Famous Quotes That You Like

[caz]

Napoleon:

"It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry."

[caz]

And:

"He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought."

[caz]

Churchill again: "Sorry about the long speech, I didn't have time to prepare a short one." (or something like that)

[c.d.]

"War is hell"

General William Tecumseh Sherman

c.d.

[jason_c]

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."


Teddy Roosevelt

[Abby Normal]

"Put the devil on the other side, and I will fight him"-Joyce Gracie (MMA pioneer)

[Abby Normal]

Yep, Churchill.

Chruchill rules!

"Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room."

[Jason]

the ugly quote was directed to Bessie Braddock, former labour party MP.

think they also had another ding dong along the lines of :

BB- if you were my husband i would lace your tea with arsenic

WC- if you were my wife i would drink it !

[Robert]

Yep, Churchill.

[Errata]

He also said something like, "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

Churchill?

[Robert]

He also said something like, "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

[kensei]

Winston Churchill, upon being told, "You, sir, are drunk!"

"And you, madam, are ugly, but I shall be sober in the morning."

[Limehouse]

"I may be lying in the gutter, but I'm looking at the stars".

(or something similar) Oscar Wilde

And my very favourite: George Bernard Shaw was apparently prospositioned by a famous lady of the time who pleased with him to have a baby with her.
She told him something like "with your brains, and my looks, think what a child we will have" to which he replied "but madam, supposing the child had your brains and my looks?"

[mariab]

Abigail Folger was one of the Tate house victims. Heiress to the Folger's coffee fortune.

Right.

Agree with Kensei and Errata, and JFK pronounced it "Ick bin ein Berliner". :-)

[Errata]

How about the two greatest flubbed lines in American history?

"Ich bin ein Berliner" - JFK
and
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for Mankind" - Neil Armstrong