Your Favorite Quotes - Page 48

Jimbuna · 04-22-14, 04:06 AM

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 · 04-22-14, 11:04 AM

“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 · 04-22-14, 11:31 AM

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

Sailor Steve · 04-22-14, 12:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paulebaer1979

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 · 04-22-14, 01:02 PM

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

vienna · 04-22-14, 01:04 PM

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

Benjamin Wade

Jimbuna · 04-23-14, 05:36 AM

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

Winston Churchill

Sailor Steve · 04-23-14, 07:44 AM

“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 · 04-24-14, 06:53 AM

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

Winston Churchill

Sailor Steve · 04-24-14, 11:43 AM

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

Sailor Steve · 04-25-14, 01:39 PM

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

Jimbuna · 04-26-14, 04:52 AM

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Winston Churchill

Sailor Steve · 04-26-14, 10:53 AM

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

Jimbuna · 04-28-14, 07:17 AM

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

Winston Churchill

Platapus · 04-28-14, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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

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

04-22-14, 04:06 AM	#706
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,675 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years. Winston Churchill __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

04-22-14, 11:04 AM	#707
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	“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 __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

04-22-14, 01:04 PM	#711
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,718 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	“I think, from all I can learn, that heaven has the better climate, but hell has the better company.” Benjamin Wade __________________ __________________________________________________ __

04-23-14, 05:36 AM	#712
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,675 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. Winston Churchill __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

04-23-14, 07:44 AM	#713
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	“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 __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

04-22-14, 11:31 AM	#708
Paulebaer1979 Planesman Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 185 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	"There are 10 types of people: Those who understand binary numbers and the others." - I don´t know who told this.

04-22-14, 01:02 PM	#710
flatsixes Weps Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Virginia Posts: 362 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Deos fortioribus adesse. (The gods are on the side of the stronger.) - Tacitus, Histories

04-24-14, 06:53 AM	#714
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,675 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator. Winston Churchill __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

04-24-14, 11:43 AM	#715
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." —Plato __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

04-25-14, 01:39 PM	#716
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	"Do not forbid that which you lack the power to prohibit." —Plato __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

04-26-14, 04:52 AM	#717
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,675 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. Winston Churchill __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

04-26-14, 10:53 AM	#718
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right." —Laurens van der Post __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

04-28-14, 07:17 AM	#719
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,675 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. Winston Churchill __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!