like movie quote guessing games, check out the Movie Quote Contest. There are 9 catagories, and if you guess the movie correctly, you get to enter the quote that replaces it!! Have fun!!



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