Famous Quotes That You Like

[Errata]

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

Churchill?

[Robert]

Yep, Churchill.

[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 !

[Abby Normal]

Yep, Churchill.

Chruchill rules!

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

[Abby Normal]

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

[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

[c.d.]

"War is hell"

General William Tecumseh Sherman

c.d.

[caz]

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

[caz]

And:

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

[caz]

Napoleon:

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

[Errata]

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. - Mae West

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great. - Cher

[Archaic]

“The past isn't dead. It isn't even past.” (William Faulkner)


Damn, I wish I'd said that!
Archaic

[Mayerling]

General Sherman (whose brother John was a prominent Senator from Ohio and Cabinet member and Presidential possibility) was frequently hounded to run for President like his pal Ulysses Grant had - and gave this superb denuncation in 1884:
"I'd be a fool, an ass, to start a political career at my time of life. If nominated I will not run; if elected I will not serve!"

[If only others thought that way!]

"Will it hurt?"
James Canham Read in 1894, when taken to the gallows to be hanged.

"What is an iceberg made of?"
Senator William Alden Smith to Fourth Officer Boxhall of the Titanic at the American hearings into the disaster in 1912. Boxhall, looking surprised for a moment, said "Ice!"

"You mound of turds stuffed in a silk stocking!!"
Emperor Napoleon I telling off his Foreign Secretary Prince Talleyrand in 1811. Talleyrand supposedly replied, after the Emperor left the room, "What a bad mannered man!"

"It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder!!"
Joseph Fouche remarking about the illegal trial and execution of the Duc de Enghien by order of Napoleon I in 1804. Fouche was right - horror at the political crime strengthened anti-Bonaparte feeling in Euope.

"No matter however you slice it, it is still baloney!"
Governor Al Smith of New York.

"I'm not Christ: I can't raise the dead!"
FDR in 1941 when creating his coallition cabinet to fight World War II as a unifier of the country. Someone suggested ex-President Hoover as Secretary of Commerce again, and this led to Roosevelt's remark about his unpopular predecessor.

"As a child I remember going to the circus and seeing the freakshows. And they are now here. Behold the "boneless wonder"!!"
Winston Churchill on the opposition bench in 1930 referring to a glaring Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.

"A modest man, with much to be modest about!"
Churchill again, now referring to Labor Party leader Clement Atlee (who later defeated and replaced Churchill as Prime Minister).

Jeff

[c.d.]

"Only the shallow know themselves"

Oscar Wilde

c.d.

[c.d.]

He took her down
to Chinatown
and showed her how to kick
the gong around

c.d.