Your Favorite Quotes

[Jimbuna]

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill

[u crank]

From the series 'The Wire'....

I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It's all in the game, though, right?

- Omar Little

[Sailor Steve]

"Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed."
-Robert A. Heinlein

[kranz]

seems like somebody's fixation is over 9000 :O:

my turn:

We won't lose the war now. We have gained a new ally who hasn't lost for 3000 years. We also have another ally who loses all the time but always ends on the victorious side.

A.Hitler

[Sailor Steve]

seems like somebody's fixation is over 9000 :O:
If you mean me, I said at the beginning I've been collecting quotes for years, and I would be going straight down my list.

If you don't mean me, never mind. :zzz:

[Tango589]

Aaarrrgh, uurrrggghhh, uhhhhh, ekkhhhhhh!

John Hurt, when the Alien bursts out of his chest.

[Sailor Steve]

"Oh god, not again!"
-John Hurt, when the alien burst out of his chest the second time (Spaceballs).

[Jimbuna]

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

[fireftr18]

"Oh god, not again!"
-John Hurt, when the alien burst out of his chest the second time (Spaceballs).

:yeah:

[Jimbuna]

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Winston Churchill

[STEED]

The joy of farting in public is something your never know standing there holding it in.

[Sailor Steve]

"The optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist is afraid he might be right."
―Robert A. Heinlein

[Jimbuna]

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."
―Robert A. Heinlein

[Sailor Steve]

"The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
―Robert A. Heinlein

[Jimbuna]

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Winston Churchill

[Tchocky]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/08/article-0-0290058B00000578-290_468x286.jpg

[Sailor Steve]

"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."
-Robert A. Heinlein

[Jimbuna]

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday."
-Robert A. Heinlein

[Platapus]

"Almost all nations observe almost all principles of international law and almost all of their obligations almost all of the time." Louis Henkin

[mapuc]

Sometimes the peace is harder to fight then the war itself.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

True to this day.

[Sailor Steve]

But is it a quote? Who said it first?

[Jimbuna]

But is it a quote? Who said it first?

Mapuc....then me :)

[mapuc]

But is it a quote? Who said it first?


Yep it is my own quote

I Had it for years. It was when I saw and heard a Swedish reporter commentating the second war in Iraq 2003.

Sometimes the Peace is harder to fight then the war itself.

Markus

[Sailor Steve]

Yep it is my own quote
Cool. :rock:

[Jimbuna]

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Winston Churchill

[fireftr18]

Tis better to sound stupid and be smart, than trying to sound smart and end up being stupid.

[Sailor Steve]

One of yours? I like it. :yep:

[Sailor Steve]

"When only cops have guns, it's called a 'Police State'."
-Robert A. Heinlein

[Jimbuna]

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
-Robert A. Heinlein

[Jimbuna]

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

[STEED]

Get your rocks off man.

I made this one up that means nothing but within three days in the 1990's it caught on around here for a while.

[Sailor Steve]

Get your rocks off man.

I made this one up that means nothing but within three days in the 1990's it caught on around here for a while.
You made it up? In the '90s? It was a common phrase here 20 years before that. In fact in one of the skits in the movie The Groove Tube (1974) there was a Russian astronaut character called Vladimir Getchuroksov.

[Jimbuna]

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"I am not well versed in history, but I will submit to your recollection, whether liberty has been destroyed most often by the licentiousness of the people, or by the tyranny of the rulers."
-Patrick Henry, speaking against the Constitution at the Virginia Ratification Convention.

[joe cool]

So ungrateful after all the times I've saved your life..
-The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

[Jimbuna]

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Churchill

[STEED]

You made it up? In the '90s? It was a common phrase here 20 years before that. In fact in one of the skits in the movie The Groove Tube (1974) there was a Russian astronaut character called Vladimir Getchuroksov.

WOW...:o

Thanks Steve. :up:

[Sailor Steve]

"We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate."
-Kin Hubbard

[Jimbuna]

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing."
-William Ralph Inge

[Jimbuna]

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.”
―Thomas Jefferson advising his daughter Martha, 1787

[fireftr18]

"You can't remember things you don't remember."

Spoken today be the lead instructor in a firefighter class I'm helping with.

[Jimbuna]

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"I cannot live without books; but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object."
―Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, June 10, 1815

[Platapus]

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your troubles, you would not sit down for a month -- Teddy Roosevelt

[Red October1984]

"Gentlemen! You can't fight in here. This is the war room." :)

[TarJak]

Crikey - Steve Irwin

[Jimbuna]

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"Laws provide against injury from others, but not from ourselves."
―Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Religion

[Armistead]

Tis better to sound stupid and be smart, than trying to sound smart and end up being stupid.


