It may look like salami, it may smell like salami, it may even taste like salami...but its rocket fuel!
-Jamie Hyneman

What you cannot enforce, do not command
-Socrates

"If I can't drink my bowl of coffee three times daily, then in my torment I will shrivel up like a piece of roast goat."
-- from J.S. Bach's Coffee Cantata

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.- despair.com

"Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home."


Herman Melville:arrgh!:

That must be where Napoleon got "Do not forbid that which you can not prevent."

Damn, those dead greek guys had it easy. Every thing they said, was the first time it was ever said. and they go down in history :rotfl:

"What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." - General John Sedgwick

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

Albert Einstein

Already quoted by me on page 4, post #68 http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...2&postcount=68

The difference being that your version is an oft-repeated but unsubstantiated one, and mine comes directly from an account from Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, printed in 1877.:p

Three of my favorite quotes are all from aerial combat.

"Speed is Life"

"Aerial gunnery is 10% aim and 90% luck"

"Mother, which can go higher, God or an airplane" - Luftwaffe Ace (105 kills) Günther Lützow as a child

I know, but it sounds better this way :know:
But i should have read the thread and mentioned what you did.

I can slash so hard I can crack the toilet.

That was a old one from a boss many moons ago. :lol:

"Things are more like they are now than they used to be."

"Nuts !" :D
and
"we're not retreating, we're simply advancing in another direction" <-- True :lol:!

I agree, that version is funnier. I just get my back up sometimes about accuracy, and I probably shouldn't.