Favorite Quotes

[J-Mann]

Post your favorite quote or quotes here.  One of mine:

"The day shall come in which our sacred Troy, and Priam, and all the people over whom spear-bearing Priam rules, shall perish all." --

 -- "The Iliad" as quoted by Scipio Aemilianus

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Everyone has the right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege - Josef Stalin (NO, I DON'T LIKE HIM, I JUST LIKE THE QUOTE)

Remember, no matter how much the idiots outnumber you by, they're still idiots - Daria

[nclib]

"Conservatives' interest in life begins at conception and ends at birth." -- Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)

[Jake]

President Kennedy's-"Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country."

President Reagan's-"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
&
His goodbye letter-
"I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead."

Of course Winston Churchill's-We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."


 

[Vincent]

"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes."
--Jack Handey

[J. J.]

One from me is, "Gentlemen, I'm a complete bastard, but I have the honesty to admit it."  It was actually said during a public meeting.

[WMS]

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
       
Edmund Burke
Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797)

[PBrunsel]

"No public figure can be just a little crooked."
- Herbert Hoover

[Keystone Phil]

One of my favorite quotes was from a very quiet man. There's no political or deep meaning to this quote but I've always found this man who had little to say so interesting.

"You lose." - Calvin Coolidge

[King]

"is that Man or Women
if Man that ok &
if Women that ok"

-John

[Keystone Phil]

"is that Man or Women
if Man that ok &
if Women that ok"

-John

Truer words have never been spoken.

[nclib]

"I hate guy people. But I pray for them." - John

[J-Mann]

One of my favorite quotes was from a very quiet man. There's no political or deep meaning to this quote but I've always found this man who had little to say so interesting.

"You lose." - Calvin Coolidge

This is from Jon Stewart's "America: The Book":

"Silent Cal"

Coolidge still ranks as the quietest president of all time.  Famously, a woman once approached him, saying, "I bet my friend I could get you to say more than two words," to which Coolidge wittily replied, "F*** you."

[Wakie]

"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican party!  An elephant and a fat white guy who is threatened by change!"

-Peter, The Family Guy

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money.” attributed to Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (R-IL) (1896 - 1969) by a reporter, but not actually said by him.

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"I hate guy people. But I pray for them." - John

Look.....NCLib made a funny..hahahaha I love that quote.

Some of my favorite quotes :


"I smell a rat." - Patrick Henry

"It is history that teaches us to hope." - Robert E. Lee

"I could stand on one border of your state and piss across it to the other side." - Governor Zebulon Vance of N.C. in a speech to a senator from Rhode Island while he himself was a senator.

[Gabu]

See my signature.

[Platypus]

"If you were my husband, I'd put poison in your tea!"
"If you were my wife, I'd drink it"-Churchill.


Thats all I can think of atm.

[Gabu]

"If you were my husband, I'd put poison in your tea!"
"If you were my wife, I'd drink it"-Churchill.


Thats all I can think of atm.

Here's one from Churchill I especially like:

Woman: "Winston Churchill, you are drunk."
Churchill: "Drunk I may be, madam, but you are ugly, and in the morning, I will be sober."

[CARLHAYDEN]

One of my favorite quotes was from a very quiet man. There's no political or deep meaning to this quote but I've always found this man who had little to say so interesting.

"You lose." - Calvin Coolidge

I think this was his response to the woman who told him she bet her friend that she could ge Coolidge to say MORE than two words.

[CARLHAYDEN]

My all time favorite, from good old Patrick Henry:

Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!


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[A18]

"The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper." - Thomas Jefferson

 "Only a mediocre person is always at his best." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself." - Milton Friedman

"It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil." - Friedrich A. Hayek

"Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - John Adams

[qwerty]

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. - Richard Nixon on August 9, 1974

[John Dibble]

"Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change." - Confucius

"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong." - John G. Riefenbaker

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke

"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." - Probably not Arthur C. Clarke

"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." - H. L. Mencken

"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant." - John Stuart Mill "On Liberty"

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance." - Confucius

"Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate -- and quickly." - Lazarus Long

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations." - Winston Churchill

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little." - Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world." - Joel Barker

"Weapons are the tools of violence;
all decent men detest them.
Weapons are the tools of fear;
a decent man will avoid them
except in the direst necessity
and, if compelled, will use them
only with the utmost restraint.

Peace is his highest value.
If the peace has been shattered,
how can he be content?

His enemies are not demons,
but human beings like himself.
He doesn't wish them personal harm.
Nor does he rejoice in victory.
How could he rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?

He enters a battle gravely,
with sorrow and with great compassion,
as if he were attending a funeral." - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power." - Lao-Tzu

"If all people were righteous no one would need to be brave." - Angesilaus II

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages." - Adam Smith

"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 Russel

[JohnFKennedy]

One of my favorite quotes was from a very quiet man. There's no political or deep meaning to this quote but I've always found this man who had little to say so interesting.

"You lose." - Calvin Coolidge

This is from Jon Stewart's "America: The Book":

"Silent Cal"

Coolidge still ranks as the quietest president of all time.  Famously, a woman once approached him, saying, "I bet my friend I could get you to say more than two words," to which Coolidge wittily replied, "F*** you."

That book is great, my aunt and uncle sent me it for my birthday, been reading it a bit, it is hilarious.