I have a saying something like that.

Sometimes it's best to feign stupidity, so when you have to be smart, they won't see it coming.

[Sailor Steve]

"Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities."
―Thomas Jefferson; first inaugural address, March 4, 1801

[Jimbuna]

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
― Thomas Jefferson

[Jimbuna]

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes On The State Of Virginia

[Sailor Steve]

"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."
—Thomas Jefferson to M. L'Hommande, 1787

[Jimbuna]

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Winston Churchill

[Platapus]

"We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future." -- Jeron Criswell King

[Sailor Steve]

"The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign nations."
―Thomas Jefferson; letter to Gideon Granger, August 13, 1800

[Jimbuna]

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Winston Churchill

[Eisenwurst]

"There's many a man with a two door garage that's only got a bicycle inside."

Jo from the 1970's British sitcom "Man about the house."

[Jimbuna]

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one."
-Andrew Johnson

[TarJak]

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

Edmund Barton

[Jimbuna]

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Winston Churchill

[Platapus]

Modern women. They've been like that all down through the ages - Col Tom Edwards

[u crank]

"Once there was only dark. If you ask me, the light is winning."

-Rust Cohle

[Jimbuna]

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
―Samuel Johnson, as quoted by James Boswell, 1775

[krashkart]

"Have a plan to kill everyone you meet." - Jimmy Carter


Edit: Or maybe it was John F. Kennedy? :hmm2:

[Sailor Steve]

"Children need models rather than critics."
―Joseph Joubert

[Jimbuna]

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Winston Churchill

[TarJak]

“I always walk with a one iron in a thunderstorm because not even God can hit a one iron” – Lee Trevino

[Sailor Steve]

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."
―Joseph Joubert

[Jimbuna]

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should be not victory, but progress."
―Joseph Joubert

(One of my true all-time favorites)

[Jimbuna]

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Winston Churchill

[Platapus]

"I've found that evil usually triumphs...unless good is very, very careful" - Dr. Leonard McCoy

[TG626]

"I've found that evil usually triumphs...unless good is very, very careful" - Dr. Leonard McCoy

+1...

[Jimbuna]

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
-Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893), British theologian and classicist

[Jimbuna]

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
―Helen Keller

[Geno_Mariner]

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
-H.G. Wells-

[Platapus]

There are two general rules for success in this world

1. Never tell anyone everything you know
2.

[Jimbuna]

There are two general rules for success in this world

1. Never tell anyone everything you know
2.

Always great to see the gooduns even if more than once :):yeah:

[Platapus]

Its an oldie but moldy. :D

[Jimbuna]

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"I think between us, Bill Clinton and I have settled any lingering myths about the brilliance of Rhodes Scholars"
―Kris Kristofferson

[Alex]

http://b8.eu.icdn.ru/c/compdrag/6/36631846yXC.jpg

[vienna]

I really can't pick and choose from all my favorite quotes (although, the one in my sig is right up there), so I'd like to give a link to a page full of interesting quotes. There is a long running series in the US titled "Criminal Minds". The series is about a group of FBI agents who form the "Behavioral Analysis Unit". They are criminal profilers who try to solve crimes such as serial killings, terrorism, etc. At the beginning and the end of every episode, one of the characters is heard giving a quote from some source such as politics, literature, science and many other places. I don't know who the person(s) is/are who find the qutoes, but some are really very interesting:


http://agoldoffish.wordpress.com/criminal-minds-opening-and-closing-quotes/


<O>

[Jimbuna]

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic."
―Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

[Sailor Steve]

“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”
—Lao-Tzu

[Jimbuna]

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Winston Churchill

[Platapus]

"Free people are not equal, and equal people are not free" - Lawrence W. Reed

or to put it another way

"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive." -Thomas Mann"

[GT182]

The 2 quotes in my Sig always stick in my head. Think about them as they are very true. ;)

[TarJak]

The 2 quotes in my Sig always stick in my head. Think about them as they are very true. ;)

Given that Tapatalk users can't see them that'll be difficult until I get to a PC.

[Jimbuna]

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order."
—John V. Lindsay

[Sailor Steve]

"America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts."
—James Madison

[Jimbuna]

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Winston Churchill

[Mush Martin]

Life, is not about playing good cards, its about playing a bad hand well.

