The quotations thread

[dacdac]

I love Patton (greatest general of modern times) so here we go:

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

When a man is lying in a shell hole, if he just stays there all day, a German will get to him eventually. The hell with that idea. The hell with taking it. My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either.

I don't want to get any messages saying, "I am holding my position." We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living hell out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like s*** through a tin horn!

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Just drive down that road until you get blown up.-Instructions to reconnaissance troops

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood. Shoot them in the belly. When you put your hand into a bunch of goo that a moment before was your best friend's face, you'll know what to do.

Only a New Orleans pimp would carry a pearl-handled pistol. These are ivory.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. -Dave Barry

I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care. -Dave Barry

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. -Dave Barry

As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government. -Dave Barry

And the classic...

"Any opinion [Sasaki] gives on the matter is suspicious"--Crazed Rabbit

CR

[Quietus]

1) "Can you explain why blue looks blue?" - Francis Crick

2) "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind" - Redemption Song (live in Germany 1980) by Bob Marley.

3) "Only a fool, lean upon, lean upon his own misunderstanding, oh yeah." - Forever Loving Jah by Bob Marley.

4) "I am that I am, I am, I am, I am." - I Am That I Am by Peter Tosh.

[Caius]

Veni,Vidi,Vici.Gaius Julius Cesar

[ajaxfetish]

Well, in lieu of having a bunch of excellent quotations stored away in my mind or on a personal list somewhere, I'll just bust out my Franklin Day Planner and see what ones I like. Here goes.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy--Robert Louis Stevenson

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them--David Hume

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday--Don Marquis

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact--George Eliot

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly--Thomas Paine

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected--Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues

Getting people to like you is only the other side of liking them--Norman Vincent Peale

Ajax

[pevergreen]

Off the calander in front of me

I am never afraid of what I know - Anna Sewell
When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. - Woody Allen

[Beirut]

"Me fail English? That's unpossible."

Ralph Wiggum

[Louis VI the Fat]

Veni,Vidi,Vici. Gaius Julius Cesar

Vidi, Vici, Veni - I saw, I conquered, I came.


Louis VI the Fat.

[Randarkmaan]

Stalin (for all his brutality) does have some very good quotes/sayings:

"The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic"

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"

Rumored to be said after receiving a report about Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky's inappropriately large number of female lovers.

"Quantity is quality"
or
"Quantity has a quality all its own"

There are also some good ones from Warhammer 40k (the board game)

"There are some who question your right to order millions of people to death, what they do not understand is that you have no right to let those people live"

"A small mind is easily filled with faith"

"Blessed is the mind too small for doubt"

Ofcourse there are others, but I don't want to make a long post, now do I?