Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Pigslilspaz on January 23, 2011, 03:35:09 AM
-
Post some of your favorite quotes here.
The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.
— General Chuck Yeager, USAF, describing his first confrontation with a Me262.
Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman.
— Colonel Erich 'Bubi' Hartmann, GAF.
-
post deleted
-
“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
"If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off." Chuck Yeager
"Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own." Chuck Yeager
"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done." Chuck Yeager
And my favorite: l
l
l
l
l
\/
-
golly gee - he must be a churchill fan :P
Any quote about Marines works :P
-
"The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others."
Adolf Hitler
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
Adolf Hitler
-
"sir, we are surrounded!" yells a marine
"Good" replies Chesty Puller "now we can attack in every direction!"
or
"NOT ONE STEP BACKWARDS" - Josef Stalin
-
"In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it."- Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
"If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there."- Marshall Geogi Zhukov
"Just drive down that road, until you get blown up"- General George Patton
-
"Nuts"
-
"You're never beaten until you admit it." - General George S. Patton
-
Operation Barbarossa would make the world "Hold its Breath" - Adolf Hitler
It may have been a success if it were not for the pesky Commies :old:
-
"My God, what have we done?" - Captain Robert Lewis
-
"When being shot at, Shoot back" -Rommel
"One observation is worth 1,000 reports" -Patton
"AAA-O" =anything, anywhere, any time bar nothing -Colonel Harry Albert "Paddy" Flint
You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." - Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
-
Not from WWII but attributed to a Marine Corps Sgt Maj during the Siege of Khe sahn combat base, "You, You, and You......Panic the Rest of ya Follow me..... :salute
-
"It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army" -Josef Stalin
"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed." - General Norman Cota: Omaha Beach, 1944
"I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind." - General George S. Patton
"Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders."
- Attributed to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel,
on how he selects officers for staff and command. (Has to be one of my favorites)
"The Pope! how many divisions has he got?"
- Stalin
In 1935, a French visitor asked Soviet leader Josef Stalin if he thought Pope Pius XI might prove to be an ally.
"Tell my son Josef that he will meet my divisions in eternity."
- Reply from the Pope when he heard the story years later.
-
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking". George S. Patton
-
golly gee - he must be a churchill fan :P
I listed them a while back on the forum (don't remember why), so I just went back to that thread and copied them.
And not all of them are Churchill's.
-
“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
"If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off." Chuck Yeager
"Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own." Chuck Yeager
"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done." Chuck Yeager
And my favorite: l
l
l
l
l
\/
wow, couldnt wait for this one to post could you.......................... .. :neener:
-
"Onward we stagger, and if the tanks come, god help the tanks"
Where you at USRanger to tell everyone who said this :rock
-
Col. William O. Darby ;)
-
wow, couldnt wait for this one to post could you.......................... .. :neener:
Which one are you refereeing to?
-
Which one are you refereeing to?
The entire post.
-
"We Few, We lucky Few, we band of brothers. For he who today sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother."
-
"We're not lost, Private... we're in Normandy."- Dick Winters Was said in the series not sure if it was actually said.
-
"We Few, We lucky Few, we band of brothers. For he who today sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother."
Great quote, but I'm pretty sure Shakespeare didn't fight in WWII.
-
The entire post.
oh no, I just took it from the previous post in thins kind of thread.
-
Great quote, but I'm pretty sure Shakespeare didn't fight in WWII.
Smart, I relized it was shakespear I found it on squad website lol
-
Great quote, but I'm pretty sure Shakespeare didn't fight in WWII.
Shakyspear never fought in any wars :banana:
-
" I would rather be the hammer than the anvil".
Erwin Rommel
-
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
- General George S. Patton, Jr
"Nuts"
- General MacAuliffe (when asked to surrender during the Battle of the Bulge, 1944)
-
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
George S Patton.
I fear all we have done is awake. A sleeping giant and filled him with terrible resolve .
Admiral Yamamoto.
Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
George S Patton.
Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.
Major. Gregory Boyington
"The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the
Air Force has accomplished during the war."
- Chesty Puller in a letter to his wife while in Korea
"Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines". "
Major General Chesty Puller, USMC - while on a Battalion inspection.
"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of
us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time"
- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC
-
On radio 1220, WKRS-AM in 1983
ROX: "On your very last flight...your bird is on fire...no where to land...what was your thought when you realized you had been shot down?"
Lt. Col. Greg Boyington: "Well...................you've had it now you "S.O.B!*"
(* He said the actual wordy-dirty)