John Steinbeck

[Sailor Steve]

"OMGMUSHISALIVE!"
-Me

[Jimbuna]

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. The Law appointing Chaplains establishes a religious worship for the national representatives, to be performed by Ministers of religion, elected by a majority of them; and these are to be paid out of the national taxes. Does not this involve the principle of a national establishment, applicable to a provision for a religious worship for the Constitution as well as of the representative Body, approved by the majority, and conducted by Ministers of religion paid by the entire nation?"
—James Madison, protesting the creation of Congressional chaplains at taxpayer expense.

[ReallyDedPoet]

"OMGMUSHISALIVE!"
-Me


: ) : )

[Mush Martin]

:hmm2:

"The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated".
Leonid Brezhnev

:sunny:

[Jimbuna]

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

Winston Churchill

[ReallyDedPoet]

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

- Albert Einstein

[Sailor Steve]

:hmm2:

"The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated".
Leonid Brezhnev

:sunny:
If he said that, he stole it from Mark Twain. But then, Twain was misquoted. What Samuel L. Clemens actually said was "The report of my death was an exaggeration."

[Mush Martin]

If he said that, he stole it from Mark Twain. But then, Twain was misquoted. What Samuel L. Clemens actually said was "The report of my death was an exaggeration."


Golf is the best way to ruin a perfectly good walk:sign_yeah:

[Sailor Steve]

"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know."
—Andre Maurois

[Jimbuna]

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
—Margaret Mead

[Jimbuna]

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Winston Churchill

[STEED]

If jim could post 1000 posts a day the rest of us need not bother and off to the pub we go. :DL


Copyrights STEED Plc

[TarJak]

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

[STEED]

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

And if you want your country run into the ground look what Thatcher did.

BossMark.

[Jimbuna]

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

Marilyn Monroe

[Sailor Steve]

“An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.”
—Bryant H. McGill

[Platapus]

"We can only have a victory in the fight against terror if we don't undermine our common values. It can never be a victory, a credible victory, over terrorists if we give up our values: Democracy, rule of law, and individual rights." Wolfgang Schuessel

[TarJak]

We're not searching for a needle in a haystack, we're trying to determine where the haystack is - Air Marshall Mark Binskin talking about the search for the wreckage of MH370

[Jimbuna]

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
-Robert McCloskey

[Sailor Steve]

"Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice."
-H. L. Mencken

[Jimbuna]

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie in his place."
-H. L. Mencken

[Jimbuna]

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Winston Churchill

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Tangle within tangle, plot and counter-plot, ruse and treachery, cross and double cross, true agent, false agent, double agent, gold and steel, the bomb, the dagger and the firing party, were interwoven in many a texture so intricate as to be incredible and yet true. ~ Winston Churchill

The enemy must not know where I intend to give battle. For if he does not know where I intend to give battle he must prepare in a great many places. And when he prepares in a great many places, those I have to fight in any one place will be few. And when he prepares everywhere he will be weak everywhere. - Sun Tzu

[Sailor Steve]

"It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."
-H. L. Mencken

[Jimbuna]

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

“'My country, right or wrong' is something no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case."
-H. L. Mencken

[Jimbuna]

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Winston Churchill

[Kremmen]

"You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him."

Robert A. Heinlein

[Mush Martin]

There are ten million ways of falling down, there's really only one way to get back up.

(heck I don't know and couldn't say it might even have been an original
it might have been stolen unremembered in the distant past or it might
have been a paraphrasing of Arthur C. Clarke)

M

[Jimbuna]

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"Remorse: Regret that one waited so long to do it."
-H. L. Mencken

[Jimbuna]

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"Something which everybody accepts as the gospel truth is inevitably false."
-H. L. Mencken

[Eisenwurst]

"I'm just going out for cigarettes."

Anonymous.

[Kremmen]

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in
a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly
used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW--What a ride!!!"
-Stuart Wilde-

[Platapus]

A friend will come out at 0300 to bail you out of jail
A best friend will be sitting next to you saying "man that was so cool!" :D

[Jimbuna]

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it."
—H. L. Mencken

[Aktungbby]

Winston Churchill: "Enemy submarines are to be called U-boats. The term "submarine" is to be reserved for Allied underwater vessels. U-boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs."

[STEED]

Berlin is the testicle of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin....Nikita Khrushchev

:har:

[Eisenwurst]

"The thicker the hay, the easier the mowing."

Alaric the Goth* circa 410 AD, responding to Roman attempts to intimidate him by boasting of the size of their army.

* Sacked Rome twice, and believed by some academics to be the basis for the "King Arthur" legends.



