Your Favorite Quotes!

[MachFly]

“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.” By Winston Churchill

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference ” By Winston Churchill

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” By Winston Churchill

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” By Winston Churchill

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” By Winston Churchill

“I never worry about action, but only inaction.” By Winston Churchill

“If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.” By Winston Churchill

“If you are going through hell, keep going.” By Winston Churchill

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” By Winston Churchill

“It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.” By Winston Churchill

“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.” By Winston Churchill

“Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.” By Winston Churchill

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” By Winston Churchill

“Never, never, never give up.” By Winston Churchill

“’No comment’ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.” By Winston Churchill

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” By Winston Churchill

“One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!” By Winston Churchill

“Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” By Winston Churchill

“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.” By Winston Churchill

“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.” By Winston Churchill

“Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.” By Winston Churchill

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” By Winston Churchill

“The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.” By Winston Churchill

“The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.” By Winston Churchill

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.” By Winston Churchill

“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” By Winston Churchill

“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.” By Winston Churchill

“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.” By Winston Churchill

“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.” By Winston Churchill

“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.” By Winston Churchill

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” By Winston Churchill

“We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” By Winston Churchill

“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.” By Winston Churchill

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.” By Winston Churchill

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” By Winston Churchill





Will be back with no Churchill quotes soon....

[Simaril]

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. - Flannery O'Connor

[Simaril]

"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career." – George Bernard Shaw

[Simaril]

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
  - Kurt Vonnegut

[Simaril]

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
  - Alec Bourne

[Latrobe]

Freedom isn't free.
--Anonymous

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
--Josephus Daniels

Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
--Napoleon Bonaparte

Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking.
--Ferdinand Foch-- at the Battle of the Marne

[Treize69]

"Ihre ganze Ausbildung ist für das Nichts wenn eine Engel-Pisse in Ihrer Muskete." (All your training is for naught when an angel pisses in your musket)- Prussian military saying.

"The more I see of Man, the more I like my dog."- Frederick the Great

"Heavenly Father, graciously aid me this day; but if thou shouldst not be so disposed, lend not, at least, thy aid to those scoundrels, the enemy, but passively await the issue!" -Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau before the battle of Kesselsdorf, 15 Dec 1745

“If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks” -Frederick the Great

“You rogues, do you want to live for ever?”- Frederick the Great

"To secure peace is to prepare for war." -Karl Von Clausewitz

"It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past." -Karl Von Clausewitz

[DEECONX]

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

-Romans 8:28

[1Boner]

Reach down between my legs------------












-------ease the seat back.  (David Lee Roth)



The Sawyers are number one, the Sawyers are number one!!  (Papa Sawyer after winning the Texas BBQ championships in the Texas chainsaw massacre part2)


Its the meat! Its all about the meat!!  (Papa Sawyer)

[Serenity]

Another TV show quote, from the best show ever...

"When you can't run, you crawl. And when you can't do that, find someone to carry you."

[Dichotomy]

'Never run when you can walk, never walk when you can stand, never stand when you can sit, never sit when you can lay down' - The Pacific

Probably not 100% accurate but as close as I could recollect.

[danny76]

First John Stuart Mill quote I've ever seen on the boards,  nice.

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill

[Motherland]

'Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.' - Thomas Jefferson

'He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.' - Friedrich Nietzsche

'Ultima Ratio Regum'- The Final Argument of Kings- cast into French cannons under Louis XIV

[curry1]

"What the F*** was that"
Mayor of Hiroshima
8:16 am
August 6th 1945

[68ZooM]

" The Quality of a Man's Life is in Direct Proportion to his Commitment to Excellence Regardless of His chosen Endeavor "  My Father