Favourite Quotes

[Bianca_Sommerland]

It's probably been done but I couldn't find it and I was curious. I love a good quote and I find someones favourites say a lot about them. I tend to quote Mark Twain, I thought he was the perfect mix of satire and intelligence. I also like some of Churchill's quotes.

But by far my favorite is:

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

 

[oggbashan]

Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss...
Marlowe: Faustus

 

[Tio_Narratore]

"If you leave your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it."

-William T. Orton

 

[oggbashan]

An nescis. mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis?

Don't you know, my son, how little wisdom rules the world?

Count Oxenstierna (1583 -1654) letter to his son in 1648

Og's translation: Don't you know, my son, that idiots run governments?

 

[Tio_Narratore]

"What do I think of Western Civilization?
I think it would be a good idea."

-Mohandas Gandhi

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

So what crawled up your ass?

~Me~

 

[Safe_Bet]

"If it has tires or testicles, it's gonna give you trouble."

-- Lauretta Hannon, The Cracker Queen

 

[voluptuary_manque]

"I swear, modern conservatism is the only political movement in history made up entirely of people with little birdies flying out of their ears."--Erik Alterman

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers
~ Shakespeare from Henry VI~

 

[DesertPirate]

If I were an idiot and then if I were a Congressman, but I repeat myself. - Mark Twain



So appropriate when thinking of the "Thundering Herd of Dumbass" formerly known as Congress. - me

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

There's a wonderful quote by Winston Churchill made at a party in London. It comes in an exchage the Dutches Gotrocks or someone due to his excessive drinking. It went...

Dutches Gotrocks: Sir you are drunk!
Churchill: Maday you are ugly. Tomorrow I will be sober but you will still be ugly.


ROFL

 

[soliloquist]

There are both of the ones in my sig, plus many others from Terry Pratchett's books. However, my all time favorites:

"You know, Frederick fucking Chopin?" ~Doc Holliday in Tombstone

and

"I got two guns, one for each of ya" ~also Doc

 

[Boota]

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
--Marcus Aurelius



Some people may be better armed than others, but a great quote just the same.

 

[TheEarl]

Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Nancy Astor: “If you were my husband, I would put poison in your coffee.”
Churchill: “Madam, if I were your husband I would drink it.”

If you are going to go through hell, keep going.

And finally: It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The Earl

 

[Handley_Page]

There's a wonderful quote by Winston Churchill made at a party in London. It comes in an exchage the Dutchess Gotrocks or someone due to his excessive drinking. It went...

Dutches Gotrocks: Sir you are drunk!
Churchill: Madam you are ugly. But Tomorrow, I will be sober.


ROFL

I think it was Bessie Braddock, a Labour MP of formidable type.

 

[oggbashan]

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Winston Churchill

He was replying to a Member of Parliament who criticised Churchill for praising the USSR's fight against Germany.

Og