@ STEED - Great quote by Khrushchev, I remember him banging on the table with his shoe at the U.N.

[Friscobay]

''There's only two things more beautiful than a good gun..A Swiss watch, or a woman from anywhere''..........

Cherry Valance [ John Ireland ] ''Red River'', 1948.

[Sailor Steve]

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
—H. L. Mencken

[Jimbuna]

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

“There is always an easy solution to every human problem – neat, plausible and wrong.”
—H. L. Mencken

[Jimbuna]

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right."
—H. L. Mencken

[Jimbuna]

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

“Well a ship will always be safe in the harbor...But that is not what ships are for.”
—Merc4ulfate, Subsim member

[Rilder]

"Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my Opinion be able to preserve our Language, and even our Government will become precarious." -Benjamin Franklin Regarding German immigrants 1753.

Sounds familiar to some arguments these days. :O:

[Sailor Steve]

"If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind."
—John Stuart Mill

[Jimbuna]

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Winston Churchill

[TarJak]

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

William S. Burroughs

[Jimbuna]

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
—William Morrow

[fireftr18]

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
—William Morrow

I'm usually told I'm full of something. :D

[Jimbuna]

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."
—Michel de Montaigne

[fireftr18]

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. 'Ernest Hemingway'

[Platapus]

"I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life.... and that is why I succeed.? - Michael Jordan

[Jimbuna]

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Winston Churchill

[Platapus]

“Well a ship will always be safe in the harbor...But that is not what ships are for.”
—Merc4ulfate, Subsim member

(clearing my throat in that oh so annoying manner of mine)

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for" William Shedd 1820-1894

:D

[Sailor Steve]

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for" William Shedd 1820-1894

:D
Thank you for the correction. I was unaware of the original quote (obviously). Now updated in my personal Quotes collection. :sunny:

On the other hand, yet again there is not positive attribution, as in when he said it, what the ocassion was, or where he wrote it. I hate that.

[Sailor Steve]

“To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.”
—Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg [1772-1801])

[Jimbuna]

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Winston Churchill

[TarJak]

Sometimes you Win and sometimes you Learn.- Anonymous

[Jimbuna]

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Winston Churchill

[Mittelwaechter]

There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours: my occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an "Independent Press"! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

John Swinton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Swinton_%28journalist%29) (1829–1901), Scottish-American journalist, newspaper publisher, and orator

[Gunsilnger]

Are movie quotes ok?

John Voight, as FDR.
" I like sub commanders. They have no time for bull...., and neither do I"

[Paulebaer1979]

"There is always something." Or in german: "Irgendwas ist ja immer." From my Sonarchief.

"Some day you´ll loose - some day the others will win." I don´t know who sayd this.

"There are two type of ships - subs and targets." I don´t know who sayd this.

[Sailor Steve]

"The well-being of democracies, regardless of their type and status, is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary."
—Jose Ortega y Gasset

[Jimbuna]

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his own enemy against oppression."
—Thomas Paine

[Sailor Steve]

"Society in every state is a blessing, but a government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
—Thomas Paine

[Jimbuna]

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Winston Churchill

[TarJak]

"The problem with internet quotes is that you cant always depend on their accuracy" -Abraham Lincoln, 1864

[Sailor Steve]

"The problem with internet quotes is that you cant always depend on their accuracy" -Abraham Lincoln, 1864
Seen that one many many times, usually with a picture of Benjamin Franklin.

[Jimbuna]

"The problem with internet quotes is that you cant always depend on their accuracy" -Abraham Lincoln, 1864

Abraham Lincoln 2012 :03:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611224/

[Jimbuna]

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"Democracy is not 'I am as good as you are', but 'You are as good as I am'."
—Theodore Parker

[Mittelwaechter]

"I'm just a guy who got asked to do something for his country by people at the highest level of government, and I did the best that I could."
James Mitchell, designer of the actual CIA torture program

[Jimbuna]

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Winston Churchill

[Platapus]

"Fascism should more accurately be named corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power."
-- Benito Mussolini

[Sailor Steve]

"It is fear that brought gods into the world"
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter

[Armistead]

"There are some people who always seem angry and continuously look for conflict. Walk away; The battle they are fighting isn't with you, it is with themselves."

~Unknown

[Armistead]

Often the following quote is accredited to Thomas Jefferson, although he probably didn't say it or exactly say it.

"“The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.”

It does seem we are governed by a small elite, people that think they know better how to handle our business. Are we becoming a nation that thinks we best govern ourselves by letting others govern us?

What does it mean to govern ourselves today?

