Favorite Quotes

[Kanewpadle]

“Don’t look back, something might be gaining on you”.
Satchel Paige

“The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it“.
Albert Einstein

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits “.
Albert Einstein

 

[kmyers]

"For not by numbers of men, nor by measure of body, but by valor of soul is war to be decided."

Belisarius.

Considering how often the battles he commanded armies in and the long and sometimes huge odds against him for decades very true, especially during the Siege of Rome 5,000 Romans vs 30,000 Goths and he won.

 

[swsig]

Here's mine, by noted philosopher A.E. Neuman:

 

[Warren Sear]

"Quiet, numbskulls! I'm broadcasting."

Moe Howard

 

[Bob L]

"One man with courage makes a majority" — Andrew Jackson

 

[kmyers]

"Quiet, numbskulls! I'm broadcasting."

Moe Howard

Probably after that was a you chowderheads.

 

[K-22]

“Don’t look back, something might be gaining on you”.
Satchel Paige

“The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it“.
Albert Einstein

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits “.
Albert Einstein

“We have found the enemy, and, he is us”
Pogo

 

[BC38]

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"
- Sir Edmund Burke

"Life is hard, but it is even harder if you're stupid"
- Marion Morris

 

[crazyphil]

"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the
support of Paul." George Bernard Shaw

"I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them." Jimmy Hoffa

"We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can." Will Rogers

 

[RobertJ.]

Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace; when he shuts his lips he is considered perceptive.

Solomon

 

[kmyers]

A favorite quote from both of us here, movie or otherwise from a movie we both love.

“Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good. That honor, courage and virtue mean everything ; that power and money … money and power mean nothing. That good always triumphs over evil. And I want you to remember this…. that love….true love never dies ! Remember that boy … remember that. Doesn’t matter if it is true or not, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in…… got that ?”

Hub McCann's speech from the movie Secondhand Lions. Although a bit corn ball always a fine one and worth remembering because it is true.

 

[kaaskop49]

"I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."

Darth Vader in "The Empire Strikes Back."

"Young man, there is nothing in life that can be reduced to a slogan."

Actor Henry Darrow, playing a gangster in the flick "Badge 373."

 

[crazyphil]

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and
remove all doubt." Abraham Lincoln

 

[Old_Cop]

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus

If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor.
Obama

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.
Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels

 

[Bill 76]

Go head to head with the thing,
Stand there, toe to toe, and slug it out.
Work Hard!
Give it everything you’ve got!
Get the job done!
But if it doesn’t work out,
Be graceful,
Don’t blame somebody else.
Don’t hate yourself.
You did your best.
Move on.

 

[ContinentalOp]

"I drank what?!" Socrates

“Sure I know what love is - it's what goes on between a man and a .45 that won't jam.” Al Goddard, “Appointment with Danger”

A little more seriously...

"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." Attributed to Albert Einstein

"A warrior lives a life of contradiction, for he strives to create a world in which he is no longer needed." Phil Messina

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." Sherlock Holmes

 

[ACORN]

“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never. In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.”
Sir Winston Churchill

 

[bill2000]

"Do not wait for orders from headquarters. Mount up, and ride to the sound of the guns." One of Napoleon's generals ordering his men to Waterloo.

 

[SC_Mike]

 

[Gaffer]

"No man's life , liberty or property is safe while the Legislature is in session." Mark Twain

 

[misswired]

Not a single person asked me if I could run faster in my new tennis shoes today.

Being an adult is stupid.

 

[Donn]

"Never argue with an idiot in public. People passing by won't know which one of you is the idiot." Unknown.

 

[federali]

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Sun Tzu

 

[Inusuit]

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. Viktor Frankl - Holocaust Survivor

 

[tlawler]

Walk softly and carry a big stick.
-TR

 

[kmyers]

An unverified one.

"What the **** was that?!"

The last words of the mayor of Hiroshima.

 

[sheepdawg]

"Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours."

Yogi Berra

 

[crazyphil]

"Where did all those xxxxxxx indians come from?" Col. George Custer

 

[kmyers]

Yogi Berra priceless on the AFLAC commercial.

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Even the duck walks out of the barber shop shaking its head in disbelief. LOL

 

[URIT]

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everyone stands around reloading. - Thomas Jefferson

WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's peace. -Unknown

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family. - J. Edgar Hoover

Get your facts straight, then you can distort them as much as you please. - Mark Twain