I’m a fan of good quotations.
Show me what you got!
Here’s a start:
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
Churchill
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I’m a fan of good quotations.
Show me what you got!
Here’s a start:
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
Churchill
I said this wonderful quote when my friend laughed at me when i said i will be of Messenger for a while as i'm getting lunch...
"Can't i have a ****** sandwich any more without my dietry habits being brought into question please"
p.s. I like that Churchill quote :)
My favourite one is in my sig.
"The point of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his."
-General George S. Patton
My sig quote is good, at least I think it is...
Well I just got a new sig quote.
Um, interesting? It doesn't show up.
Edit: oh, there it is ~:)
Dear me! I must be turning into a god!
Vespasian on his deathbed.
"As long as there are men there will be wars", from Albert Einstein. It's in my sig too.
I won't pretend to be a fan of the man speaking it, but 'He who does not believe in miracles isn't a realist' is the best quote ever.
"I am just going outside, and I may be some time."
And, from the same man (called on to surrender after being wounded in the Boer war) "I didn't come here to surrender, I came here to fight."
Yes, for schoolboy heroics you can't beat Titus Oates.
All time favorites...
"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
- Churchill
"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated."
-Oscar Wilde
"The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place. "
- Douglas Adams
"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."
- Thoreau
I have another one:
"History is kind to me, as I intend to write it."
I think it's one of Churchill, men that guy has many quotations, he must have said a lot.
Some chick to Churchill: If you were my husband I would poisen your tea.
Churchill: If you were my wife I would drink it ~:joker:
Another one:
Churchill to chick: would you sleep with me for 1.000.000 pounds
woman: sure!
Chuchill: and for 100?
woman: what the fork do you think I am?
Churchill: I know what you are, just asking the price ~:joker:
Not god's most chivalrous being, but boy is he gooooooooooood ~D
and no I am not frustrated with the opposite sex.
Haha, lol ~D
certainly good
The "chick" in question was Lady Astor, the first woman to take a seat in Parliament.Quote:
Some chick to Churchill: If you were my husband I would poisen your tea.
Churchill: If you were my wife I would drink it
She and Churchill didn't get on, it seems, since this one is also attributed to them:
Astor: "Winston, you are drunk"
Churchill "And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning I will be sober."
I might be wrong but I thought the one about the price was Bertrand Russell
Theseones are definitely good, but then Churchill realy dissed Astor then. ~:)
Though, what a situation would it be there then in that parliament. Quite a mess I sepose
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Originally Posted by English assassin
~:joker: ~:joker: What a guy! I'd kiss him on the mouth if I didn't have to dig him up first!
Kiss a dead half-rotten body... you rather then me lol ~;)
Ach ik heb wel een viezere wilde mossel gekraakt ~;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ottos
whahahhaha gaan we ennel kakelen
when your hate and anger turns itself against you, you must come to your senses and stop the destruction of the spiritial unity...
IT SUCKS DOESNT IT...yeah i know...just made that up
There's some great one's here, again, from Churchill http://www.houseoftoucans.com/True/True1.htmlQuote:
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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Perhaps the best Churchillian put-down occurred one evening when he was attending a more than usually dreary dinner. Churchill was being harangued by a young lady with a very strident voice about the state of the poor. Our hero had had a few sips of shandy, and, whilst not exactly as relaxed as a newt, found her voice, manner and views (she had probably never met a 'poor' person) decided he'd had enough.
"My dear," he leaned closer, "Your concern for the poor does you great credit. But are you really dedicated to the cause? For instance, if I were to offer you one million pounds to donate to any charity you chose, would you make love with me?"
She had no choice but to answer in the affirmative. Churchill's voice got rather louder; "Well would you sleep with me for a fiver?"
"Sir Winston! Just what do you think I am?"
The famous voice rose to full bellow; "Young lady, we've already established exactly what you are - now we're just haggling about the price."
The young lady left in a flood of tears and a London taxi, and the rest of the dinner passed in glorious peace
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Originally Posted by Fragony
Yes the guy had a neck fore nice quotes.
Like this one: History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston
This one is of Albert
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but WW IV will be fought with sticks and stones
Albert Einstein.
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Originally Posted by lugh
Hahahaha, this one is good at so many levels.
"I believe that who votes how in the party is unimportant. What is extremely important is who counts the votes and how they are recorded."
Good ol' Iosif Dzhughashvili. ~D I actually have a shortened version of this quote on my car.
On your car? How and where precisely?
btw Upxl, that one from Winston is good isn't it, I posted it too, some posts down.
“Everyone! It’s time for my one man show, Winston Churchill, we hardly knew ye. I’m Winston Churchill, would you like some tea? I would because I’m Winston Churchill. Would you like a crumpet? I would because I’m Winston Churchill. Would you like to wear knickers? I would because I’m Winston Churchill”
-Peter griffin. ~:cool:
Posted for all the churchill quotes :bounce:
On my hood, with a rusty nail. ~;pQuote:
Originally Posted by Ottos
It's a bumper sticker... I'm not that crazy. :mad:
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Originally Posted by Ottos
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btw Upxl, that one from Winston is good isn't it, I posted it too, some posts down
Sorry about that.
Oh, I don't mind that, I wouldn't have read whole thread neither. So don't you worry about that, it's ok.~:)
Shredder: You freaks have been a thorn in my side long enough. No one opposes the Shredder. And now I will have my revenge for our last encounter. Say farewell to each other -- while you still can.
Michelangelo: Oh yeah, Mr. Spikey-Pants? Well, you’re the one who should be saying....uh...farewell to, um... to yourself!
Raphael: Yeah, Mikey. That got 'im.
From TMNT
"I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the highest staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy however is for the very highest command; he has the temperament and nerves to deal with all situations. But whoever is stupid and industrious is a menace and must be removed immediately!"
General Baron Von Hammersteiner-Equord
Commander-in-Chief
The Reichswehr
Last Winston quote, although I can't dig up the source at the moment.
"You have won the lottery of life, you have been born British"
~:cheers:
Oh no. Cementing my fast growing reputation as the biggest pedant in the frontroom, "To be born British is to win first prize in the lottery of life" was Cecil Rhodes, not Winnie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prodigal
I will now crawl away in shame
Mother of all! Not only was the quote wrong, it was said by someone I've never heard of! :stupido2:
Cecil Rhodes a 19th centuary adventurer who set up De-Beers mining Corp. and conquered Zimbabwe (he renamed it Rhodesia) which he then gave as a present to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Empress of India.
I bet that impressed her.~D
Heh, remember that bit in Blackadder 2.
"Not just any stick, ma'am, when you throw it away....it comes back."
Man that's rough. Imagine being being beaten by someone called Cecil.Quote:
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
Would that be the one with Mistress Ploppy and her family as the gaolers? ..... classic ~DQuote:
Originally Posted by English assassin
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"Not just any stick, ma'am, when you throw it away....it comes back."
But it doesn’t stop there doesn’t it:
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"Oooh, that’s no good isn’t it, because when I throw something away, I don’t want them to come back!!!"