[Sailor Steve]

"Moderation in all things, including moderation."
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter

[Jimbuna]

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Winston Churchill

[Paulebaer1979]

I guess this quote is well known and posted in one of the first pages, but it´s very nice:

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

[Jimbuna]

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"One good turn deserves another."
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter

[Platapus]

"I'm just a guy who got asked to do something for his country by people at the highest level of government, and I did the best that I could."
James Mitchell, designer of the actual CIA torture program

Might as well group some together to save space...

"The United States is committed to the worldwide elimination of torture and we are leading this fight by example." 26 June 2003

"On United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the United States reaffirms its commitment to the worldwide elimination of torture." June 26, 2005

"We do not torture." 7 Nov 2005

George W. Bush.

[Platapus]

"I wish we actually said those things people think we said."

Winston Churchill talking to Thomas Jefferson on the Internet. :D

[Jimbuna]

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

“We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping.”
—Persian proverb

[Paulebaer1979]

"There are 10 types of people: Those who understand binary numbers and the others." - I don´t know who told this.

[Sailor Steve]

I don´t know who told this.
Neither do I, but I believe it's taken from a much older saying: "There are three types of people in the world: Those who can count and those who can't."

[flatsixes]

Deos fortioribus adesse.
(The gods are on the side of the stronger.)
- Tacitus, Histories

[vienna]

“I think, from all I can learn, that heaven has the better climate, but hell has the better company.”

Benjamin Wade

[Jimbuna]

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

“The wise man speaks because he has something to say, the fool because he has to say something.”
—Commonly attributed to Plato, but there is no direct source

[Jimbuna]

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
—Plato

[Sailor Steve]

"Do not forbid that which you lack the power to prohibit."
—Plato

[Jimbuna]

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."
—Laurens van der Post

[Jimbuna]

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Winston Churchill

[Platapus]

"Do not forbid that which you lack the power to prohibit."
—Plato

One of my favourites.. especially in the context of US foreign policy.

[Platapus]

Whenever I watch TV and I see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I would love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff. - Mariah Carey, Pop Singer

[Sailor Steve]

One of my favourites.. especially in the context of US foreign policy.
I always looked at it more in the context of drug laws.

[Sailor Steve]

"Realism is in how you play, not in the game settings."
—Rockin Robbins, Subsim member

[fireftr18]

"Realism is in how you play, not in the game settings."
—Rockin Robbins, Subsim member

I like it. I think I'll use it next fire training. :up:

[Jimbuna]

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

“Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.”
—Will Rogers

[flatsixes]

I shouted out 'Who killed the Kennedys!'
When after all, it was you and me.
-M Jagger/K Richards

A "favorite" only in the sense that, after all these years, that lyric still haunts me.

[Paulebaer1979]

" Life is a game like bullsh**, but the grafic effects are superb."

Or in german:

"Leben ist ein Sche**spiel - aber die Grafik ist geil."

I don´t know where or when i heard this the first time.

[Jimbuna]

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

Nicola Abbagnano

[Sailor Steve]

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
—Unknown, commonly attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt

[Jimbuna]

When they asked George Washington for his ID, he just took out a quarter.

Stephen Wright.

[Sailor Steve]

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
—Bertrand Russell

[Platapus]

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. - Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President

[Sailor Steve]

"Dan Quayle - best 'blond' joke of the '80s."
-Me

[Jimbuna]

I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!'

Bruce Baum

[Platapus]

Way before we had Rumsfield's known unknowns, we had Danforth

We are not ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur. - Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President

[TarJak]

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. -Unknown but attributed frequently to Mark Twain

[Sailor Steve]

"A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer."
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Letter 87.

[Jimbuna]

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

Ellen DeGeners.

[BossMark]

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[Sailor Steve]

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.”
—George Bernard Shaw, The World, November 15, 1893

[Jimbuna]

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

[Jimbuna]

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

[Sailor Steve]

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
—Beverly Sills

[u crank]

"So many chances to die, so many interesting stories for our grandchildren."

Betonov, SubSim member.

[Platapus]

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Who are you kidding. Leonard Nimoy said that!

[Platapus]

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word I say."

Oscar Wilde

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

“He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.” Groucho Marx

“I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.” Groucho Marx


"Politics is like an oil spill, it makes a huge mess of everything. It gets cleaned up eventually but there's always some residue left over sometimes for years to come." ~Me

[Jimbuna]

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

[Sailor Steve]

"Knowledge someone believes he has is no knowledge, but 100% belief. Knowledge must be not believed, but known."
—Skybird, Subsim member