"I'm just going out for cigarettes."

Anonymous.

"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-

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

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

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

the ultimate grasp of submersible propaganda!
 

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

:har:

"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.

''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.

"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

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

Winston Churchill

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

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Winston Churchill

"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

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