Notable Historical Quotes... (3 Viewers)

[Scott]

“Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”




Herman Melville in Moby Dick.

 

[W T Allison II]

"Accept that some days you are the statute and other days the pigeon"--unknown.

 

[waynepoo]

''Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people''....... Author unknown.
Wayne.

 

[Scott]

"........I suppose French morality is not of that strait-laced description which is shocked at trifles."

Mark Twain

 

[Rediarmor]

"I didn't attend his funeral, but I sent a letter saying I approved of it"

Winston Churchill.

As Johnnybach pointed out, it was actually Mark Twain- briliant quote though!

 

[W T Allison II]

"Marines we are surrounded. That is a good thing. Now, we know where the enemy is." Gen. Chesty Puller USMC

 

[GICOP]

"Retreat? Hell, we just got here!"

CAPT. LLOYD WILLIAMS, USMC -He was serving as a Company Commander in the 5th Marines WW1

 

[lancer]

"Indians? What Indians?" -- G.A. Custer, June 25, 1876

 

[Buster]

"Retreat? Hell, we just got here!"

CAPT. LLOYD WILLIAMS, USMC -He was serving as a Company Commander in the 5th Marines WW1

"Retreat Hell! We're just attacking in another direction." (Attributed to Major General Oliver P. Smith, USMC, Korea, December 1950.)

B. :smile2:

 

[johnnybach]

"In the Soviet Army, it takes more courage to retreat, than to advance" - Joseph Stalin

 

[lancer]

"I need more cowbell!" -- producer of Blue Oyster Cult's 'Don't Fear the Reaper'

 

[waynepoo]

''Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.''.....Will Rogers.
Wayne.

 

[johnnybach]

Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco! Another cracker from Will Rogers

Sadly, he died in a plane crash in 1935 - but what a wit!

 

[waynepoo]

''In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.''
......Martin Niemoeller, German Luthern Pastor.
Wayne.

 

[johnnybach]

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." - General Norman Schwartzkopf

- who died yesterday (27 December 2012) aged 78.

 

[GICOP]

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: - 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.'
- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

[Buster]

Here's one for all us tedious old anoraks: :wink2:

"I remember Doris Day before she was a virgin."

Oscar Levant

B.

 

[Go for Broke]

My favorite, "We have seen the enemy and he is us". By Pogo newspaper cartoon strip.

 

[waynepoo]

''If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a man and a dog.''....Mark Twain.
Wayne.

 

[Buster]

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend ..... inside a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

B.